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October 1843.

Thoreau’s “Ethnical Scriptures: Chinese Four Books” and “A Winter’s Walk” appear in the fourteenth issue of the Dial (Dial (1961), 4:205-226).

Thoreau’s “The Landlord” is published in the United States Magazine, and Democratic Review.

Staten Island, N.Y. Thoreau drafts the Agiocochook section of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Revising Mythologies, 254).

October 1848.

“The Ascent of Ktaadn,” Thoreau’s fourth of five installments of “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,” appears in Sartain’s Union Magazine.

October 1849. Boston, Mass.

The Universalist Quarterly reviews of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:

  [It is] interspersed with inexcusable crudities, with proofs of carelessness and lack of healthy moral discrimination, with contempt for the things commonly esteemed holy, with reflections which may shock every pious Christian.
Boston, Mass. Pictorial National Library has a review of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:

  Henry D. Thoreau, a young philosopher, whose primitive habits of living have attracted some attention in the vicinity of Concord, has a volume of 413 pages, entitled A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. The incidents narrated are those of a cruise down the Concord River, to its junction with the Merrimack, up that river to Hookset, and thence on foot to Concord N.H. The voyage was accomplished in a boat of home manufacture, equipped with oars, sails, &c., and loaded with provisions, cooking utensils, and a tent in which to encamp at night.

Cornelius Conway Felton writes a review of Henry William Herbert’s translation of Prometheus of Aeschylus in the North American Review, comparing it with that of his former pupil, Thoreau.

October 1854.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes to Daniel Foster (MS, Houghton Library?).

New York, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in Putnam’s Monthly Magazine.

Boston, Mass. Walden is reviewed in the North American Review.

Philadelphia, Penn. Walden is reviewed in Godley’s Magazine and Lady’s Book.

Philadelphia, Penn. Walden is reviewed in Peterson’s Magazine.

October 1862.

Thoreau’s “Autumnal Tints” is published in the Atlantic Monthly (Atlantic Monthly, vol. 10, no. 60 (October 1862):385-402).

October or November 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau drafts a letter to H.G.O. Blake:

  the brute beasts do—or of steadiness & solidity that the rocks do. Just so hollow & ineffectual for the most part is our ordinary conversation—Surface meets surface.

  When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip. We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor and for the most part the only difference between us and our fellow is that he has seen the paper or been out to tea & we have not. But the London Times even is not one of the muses. It is no better when poet laureates writes to you there. When a man’s inward life fails, he begins to go more constantly & desperately to the post office, and despatches couriers to the other side of the globe; and so again he gains the whole world & loses his own soul.

  It appears that you think yourself reestablished by this time & that your leisure was again hindered.

  I like yr keeping at yr “noble task.”

Yours

Henry D Thoreau

(Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 187-188)
September 1818. Concord, Mass.

Henry D. Thoreau is taught to walk by his paternal aunt Sarah (The Days of Henry Thoreau, 11; Journal, 8:65).

September 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau writes an essay on the prompt “The comparative moral policy of severe and mild punishments” (Early Essays and Miscellanies, 21-23).

September 1848.

“Boating on the Lakes,” Thoreau’s third of five installments of “Ktaadn and the Maine Woods,” appears in Sartain’s Union Magazine.

September 1849.

Though the authorship is mistaken, Godey’s Magazine and Lady’s Book reviews A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers:

  Those who have read “Margaret Smith’s Journal” will be at no loss in settling the authorship of this clever and interesting work. Mr. Whittier touches all his themes with the true poet’s wand; all show forms of beauty and gleams of light that, like the sunbeams on the far-off mountain, make the cold and rugged landscape appear soft and charming. It is just the book to read in the idleness of summer, when wishing to enjoy the pleasures of journeying, without the inconvenience which the actual packing up and going off in hot steamboats and dusty cars occasion. Read it and see.

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