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September 1850. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys for a proposal of a street to the Depot (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 6; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

September 1854.

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

New York, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the National Magazine.

Richmond, Va. Walden is reviewed in the Southern Literary Messenger.

Buffalo, N.Y. Walden is reviewed in the Western Literary Magazine.

September 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau’s father pays off the mortgage on the Texas House:

Know all men by these presents, That I Augustus Tuttle within named, in consideration of the full payment of the debt secured by the within mortgage by the within named John Thoreau the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged do hereby release & quit-claim unto the said Thoreau the lands herein described and hold said Thoreau free & acquit from all & every claim that I may have upon him by virtue of the within deed of Mortgagery the note secured thereby. Executed in presence of Geo. M. Brooks Middlesex ss Sept., 1855. Then personally appeared Augustus Tuttle and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and deed. Before me Geo. M. Brooks, Jus. of Peace Cambridge, Feb. 11, 1856. Rec’d & Recorded by Cabel Hayden, Reg.
(Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 191 (Spring 1990):5-6)
September 1861.

Sophia Thoreau later recalls this time at Walden Pond:

  Associations have rendered the spot so entirely sacred to me, that the music and dancing, swinging and tilting seemed like profanity almost. An overwhelming sense of my great loss saddened me, and I felt that only the waters sympathized in my bereavement, for there seemed in all that throng no heart nor eye to appreciate the purity and beauty of nature. The lover of Walden has indeed departed. I recalled my last day spent there with Henry —
“Sweet September Day, so calm, so cool, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.”
While I sat sketching, Henry gathered grapes from a vine, dropping its fruit into the clear waters which gently laved its roots.
(Little-Known Sisters of Well-Known Men, 269)
sometime between 1 September 1834 and 27 June 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau writes a note to Oliver Sparhawk:

Sir

  The occupants of Hollis 32 would like to have that room painted and whitewashed, also if possible to have a new hearth put in

yours respectfully
Thoreau & Richardson

(MS, Walden Woods Project Collection at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods)
Image of letter to Oliver Sparhawk from Thoreau and James Richardson
From the Walden Woods Project Collection. Not to be reproduced without permission.
Sometime between 17 and 22 December 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to James Russell Lowell on 23 January 1858:

  The most available paper which I have is an account of an excursion into the Maine woods in ’53; the subjects of which are the Moose, the Pine Tree & the Indian. Mr. [Ralph Waldo] Emerson could tell you about it, for I remember reading it to his family, after having read it as a lecture to my townsmen.
(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 504)
Spring 1826. Concord, Mass.

The Thoreau family moves from the “Brick House” to the “Davis’s House” on Main Street in Concord, next to the home of Samuel Hoar. They stay there until 7 May 1827 (Journal, 8:65; The Life of Henry David Thoreau, 36).

Spring 1835. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau’s family moves to his aunt Maria’s house (Journal, 8:65).

Spring 1839. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau and his brother John build a boat, which they name “Musketaquid,” for a trip on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (The Days of Henry Thoreau, 88).

Spring 1846. Walden Pond.

Thoreau expands the first draft of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers with passages from his journal, lectures, and essays “Sir Walter Raleigh” and “The Service,” and combines two “Thursday” chapters (Revising Mythologies, 254).

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