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13 June 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Worcester. See the common iris in meadow in Acton. Brown [Theophilus Brown] shows me from his window the word “guano” written on the grass in a field near the hospital, say three quarters of a mile distant . . .
(Journal, 8:377-378)
13 June 1857. Plymouth, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I see large mosses on the beach, crimson and lighter, already spread on the sand. See children going a-flagging and returning with large bundles, for the sake of the inmost tender blade. They go miles for them here (Journal, 9:415).
13 June 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Louring all day.

  P.M.—To Ledum Swamp . . .

  I see a song sparrow’s nest here in a little spruce just by the mouth of the ditch. It rests on the thick branches fifteen inches from the ground, firmly made of coarse sedge without, lined with finer, and then a little hair, small within,—a very thick, firm, and portable nest, an inverted cone;—four eggs . . .

(Journal, 10:492-493)
13 June 1859.

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Boston. My rail’s egg of June 1st looks like that of the Virginia rail in the Boston collection . . . (Journal, 12:201-202).

Boston, Mass. Thoreau checks out Flora of the state of New York, volume 2 by John Torrey from the Boston Society of Natural History (Emerson Society Quarterly 24 (March 1952):26).

13 June 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  2 P.M. To M. Miles’s via Clamshell.

  I first heard that tchuck soundas of fish striking a padon the 2d of June, when there were very few weeds in the river, and have since heard it repeatedly . . .

  I noticed as I sat in my boat by the riverside last evening [12 June.], half an hour after sunset, a very low and local, yet dense, fog close to the shore . . . a foot high by three or four wide for several rods.

(Journal, 13:349-351)
13 June 1861. Lake Calhoun, Minn.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Spermophilus eating oats in horse-dung. See a scum on the smooth surface of the lake 3 or 4 feet from shore, the color of the sand of the shore, like pollen & lint, which I took it to be. Taking some up in my hand, I was surprised to find it the sand of the shore, sometimes pretty large grains 1/10 inch diameter—but most 1/20 or less. Some dark brown, some white or yellowish. Some minute but perfectly regular oval pebbles of white quartz. I suppose that the water rises gently, lifts up a layer of sand where it is slightly cemented by some glutinous matter, for I felt a slight stickiness on my hand after the (gravel or) sand was shaken off.
(Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, 18)
13 March 1837. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau checks out The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, volume 1 by Edward Gibbon, The Italian sketchbook by Henry Theodore Tuckerman, and Reliques of ancient English poetry, volume 2 edited by Thomas Percy from the library of the Institute of 1770.

(The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:86)

Thoreau also checks out The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, volume 1 edited by Alexander Chalmers from Harvard College Library (Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence, 288).

13 March 1841. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  There is a sort of homely truth and naturalness in some books, which is very rare to find, and yet looks quite cheap. There may be nothing lofty in the sentiment, or polished in the expression, but it is careless, countrified talk. The scholar rarely writes as well as the farmer talks.
(Journal, 1:237-239)
13 March 1842. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The sad memory of departed friends is soon incrusted over with sublime and pleasing thoughts, as their monuments are overgrown with moss. Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound (Journal, 1:328).
13 March 1846. Walden Pond.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The song sparrow and blackbird heard to-day. The snow going off. The ice in the pond one foot thick (Journal, 1:487-488).

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