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13 November 1851. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  To Fair Haven Hill.

  A cold and dark afternoon, the sun being behind clouds in the west . . .

  The mountains are of an uncommonly dark blue . . .

  I see snow on the Peterboro hills, reflecting the sun . . .

  Just spent a couple of hours (eight to ten) with Miss Mary Emerson at Holbrook’s . . .

(Journal, 3:110-115)

Thoreau writes in his journal on 14 November:

  I met a man yesterday afternoon in the road who behaved as if he was deaf, and I talked with him in the cold in a loud tone for fifteen minutes, but that uncertainty about his ears, and the necessity I felt to talk loudly, took off the fine edge of what I had to say and prevented my saying anything satisfactory.
(Journal, 3:116)
13 November 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Saturday. To Andromeda Ponds. Andromeda is a dull reddish brown, like oak leaves. Saw a flock of little passenger birds by Walden, busily pecking at the white birch catkins . . . (Journal, 4:412).
13 November 1853. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Rain all day (Journal, 5:500).
13 November 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  It has rained hard the 11th, 12th, and 13th, and the river is at last decidedly rising . . . (Journal, 7:71).

Concord, Mass. Thoreau writes to Abbé Adrien Rouquette in reply to his letter of 1 November:

Dear Sir

  I have just received your letter and the 3 works which accompanied it—and I make haste to send you a copy of “A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers”—in the same mail with this. I thank you heartily for the interest which you express in my Walden—and also for the gift of your works. I have not had time to peruse [?] the books attentively but I am

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 349)

Liverpool, England. Nathaniel Hawthorne writes to Monckton Milnes:

  Walden and Concord River are by a very remarkable man; but I hardly hope you will read his books, unless for the observation of nature contained in them which is wonderfully accurate. I sometimes fancy it a characteristic of American books, that it generally requires an effort to read them; there is hardly ever one that carries the reader away with it, and few that a man of weak resolution can get to the end of. Please do not quote this as my opinion.
(Thoreau Society Bulletin, no. 121 (Fall 1972):7; MS, Norman Holmes Pearson collection, Yale University)
13 November 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  In mid-forenoon (10.45), seventy or eighty geese, in three harrows successively smaller, flying southwest—pretty well west—over the house . . .

  P.M.—To Cardinal Shore. Going over Swamp Bridge Brook at 3 P.M., I saw in the pond by the roadside, a few rods before me, the sun shining bright, a mink swimming, the whole length of his back out . . .

(Journal, 8:22-23)
13 November 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  I find that I can see the sun set from almost any hill in Concord, and some within the confines of the neighboring towns, and though this takes place at just about 5 P.M., when the cows come in, get to the post-office by the time the mail is distributed. See the sun rise or set if possible each day. Let that be your pill. How speedily the night comes on now! There is duskiness in the afternoon light before you are aware of it, the cows have gathered about the bars, waiting to be let out, and, in twenty minutes, candles gleam from distant windows, and the walk for this day is ended . . .
(Journal, 10:175-176)
13 November 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  8.30 A.M.—To Hill . . .

  Last night was quite cold, and the ground is white with frost. Thus gradually, but steadily, winter approaches . . .

  As I stand on the hill at 9 A.M., it looks like snow; the sky is overcast; smokes go up thickly from the village, answering to the frost in the chinks; and there is a remarkable stillness, as if it were earlier, the effect of the colder weather merely, as it were stiffening things . . .

(Journal, 11:317-319)
13 November 1860. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau surveys a house lot on Monument Street for Daniel Shattuck (A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free Public Library, 11; Henry David Thoreau papers. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

Thoreau also writes in his journal:

  P.M.—To Mt. Misery . . .

  J. Baker’s pitch pines south of upper wood-path north of his house abundantly confirm the rule of young white pines under pitch pines. That fine young white pine wood west of this is partly of these which were left when the pitch pines were cut.

  Baker’s hill between farm and Pleasant Meadow, oak (apparently a black), diameter twenty-six, seventyone rings. The stumps here were cut some five or six years ago and have fifty to sixty rings . . .

(Journal, 14:239-241)
13 November 1861. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau drafts a letter to W. and C. H. Smith:

Messrs W & C H Smith

  I received on the 8th inst your draft in payment for plumbago sent to you Oct 23d I forgot to deduct the interest, but when I remarked it supposed that you would correct the mistake before I could—for I had agreed to make the deduction.

  But the case is now altered for if I have to pay for the draft (which in any other conditions are not to be sent without cost) I think that you should not expect me to make any further deduction for interest

Yours truly
Henry D. Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 629; MS, Abernethy Library, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.)
13 October 1835. Cambridge, Mass.

Thoreau attends a meeting of the Institute of 1770 in which the topic “Has the form of government of the U. S. A. a greater appearance of stability than any other?” is debated (The Transcendentalists and Minerva, 1:83).

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