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14 February 1852. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  3 P.M.—Walden road to pond, thence to Cliffs . . . Met Joshua Brown returning from the pond (Walden) without having caught a fish. Has had no luck there this winter, he thinks because of the woodcutters falling trees on the ice . . .
(Journal, 3:301-304)
14 February 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—Down railroad . . .

  The telegraph resounds at every post . . . In Stow’s wood, by the Deep Cut, hear the gnah gnah of the white-breasted, black-capped nuthatch . . .

  F. Brown, who has been chasing a white rabbit this afternoon with a dog, says that they do not run off far,—often play round within the same swamp only, if it is large, and return to where they were started. Spoke of it as something unusual that one ran off so far that he could not hear the dogs, but he returned and was shot near where he started. He does not see their forms, nor marks where they have been feeding.

(Journal, 6:121-123)
14 February 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau delivered a slightly revised version of “What Shall It Profit” before the Concord Lyceum on Wednesday evening.

Thoreau also writes in his journal:

  Aunt Louisa says that her cousin Nahum Jones, son to that Nathan whom her mother and sisters visited with her down east, carried a cat to the West Indies, sold his vessel there; and though the same vessel did not return, and he came back in another vessel without the cat, the cat got home to Gouldsboro somehow, unaccountably, about the same time that he did. Captain Woodard told her that he carried the same cat three times round the world.
(Journal, 7:185-186)
14 February 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Still colder this morning, -7º at 8.30 A.M.

  P.M.—To Walden . . .

  I can now walk on the crust in every direction at the Andromeda Swamp; can run and stamp without danger of breaking through . . .

(Journal, 8:179-182)
14 February 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Higginson told me yesterday of a large tract near Fayal and near Pico (Mountain), covered with the reindeer (?) (as I suggested and he assented) lichens, very remarkable and desolate, extending for miles . . .

  It is a fine, somewhat springlike day. The ice is softening so that skates begin to cut in, and numerous caterpillars are now crawling about on the ice and snow . . .

(Journal, 9:254-255)
14 February 1858. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  About one inch of snow falls (Journal, 10:283).
14 February 1859. Concord, Mass.
Thoreau writes in his journal:

  P.M.—On ice up Assabet to railroad.

  The ice-belt which I still see along the steep bank of the Assabet is now some three weeks old, and though it was then six or eight inches thick, it is now only two or three, or much less, in many places nearly wasted away, and those once horizontal tables are often fallen aslant, like shields pierced with many holes . . .

(Journal, 11:446-448)
14 February 1860. Bedford, Mass.

Thoreau lectures on “Wild Apples” for the Bedford Lyceum (“Wild Apples“).

14 January 1842.

Boston, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his brother William:

We are all well at home all saddened by a tragedy that befel our neighboring Thoreau family this week in the death of John Thoreau Jr by lockjaw. He was Henry’s elder brother. (The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 3:3).

Concord, Mass. The Concord Freeman reports the death of John Thoreau Jr.:

  In this town, on Tuesday last, suddenly of the lock jaw, Mr JOHN THOREAU, Jr., aged 27 (Concord Freeman, 14 January 1842:3).
14 January 1847. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes to Evert A. Duyckinck:

Dear Sir—
  Will you please inform Mr. [John] Wiley that I have concluded to wait a fortnight for his answer. As I should like to make some corrections in the Mss. in the meanwhile, I will thank you if you will send it to be by Harden’s express to Boston and by Adams’ to Concord and I will return it in ten days.
Yrs&c.,
Henry David Thoreau

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 173)

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