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15 December 1854. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Up Riverside via Hubbard Bath, P.M.

  I see again a large flock of what I called buntings on the loth, also another flock surely not buntings, perhaps Fringilla linaria. May they not all be these ? . . . (Journal, 7:83).

Concord, Mass. Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to George Partridge Bradford:

  Tell Mr Chapman I was glad to see Mr Cholmondeley [Thomas Cholmondeley] & we are doing the best we can for him He has lived in Concord & now lives in Boston & threatens to carry Henry Thoreau to England.
(The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4:479)
15 December 1855. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Sometimes when I am going through the Deep Cut, I look up and see half a dozen black crows flitting silently across in front and ominously eying down . . . The snow turned to rain, and this afternoon I walk in it down the railroad and through the woods.
(Journal, 8:50-51)
15 December 1856. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  has dried up almost all the water in the road. It still blows hard at 2 P.M., but it is not cold.

  3 P.M.—To Walden.

  The high northwest wind of this morning, with what of cold we have, has made some of those peculiar raketoothed icicles on the dead twigs, etc., about the edge of the pond at the east end. To produce this phenomenon is required only open water, a high wind, and sufficiently cold weather to freeze the spray . . .

(Journal, 9:181-183)
15 December 1857. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Within a day or two, I saw another partridge in the snare of November 28th, frozen stiff . . . (Journal, 10:223-224).
15 December 1858. Boston, Mass.

Thoreau gives a presentation to the Boston Society of Natural History (Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History for 1856-59).

Ticknor & Fields writes to Thoreau:

Mr. H. D. Thoreau Concord Mass.

  Dear Sir,

  In our last account we credited you capl [cash?] on the balance of copies of Walden, including quite a number of copies then on hand unsold—as the Edition was so nearly out we paid for all at that time. We have never been out of the book but there is very little demand for it so the 16 cops. rqd were in the edition printed. We enclose ck $11 [16? 18?] .25 for 15 cops Concord River sold leaving in our hands 17 cops.

Truly yours
W. D. Ticknor & Co.

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 532-533)
15 December 1859. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  Slight as this snow was, these drifts now extend back four or five feet and as high as the wall, on the north side of the Corner Bridge road . . . I hear from J. [?] Moore that one man in Bedford has got eighteen minks the last fall . . . M. Miles, who came to collect his wood bill to-day, said, when I objected to the small size of his wood, that it was necessary to split wood fine in order to cure it well, that he had found that wood that was more than four inches in diameter would not dry, and moreover a good deal depended on the manner in which it was corded up in the woods . . .
(Journal, 13:28-29)
15 December 1860. Concord, Mass.

A. Bronson Alcott writes in his journal:

  Call on Thoreau, who has returned from Waterbury where, with a severe cold on him, he read his lecture on ‘Autumnal Tints’ to the Lyceum on Wednesday evening (The Journals of Bronson Alcott, 330).
15 February 1838. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The true student will cleave ever to the good, recognizing no Past, no Present; but wherever he emerges from the bosom of time, his course is not with the sun,—eastward or westward,—but ever towards the seashore. Day and night pursues lie his devious way, lingering by how many a Pierian spring, how many an Academus grove, how many a sculptured portico!—all which—spring, grove, and portico—lie not so wide but he may take there conveniently in his way.
(Journal, 1:28-29)
15 February 1839. Concord, Mass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to Thoreau:

My dear Sir

  The dull weather and some inflammation still hold me in the house, and so may cost you some trouble. I wrote Miss [Margaret] Fuller at Groton a week ago that as soon as Saturday (tomorrow) I would endeavor to send her more accurate answers to her request for information in respect to houses likely to be let in Concord. As I know that she & her family must be anxious to learn the facts, as soon as may be, I beg you to help me in procuring the information today, if your engagements will leave you space for this charity.

  My questions are

  1. Is Dr. Gallup’s [William Gallup] house to be vacant shortly, &, if so, what is the rent?

  It belongs, I believe, to Col. Shattuck. [Daniel Shattuck]

  2. What does Mrs Goodwin determine in regard to the house now occupied by Mr. [Francis R.?] Gourgas? Since, if she do not wish to apply for that house, I think that will suit Mrs. F. If it is to be had, what is the rent?

  Col. Shattuck is also the [lessor] of this house.

  3. What is the rent of your Aunts’ [Jane and Maria Thoreau] house, & when will it be rentable?

  4. Pray ask your father if he knows of any other houses in the village that may want tenants in the Spring.

  If sometime this evening you can without much inconvenience give me an answer to these queries, you will greatly oblige your imprisoned friend

R. W. Emerson

(The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 32; The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 7:331-2; MS, “Hosmer’s Grangerized Salt.” Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library)
15 February 1840. Concord, Mass.

Thoreau writes in his journal:

  The good seem to inhale a more generous atmosphere and be bathed in amore precious light (Journal, 1:120).

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