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After I lectured here before, this winter, I heard that some of my townsmen had expected of me some account of my life at the pond. This I will endeavor to give to-night.
I know a robust and hearty mother who thinks that her son, who died abroad, came to his end by living too low, as she had since learned that he drank only water. Men are not inclined to leave off hanging men to-day, though they will be to-morrow. I heard of a family in Concord this winter which would have starved, if it had not been for potatoes---and tea and coffee.
It has not been my design to live cheaply, but only to live as I could, not devoting much time to getting a living. I made the most of what means were already got.
To determine the character of our life and how adequate it is to its occasion, just try it by any test, as for instance that this same sun is seen in Europe and in 486 America at the same time, that these same stars are visible in twenty-four hours to two thirds the inhabitants of the globe, and who knows how many and various inhabitants of the universe. What farmer in his field lives according even to this somewhat trivial material fact.
I just looked up at a fine twinkling star and thought that a voyager whom I know, now many days' sail from this coast, might possibly be looking up at that same star with me. The stars are the apexes of what triangles! There is always the possibility---the possibility, I say---of being all, or remaining a particle, in the universe.
In these days and in this country, a few implements, as the axe, shovel, etc., and, to the studious, light and stationery and access to a few books, will rank next to necessaries, but can all be obtained at a very trifling cost. Under the head of clothing is to be ranked bedding, or night-clothes.
We are very anxious to keep the animal heat in us. What pains we take with our beds! robbing the nests of birds and their breasts, this shelter within a shelter, as the mole has a bed of leaves and grass at the end of its burrow.
In the summer I caught fish occasionally in the pond, but since September have not missed them.
In a man or his work, over all special excellence or failure, prevails the general authority or value. 487
Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it. If he had known so much as this, he would never have earned it.
All matter, indeed, is capable of entertaining thought.
The complete subjugation of the body to the mind prophesies the sovereignty of the latter over the whole of nature. The instincts are to a certain extent a sort of independent nobility, of equal date with the mind, or crown,---ancient dukes and princes of the regal blood. They are perhaps the mind of our ancestors subsided in us, the experience of the race.
A small sum would really do much good, if the donor spent himself with it and did not merely relinquish it to some distant society whose managers do the good or the evil with it. How much might be done for this town with a hundred dollars! I could provide a select course of lectures for the summer or winter with that sum, which would be an incalculable benefit to every inhabitant. With a thousand dollars I could purchase for this town a more complete and select library than exists in the State out of Cambridge and Boston, perhaps a more available one than any. Men sit palsied and helpless by the side of their buried treasures.[508]
After all those who do most good with money, do it with the least, because they can do better than to acquire it.
March 13, 1846. The song sparrow and blackbird 488 heard to-day. The snow going off. The ice in the pond one foot thick.
Men talk much of coperation nowadays, of working together to some worthy end; but what little coperation there is, is as if it were not, being a simple result of which the means are hidden, a harmony inaudible to men. If a man has faith, he will coperate with equal faith everywhere. If he has not faith he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to. To coperate thoroughly implies to get your living together. I heard it proposed lately that two young men should travel together over the world, the one earning his means as he went, the other carrying a bill of exchange in his pocket. It was easy to see that they could not long be companions, or coperate, since one would not operate at all. They would part company at the first and most interesting crisis in their adventures.
END OF VOLUME I
The Riverside Press
H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY
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MASSACHUSETTS
[1] In many cases the punctuation seems to be absolutely without significance; as if the writer had simply fallen into the habit of dropping dashes in an absent-minded way as he passed along. The following examples (the longest an extreme case) will show what is meant:---
"I heard from time to time---a new note."
"The Equisetum sylvaticum---there is now of a reddish cast."
"It is very difficult---to find a suitable place to camp near the road---affording---water---a good---prospect and retirement."
"Another alighted near---by---and a third a little further off."
[2] Under date of June 9, 1854, we find him writing: "I should like to know the birds of the woods better. What birds inhabit our woods? I hear their various notes ringing through them. What musicians compose our woodland quire? They must be forever strange and interesting to me." Even the glass that he finally bought was not an opera-glass, but a "spy-glass" (monocular) so called, and must have been of comparatively little help in the identification of woodland species.
[3] Once he saw it (August 3, 1858), and then it proved to be a Maryland yellow-throat. At other times it was almost certainly an oven-bird.
[4] [Week, p. 375; Riv. 464.]
[5] [Week, p. 314; Riv. 390.]
[6] [Week, p. 352; Riv. 435, 436.]
[7] [Week, p. 348; Riv. 430.]
[8] [Week, p. 383; Riv. 473.]
[9] [Week, p. 417; Riv. 515.]
[10] [Week, p. 93; Riv. 116. Excursions, p. 138; Riv. 169.]
[11] [Week, p. 373; Riv. 461.]
[12] [Excursions, pp. 126, 127; Riv. 155, 156.]
[13] [Week, pp. 347, 348; Riv. 429, 430.]
[14] [Later.] We must consider war and slavery, with many other institutions and even the best existing governments, notwithstanding their apparent advantages, as the abortive rudiments of nobler institutions such as distinguish man in his savage and half-civilized state.
[15] [Excursions, pp. 127, 128; Riv. 157.]
[16] [Week, p. 186; Riv. 231. The Service, Boston, 1902, p. 21]
[17] [A fanciful derivation of the word "Saxons"?]
[18] [Excursions, p. 128; Riv. 158.]
[19] [Excursions, p. 128; Riv. 157, 158.]
[20] [Familiar Letters, Sept. 8, 1841.]
[21] [Week, p. 163; Riv. 203.]
[22] [Excursions, p. 141; Riv. 173.]
[23] [Excursions, p. 127; Riv. 156.]
[24] [Excursions, p. 112; Riv. 138.]
[25] [Week, pp. 347, 348; Riv. 429-431.]
[26] [Week, p. 66; Riv. 82, 83.]
[27] [Week, p. 66; Riv. 83.]
[28] [Week, p. 96; Riv. 119, 120.]
[29] [Week, p. 65; Riv. 81.]
[30] [Week, p. 96; Riv. 120.]
[31] ["Carlyleish" is written in the margin against this passage.]
[32] [The word seems to be a new one, but its meaning is clear.]
[33] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 161.]
[34] [Excursions, p. 108; Riv. 133.]
[35] [Week, p. 78; Riv. 97.]
[36] [Week, pp. 94, 95; Riv. 117, 119.]
[37] [Week, p. 79; Riv. 98, 99. The Service, p. 4.]
[38] [Week, pp. 9-11; Riv. 11, 13.]
[39] [Week, p. 96; Riv. 120.]
[40] [Week, p. 319; Riv. 395.]
[41] [See Week, p. 95 (Riv. 118), where the passages referred to appear in translation.]
[42] [Excursions, pp. 181, 182; Riv. 221, 222.]
[43] [All but the last stanza, somewhat revised and without title, appears in Excursions, pp. 176, 177; Riv. 215, 216.]
[44] [Cf. Week, pp. 417-420; Riv. 515-518.]
[45] [Excursions, p. 108; Riv. 133. "Drinking" for "Sipping" in l. 3 is the only change.]
[46] [Excursions, pp. 109, 110; Riv. 135.]
[47] [Week, p. 244; Riv. 302. Lines 2 and 3 are altered.]
[48] [Excursions, p. 112; Riv. 138.]
[49] [Excursions, and Poems, pp. 120 and 409; Excursions, Riv. 147.]
[50] [Week, p. 180; Riv. 224.]
[51] [Week, pp. 364, 365; Riv. 451, 452.]
[52] [This poem will be found in Excursions, and Poems, p. 417, under the title "Ding Dong," somewhat revised and without the last stanza.]
[53] [Excursions, p. 109; Riv. 134.]
[54] [Walden, p. 8; Riv. 14, 15.]
[55] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 278; Misc., Riv. 36, 37. The Service, pp. 5, 6.]
[56] [Week, pp. 276, 277; Riv. 343, 344.]
[57] [Week, p. 188; Riv. 234.]
[58] [Week, p. 188; Riv. 234.]
[59] [Week, p. 200; Riv. 248.]
[60] [Week, pp. 302, 303; Riv. 375, 376.]
[61] [Week, p. 38; Riv. 47.]
[62] [Week, p. 38; Riv. 47.]
[63] [Week, p. 39; Riv. 48.]
[64] [Week, p. 39; Riv. 48, 49.]
[65] [Week, p. 39; Riv. 49.]
[66] [Week, p. 43; Riv. 54.]
[67] [Week, p. 118; Riv. 147.]
[68] [Week, p. 179; Riv. 222.]
[69] [Week, p. 248; Riv. 307.]
[70] [Week, p. 309; Riv. 383.]
[71] [See Week, pp. 318-322; Riv. 394-399.]
[72] [The original name of Woodstock, N. H.]
[73] [See Week, pp. 335-353; Riv. 414-437.]
[74] [See Week, pp. 356-420; Riv. 442-518.]
[75] [Week, pp. 110, 111; Riv. 137.]
[76] [Week, p. 110; Riv. 137.]
[77] [Excursions, p. 107; Riv. 132.]
[78] [Excursions, p. 107; Riv. 131, 132.]
[79] [This comes at the end of the first book of Journal transcripts (1837-39) and follows immediately a bit of verse dated Oct. 16, 1838, which has been included in its proper chronological place.]
[80] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 277: Misc., Riv. 35. The Service, p. 1.]
[81] [Excursions, p. 107; Riv. 132.]
[82] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 277; Misc., Riv. 35. The Service, p. 1.]
[83] [Week, p. 376; Riv. 465. The Service, pp. 8, 9.]
[84] [Plutarch's Morals, "Roman Questions," lxviii.]
[85] [The Service, p. 9.]
[86] [The Service, p. 12.]
[87] [A pencil interlineation in this paragraph is as follows:] The soldier is the degenerate hero, as the priest is the degenerate saint; and the soldier and the priest are related as the hero and [the] saint. The one's virtue is bravery, the other's bravery virtue. Mankind still pay to the soldier the honors due only to the hero. They delight to do him honor. He is adorned with silver and gold and the colors of the rainbow, invested with outward splendor; music is for him especially, and his life is a holiday.
[88] [The Service, p. 11.]
[89] [Week, p. 183; Riv. 228.]
[90] [The Service, p. 11.]
[91] [The Service, p. 12.]
[92] [Week, p. 183; Riv. 228.]
[93] [Week, p. 183; Riv. 227. The Service, p. 13.]
[94] [Week, p. 183; Riv. 228. The Service, p. 14.]
[95] [The Service, p. 14. See also p. 151 of this volume.]
[96] [The Service, p. 15.] [In pencil on a fly-leaf of the Journal:] The coward substitutes for this thrilling sphere music a universal wail, for this melodious chant a nasal cant, and but whistles to keep his courage up. He blows a feeble blast of slender melody and can compel his neighborhood only into a partial concord with himself, because nature has but little sympathy with such a soul. Hence he hears no accordant note in the universe, and is a coward, or consciously outcast and deserted man. But the brave man, without drum or trumpet, compels concord everywhere by the universality and tunefulness of his soul.
[97] [The Service, p. 13.]
[98] [Week, pp. 183, 184; Riv. 228. The Service, p. 13. The quotation is from Plutarch's Morals, "Of Superstition."]
[99] [The Service, pp. 7, 8. See p. 154 of this volume.]
[100] [The Service, pp. 23, 24.]
[101] [Cf. Week, pp. 274-307; Riv. 341-381.]
[102] [Excursions, p. 108; Riv. 133.]
[103] [Stanzas 8, 10, 11, 12, with revision, Week, p. 255; Riv. 317. Stanzas 2-5, 9, 13, Familiar Letters, Introduction.]
[104] [Week, p. 93; Riv. 116.]
[105] [Week, p. 93; Riv. 116.]
[106] [Week, p. 132; Riv. 164.]
[107] [Week, p. 132; Riv. 165.]
[108] [The criticism was not transcribed here. The title was inserted doubtless as a memorandum and to record the date of its composition. See Week, p. 327; Riv. 405.]
[109] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 279; Misc., Riv. 37.]
[110] [The Service, p. 20.]
[111] [Week, p. 351; Riv. 434.]
[112] [Week, p. 351; Riv. 434. A sheet with specimens of this familiar school-boy amusement is slipped into one of the manuscript Journal volumes.]
[113] [Excursions, p. 118; Riv. 146.]
[114] [Week, p. 406; Riv. 501.]
[115] [Excursions, p. 114; Riv. 141.]
[116] [Excursions, pp. 120, 121; Riv. 148, 149.]
[118] [Week, p. 300; Riv. 373.]
[119] [Excursions, p. 114; Riv. 140.]
[120] [Excursions, pp. 119, 120; Riv. 147, 148.]
[121] [Stanzas 3, 2, and 5, in this order, with slight alterations, are printed in Week, p. 366 (Riv. 453), under the title of "The Poet's Delay."]
[122] [Walden, p. 352; Riv. 493.]
[123] [Week, p. 383; Riv. 474.]
[124] [The Service, p. 15.]
[125] [Week, p. 12; Riv. 15.]
[126] [Week, p. 17; Riv. 21.]
[127] [T. finally sold this boat to Hawthorne, who changed the name from Musketaquid to Pond-Lily; and later it passed into Channing's hands. See Hawthorne's American Note-Books, Riv. pp. 318-321, and Channing, p. 13.]
[128] [Week, pp. 12, 13; Riv. 15-17.]
[129] [Week, p. 19; Riv. 24.]
[130] [Week, p. 37; Riv. 47.]
[131] [Week, p. 17; Riv. 21.]
[132] [Week, p. 250; Riv. 310, 311.]
[133] [This was Thoreau's first journal, from which he made the transcripts which are now the only representatives of his early diarizing. See p. 188, where Journal of 396 pages ends.]
[134] [Week, p. 386; Riv. 476.]
[135] [Wordsworth, incorrectly quoted. The line reads,---
"Following his plough, along the mountain-side."]
[136] [Week, pp. 44, 45; Riv. 56.]
[137] [Week, pp. 37, 38; Riv. 47.]
[138] [Week, p. 38; Riv. 47, 48.]
[139] [Week, pp. 319, 320; Riv. 395, 396.]
[140] [Week, p. 45; Riv. 56, 57.]
[141] [The Service, p. 6.]
[142] [Week, p. 280; Riv. 347.]
[143] [Week, p. 163; Riv. 203.]
[144] [Week, p. 45; Riv. 57.]
[145] [The Service, p. 14.]
[146] [Week, p. 181; Riv. 224, 225.]
[147] [Week, pp. 39, 40; Riv. 49, 50.]
[148] [Week, p. 304; Riv. 378.]
[149] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 277; Misc., Riv. 35.]
[150] [The Service, p. 2.]
[151] [The Service, p. 13.]
[152] [The Service, p. 24.]
[153] [Week, pp. 93, 94; Riv. 116, 117.]
[157] [The Service, p. 12.]
[158] [Week, pp. 384, 385; Riv. 475.]
[159] [The Service, pp. 15, 16.]
[160] [The Service, p. 23.]
[161] [The Service, p. 23.]
[162] [The Service, p. 23.]
[163] [The Service, p. 23.]
[164] [The Service, p. 23.]
[165] [The Service, pp. 25, 26.]
[166] [The Service, pp. 21, 22.]
[167] [The Service, p. 22.]
[168] [The Service, p. 14.]
[169] [The Service, p. 12.]
[170] I have heard a strain of music issuing from a soldiers' camp in the dawn, which sounded like the morning hymn of creation. The birches rustling in the breeze and the slumberous breathing of the crickets seemed to hush their murmuring to attend to it. [Written in pencil on a fly-leaf of the Journal.]
[171] [The Service, p. 7. Mr. Sanborn, in a note to this passage, says, "The allusion here is to the extraordinary sight of the gravest citizens of Concord, in that summer [1840], ... turning out to roll a huge ball, emblematic of the popular movement against President Van Buren, from the battle-ground of Concord to that of Bunker Hill, singing as they rolled:---
'It is the Ball a-rolling on
For Tippecanoe and Tyler too.'"]
[172] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 161.]
[173] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 160, 161.]
[174] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 161.]
[175] [Excursions, p. 119; Riv. 146.]
[176] [The Service, p. 13.]
[177] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 277; Misc., Riv. 36.]
[178] [The Service, pp. 3, 4.]
[179] [Week, p. 265; Riv. 329.]
[180] [Week, p. 79; Riv. 99. The Service, p. 5.]
[181] [Week, p. 301; Riv. 374.]
[182] [The Service, p. 24.]
[183] [The Service, p. 26.]
[184] [The Service, p. 23.]
[185] [The Service, p. 10.]
[186] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 277; Misc., Riv. 36. The Service, p. 3.]
[187] [The Service, p. 3.]
[188] [Week, p. 407; Riv. 502. The Service, p. 17.]
[189] [The Service, p. 17.]
[190] [Week, p. 407; Riv. 502. The Service, p. 17.]
[191] [The Service, p. 9.]
[192] [The last two sentences appear also in pencil on a fly-leaf, preceded by, "It sleeps securely within its camp, not even dreaming of a foe."]
[193] [Week, p. 230; Riv. 285.]
[194] [Week, p. 229; Riv. 284, 285.]
[195] [Week, p. 229; Riv. 285. See also p. 124 of this volume.]
[196] [Excursions, p. 106; Riv. 131.]
[197] [See Excursions, p. 110; Riv. 135.]
[198] [Week, p. 315; Riv. 390, 391. See also below.]
[199] [See above.]
[200] [Week, p. 304; Riv. 377, 378. See also p. 205.]
[201] Excursions, p. 117; Riv. 144.
[202] [Excursions, p. 117; Riv. 144.]
[203] [Excursions, pp. 117, 118; Riv. 144, 145.]
[204] [Week, p. 184; Riv. 228.]
[205] [See Emerson's Journal (1841), quoted in E. W. Emerson's Emerson in Concord, p. 99.]
[206] [Walden, p. 28; Riv. 43.]
[207] [Week, p. 415; Riv. 512.]
[208] [See p. 214,---bronchitis!]
[209] [Excursions, p. 167; Riv. 203, 204.]
[210] [Excursions, p. 173; Riv. 211.]
[211] [Week, p. 289; Riv. 359.]
[213] [Week, p. 236; Riv. 293.]
[214] [Week, p. 50; Riv. 63.]
[215] [Week, p. 305; Riv. 379.]
[216] [Week, p. 406; Riv. 501.]
[217] [Excursions, p. 182; Riv. 222.]
[218] [Week, p. 288; Riv. 358.]
[219] [See his sister's account of his last sickness in Sanborn's Thoreau, pp. 310-313.]
[220] [Week, p. 106; Riv. 132.]
[221] [Week, p. 157; Riv. 195.]
[222] [Excursions, p. 182; Riv. 223.]
[223] [See Week, p. 45; Riv. 57.]
[224] [Week, p. 40; Riv. 50.]
[225] [An interpretation of Emerson's poem. The numbers refer to the stanzas.]
[226] [The italics are Thoreau's.]
[227] [Week, pp. 111, 112; Riv. 138-140.]
[228] [Week, p. 108; Riv. 134.]
[229] [Week, p. 79; Riv. 98.]
[230] [Week, p. 283; Riv. 351.]
[232] [Walden, p. 25; Riv. 39.]
[233] [Week, p. 54; Riv. 67, 68.]
[234] [See Week, p. 131; Riv. 163.]
[235] [Week, p. 131; Riv. 163.]
[236] [Week, p. 129; Riv. 161.]
[237] [Week, pp. 318, 319; Riv. 395. Tree sparrow = chipping sparrow? The "hair-bird" of Week, p. 317 (Riv. 393), is called tree sparrow in the commonplace-book referred to on p. 438.]
[238] [Field sparrow, Nuttall's Fringilla juncorum. Nuttall gives both field sparrow and rush sparrow as its vernacular names.]
[239] [Week, p. 336; Riv. 416.]
[240] [Week, p. 336; Riv. 416.]
[241] [Week, p. 54; Riv. 67.]
[242] [In Excursions, p. 135 (Riv. 165), these lines are printed as part of a poem beginning, "With frontier strength ye stand your ground." The poem appears also, in extended form, in Week, pp. 170-173; Riv. 212-215.]
[243] [Week, p. 132; Riv. 164.]
[244] [Week, p. 132; Riv. 164.]
[245] [Excursions, p. 133; Riv. 163.]
[246] [This poem appears in Week, p. 50 (Riv. 62), with some variations and without title.]
[247] [Walden, p. 354; Riv. 496.]
[248] [See Week, p. 154; Riv. 192.]
[249] [Week, p. 140; Riv. 174, 175.]
[251] [Week, p. 155; Riv. 193.]
[252] [Week, p. 12; Riv. 15.]
[253] [Week, p. 394; Riv. 486.]
[254] [Week, p. 155; Riv. 193.]
[255] [Week, p. 109; Riv. 136.]
[256] [Week, p. 157; Riv. 195, 196.]
[257] [Week, p. 157; Riv. 195.]
[258] [Week, pp. 161-163; Riv. 200-204.]
[259] [Excursions, p. 148; Riv. 181.]
[260] [Week, p. 339; Riv. 419. The "double spruce" is now generally known as the black spruce. Thoreau makes it "single spruce" (i. e., white spruce) in the book, but the tree he was familiar with was the black. He confused these two species for a time, but eventually discovered his error.]
[261] [Excursions, pp. 125, 126; Riv. 154, 155.]
[262] [Week, p. 363; Riv. 449.]
[263] [Week, p. 56; Riv. 70.]
[264] [Week, p. 341; Riv. 422.]
[265] [Week, p. 229; Riv. 284.]
[266] [Week, p. 341; Riv. 421, 422.]
[267] [Week, p. 353; Riv. 436, 437.]
[268] [Week, p. 363; Riv. 450.]
[269] [Week, p. 365; Riv. 453.]
[270] [Week, p. 159; Riv. 198.]
[271] [Week, p. 159; Riv. 199.]
[272] [Week, p. 155; Riv. 194.]
[273] [Week, p. 155; Riv. 193.]
[274] [Week, p. 155; Riv. 194.]
[275] [Week, p. 156; Riv. 195.]
[276] [Week, p. 159; Riv. 198.]
[277] [Week, p. 402; Riv. 496.]
[278] [Week, p. 159; Riv. 198.]
[279] [Week, p. 156; Riv. 194.]
[280] [Week, p. 156; Riv. 195.]
[281] [Week, p. 358; Riv. 443.]
[282] [Week, p. 155; Riv. 193.]
[283] [Excursions, p. 119; Riv. 146, 147.]
[284] [Excursions, pp. 331, 332; Riv. 408.]
[285] [Week, p. 358; Riv. 443.]
[286] [Week, p. 48; Riv. 60.]
[287] [Week, p. 393; Riv. 486.]
[288] [Week, pp. 393, 394; Riv. 486.]
[289] [Week, p. 394; Riv. 486.]
[290] [Week, p. 111; Riv. 138.]
[291] [See p. 213 for the possible origin of this figure.]
[292] [On the back lining-page of the manuscript Journal volume which ends with this date are the following sentences in pencil:
There is another young day let loose to roam the earth.
Happiness is very unprofitable stock.
The love which is preached nowadays is an ocean of new milk for a man to swim in. I hear no surf nor surge, but the winds coo over it.]
[293] [See Week, pp. xx, xxi; Misc., Riv. 8, 9 (Emerson's Biographical Sketch of Thoreau).]
[294] [Week, p. 291; Riv. 361.]
[295] [Week, p. 363; Riv. 450.]
[296] [Week, p. 395; Riv. 488.]
[297] [Week, p. 395; Riv. 488.]
[298] [This poem, with the four additional stanzas of the next date, appears in the Week, pp. 313, 314 (Riv. 388, 389) under the title of "The Inward Morning." The second stanza is there omitted and there are other alterations.]
[299] [Familiar Letters, Sept., 1852.]
[301] [Week, p. 373; Riv. 461.]
[302] [Week, p. 54; Riv. 67.]
[303] [Excursions, p. 174; Riv. 212.]
[304] [Written in pencil on a fly-leaf of the Journal:] A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
[305] [Channing, p. 241.]
[307] [Excursions, p. 173; Riv. 212.]
[308] [Week, p. 314; Riv. 389.]
[309] [Week, p. 133; Riv. 166.]
[310] [Week, p. 280; Riv. 347.]
[311] [Week, p. 314; Riv. 390.]
[312] [Week, p. 384; Riv. 474.]
[313] [Week, p. 396; Riv. 489.]
[314] [Week, p. 397; Riv. 490.]
[315] [Week, p. 398; Riv. 491.]
[316] [Week, p. 397; Riv. 490.]
[317] [Week, p. 398; Riv. 491, 492.]
[318] [Excursions, pp. 103, 104; Riv. 127, 128.]
[319] [Excursions, pp. 103-105; Riv. 127-129.]
[320] [Week, p. 362; Riv. 449.]
[321] [Excursions, p. 105; Riv. 129, 130.]
[322] [Week, pp. 77, 78; Riv. 96, 97.]
[323] [Week, p. 396; Riv. 489.]
[324] [Week, p. 398; Riv. 492.]
[325] [Week, p. 396; Riv. 489, 490.]
[326] [Week, pp. 237, 238; Riv. 294, 295.]
[327] [Week, pp. 108-110; Riv. 134-136.]
[328] [Week, p. 110; Riv. 136, 137.]
[329] [Excursions, p. 104; Riv. 128.]
[330] [Week, p. 184; Riv. 228.]
[331] [Week, p. 182; Riv. 226.]
[332] [Week, p. 183; Riv. 227.]
[333] [It was about a year after the date of this entry that Richard F. Fuller made Thoreau a present of a music-box (see Familiar Letters, March 2, 1842, and Jan. 16 and 24, 1843), which a few months later, on departing for Staten Island, he lent to Hawthorne (American Note-Books, Riv. pp. 333, 338).]
[334] [Week, p. 184; Riv. 228.]
[335] [Week, p. 184; Riv. 228.]
[336] [Week, p. 303; Riv. 377.]
[337] [Thoreau's brother John died Jan. 11, 1842.]
[338] [Two lines missing from the manuscript here.]
[339] [Week, p. 398; Riv. 492.]
[340] [Week, p. 397; Riv. 490.]
[341] [Week, p. 288; Riv. 357.]
[342] [Week, p. 288; Riv. 358.]
[343] [At the head of this paragraph appears the following in pencil: What has music to do with the lives of the Great Composers? It is the great composer who is not yet dead whose life should be written. Shall we presume to write such a history as the former while the winds blow?]
[344] [Week, pp. 398, 399; Riv. 492.]
[345] [Week, p. 303; Riv. 377.]
[346] [Week, pp. 397, 398; Riv. 491.]
[347] [Week, pp. 397, 398; Riv. 491, 492.]
[348] [Week, p. 156; Riv. 195.]
[349] [Week, p. 157; Riv. 196.]
[350] [Week, pp. 339, 340; Riv. 420.]
[351] [Week, p. 138; Riv. 172, 173.]
[352] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 336; Misc., Riv. 106, 107.]
[353] [See pp. 443, 444.]
[354] [See Journal, vol. ii, p. 128.]
[355] [Week, p. 283; Riv. 351.]
[356] [Week, pp. 130, 131; Riv. 163.]
[357] Set the red hen, Sunday, March 21st [=20th]. [This memorandum is written in the margin. It is pretty good proof that by now we have come to the original Journal. Just where the transcripts end, however, it seems to be impossible to determine.]
[358] [Week, p. 107; Riv. 133.]
[359] [Week, p. 130; Riv. 162.]
[360] [Week, p. 160; Riv. 199.]
[361] [Week, p. 109; Riv. 135, 136.]
[362] [Week, p. 153; Riv. 191.]
[363] [Week, p. 153; Riv. 191.]
[364] [Week, p. 153; Riv. 191.]
[365] [Week, p. 105; Riv. 130.]
[366] [Week, p. 153; Riv. 191.]
[367] [See pp. 295, 296.]
[368] [Week, p. 137; Riv. 170.]
[369] [Week, p. 301; Riv. 374, 375.]
[370] [Week, p. 351; Riv. 434.]
[371] [Week, p. 130; Riv. 163.]
[372] [In Excursions, p. 110 (Riv. 136), what appears to be the same bird is described, and is called the fish hawk.]
[373] [Week, pp. 105, 106; Riv. 131, 132.]
[374] [Week, pp. 34, 35; Riv. 42, 43.]
[375] [Excursions, p. 110; Riv. 136.]
[376] [Week, p. 110; Riv. 137.]
[377] [On the margin of this page appears the memorandum: "Set the gray hen April 1st."]
[378] [Week, p. 397; Riv. 490, 491.]
[379] [Excursions, p. 111; Riv. 137.]
[380] [Walden, p. 94; Riv. 134.]
[381] [Walden, p. 106; Riv. 150.]
[382] [Walden, pp. 171, 172; Riv. 242.]
[383] [Walden, p. 145; Riv. 205.]
[384] [Walden, pp. 145, 146; Riv. 206.]
[385] [Plainly "neat" in Journal, though Walden has "great."]
[386] [Walden, pp. 159, 160; Riv. 224, 225.]
[387] [Walden, p. 161; Riv. 227.]
[388] [Walden, pp. 12, 13; Riv. 21.]
[389] [Walden, p. 39; Riv. 59.]
[390] [Walden, p. 41; Riv. 61.]
[391] [Walden, p. 41; Riv. 61.]
[392] [Walden, p. 309; Riv. 433.]
[393] [Walden, p. 250; Riv. 351.]
[394] [Walden, pp. 112-114; Riv. 159-161.]
[395] [Walden, p. 114; Riv. 162.]
[396] [See Excursions, p. 295; Riv. 362.]
[397] [Eight lines, somewhat altered, Week, pp. 407, 408; Riv. 503.]
[398] [Week, p. 407; Riv. 503.]
[399] [By Eliot Warburton, London, 1844, and New York, 1845.]
[400] [Week, pp. 266, 267; Riv. 331.]
[401] [Week, pp. 266, 267; Riv. 330-332.]
[402] [Walden, p. 111; Riv. 157, 158.]
[403] [Walden, p. 127; Riv. 179, 180.]
[404] [Walden, pp. 137, 138; Riv. 194-196.]
[405] [Walden, pp. 139, 140; Riv. 197, 198.]
[406] [Walden, p. 242, where he makes his age four instead of five at the time of this early visit.]
[407] [Walden, p. 139; Riv. 197.]
[408] [Walden, p. 181; Riv. 255.]
[409] [Walden, p. 182; Riv. 256.]
[410] [The Legend of Good Women, ll. 1218, 1219.]
[411] [Walden, pp. 225-227, 229, 231; Riv. 317-320, 322, 325, 326.]
[412] [Walden, p. 232; Riv. 327.]
[413] [Walden, pp. 230, 231; Riv. 323-325.]
[414] [See Walden, pp. 271, 272; Riv. 380, 381.]
[415] [Walden, p. 44; Riv. 65, 66.]
[416] [Walden, pp. 32, 33; Riv. 48, 49.]
[417] [Walden, pp. 33, 34; Riv. 50, 51.]
[418] [Walden, pp. 37, 38; Riv. 56.]
[419] [Walden, p. 34; Riv. 51, 52.]
[420] [Walden, p. 35; Riv. 53.]
[421] [Walden, p. 36; Riv. 55.]
[422] [Walden, p. 39; Riv. 58.]
[423] [Week, p. 264; Riv. 328.]
[424] [Week, p. 65; Riv. 81.]
[425] [Week, p. 58; Riv. 72.]
[426] [Week, p. 61; Riv. 76.]
[427] [Week, p. 136; Riv. 169.]
[428] [Week, p. 58; Riv. 72, 73.]
[429] [Week, p. 57; Riv. 72.]
[430] [Walden, p. 275; Riv. 386.]
[431] [Walden, p. 275; Riv. 386.]
[432] [Walden, p. 4; Riv. 9.]
[433] [Walden, p. 7; Riv. 12, 13.]
[434] [Walden, p. 301; Riv. 422.]
[435] [See Journal, vol. vii, Feb. 1, 1855.]
[436] [Walden, pp. 12, 13; Riv. 21.]
[437] [Walden, p. 306; Riv. 429.]
[438] [Walden, p. 162; Riv. 228.]
[439] [Walden, p. 304; Riv. 426.]
[440] [Walden, pp. 344, 345; Riv. 481, 482.]
[441] [Walden, pp. 183, 184; Riv. 258, 259.]
[442] [Walden, p. 345; Riv. 482.]
[443] [Walden, p. 345; Riv. 482, 483.]
[444] [Twenty-six lines of this, somewhat revised, appear under the title of "Pilgrims" in Excursions, and Poems, p. 413.]
[445] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, pp. 352, 353; Misc., Riv. 127, 128.]
[446] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 344; Misc., Riv. 116, 117.]
[447] [Walden, pp. 288, 289; Riv. 405.]
[448] [Walden, p. 289; Riv. 405, 406.]
[449] [Walden, pp. 24, 26; Riv. 36, 40.]
[450] [Walden, p. 24; Riv. 37.]
[451] [Walden, p. 25; Riv. 38.]
[452] [Walden, p. 25; Riv. 38, 39.]
[453] [Walden, pp. 283, 284, 287, 288; Riv. 397-400, 404.]
[454] [Walden, pp. 289-291; Riv. 406-408.]
[455] [Walden, pp. 282, 283; Riv. 396, 397.]
[456] [Walden, pp. 258, 259; Riv. 363, 364.]
[457] [Walden, p. 345; Riv. 483.]
[458] [Walden, p. 262; Riv. 368.]
[459] [Walden, p. 259; Riv. 364.]
[460] [Walden, p. 305; Riv. 428.]
[461] ["Hilda" was originally written where "Nutting" appears on p. 420.]
[462] [Walden, p. 292; Riv. 408, 409.]
[463] [Walden, pp. 323, 324; Riv. 452, 453.]
[464] [Walden, p. 313; Riv. 438.]
[465] [Walden, pp. 289, 290; Riv. 406, 407.]
[466] [Walden, p. 285; Riv. 400.]
[467] [See Week, p. 102; Riv. 127.]
[468] [Walden, p. 280; Riv. 392, 393.]
[469] [Walden, p. 309; Riv. 434.]
[470] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, pp. 325-327; Misc., Riv. 93-95 ("Thomas Carlyle and his Works").]
[471] [Walden, pp. 4, 5; Riv. 9, 10.]
[472] [Walden, pp. 6, 8; Riv. 11, 14.]
[473] [Walden, p. 8; Riv. 14, 15.]
[474] [Walden, pp. 5, 6; Riv. 10, 11.]
[475] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 327; Misc., Riv. 95 ("Thomas Carlyle and his Works").]
[476] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 325; Misc., Riv. 93 ("Thomas Carlyle and his Works").]
[477] [Walden, pp. 283-285, 287, 288; Riv. 397-400, 404.]
[478] [Walden, pp. 68, 69; Riv. 99, 100.]
[479] [Cape Cod, and Miscellanies, p. 348; Misc., Riv. 121 ("Thomas Carlyle and his Works").]
[480] [Walden, p. 296; Riv. 415, 416.]
[481] [Walden, p. 296; Riv. 415.]
[482] [Walden, p. 310; Riv. 434, 435.]
[483] [Walden, pp. 19-21; Riv. 30-33.]
[484] [Walden, p. 12; Riv. 19, 20.]
[485] [Walden, p. 12; Riv. 20.]
[486] [Week, p. 45; Riv. 57.]
[487] [This follows matter used on p. 81 of Week (Riv. 101).]
[488] [The boatman's. See Week, p. 222; Riv. 276.]
[490] [This and the succeeding paragraphs on the Indian were written in pencil on loose sheets of paper and slipped between the pages of the Journal.]
[491] [See Week, pp. 286, 287; Riv. 356.]
[492] Vide the Fall of the Leaf poem. [This note is written in pencil between this line and the following stanza. The poem referred to is reprinted (without these lines) in Excursions, and Poems, p. 407.]
[493] [This refers to the middle of September and follows matter used in Week, on p. 357 (Riv. 443).]
[494] [Week, p. 387; Riv. 478.]
[495] [Week, p. 133; Riv. 166.]
[496] [The first four lines of a poem the rest of which appears on pp. 234, 235 of Week (Riv. 290, 291).]
[497] [This poem appears, slightly abridged and altered, in Week, p. 201 (Riv. 249).]
[498] [There is a blank space here before "musty," as if Thoreau had sought another adjective to go with it.]
[499] [See Excursions, p. 208; Riv. 255.]
[500] [Week, p. 377; Riv. 465.]
[501] [Week, p. 302; Riv. 375.]
[502] [Week, p. 302; Riv. 375.]
[503] [See Week, pp. 33, 34; Riv. 41, 42.]
[504] [This appears in pencil on a loose sheet of paper inclosed between the pages of the Journal.]
[505] [Excursions, and Poems, p. 409. See also p. 71.]
[506] [Here follows matter printed on pp. 105, 106 of Week (Riv. 130-132).]
[507] [See Journal, vol. vi, Feb. 5, 1854.]
[508] [See Walden, pp. 120, 121; Riv. 171, 172.]
