1845/00/00 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Owner |
Emerson allows Henry David Thoreau to live on his property on Walden Pond |
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1845/03/05 |
William Ellery Channing (poet) |
Advisor |
I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars' - go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. - WEC letter to HDT |
Walden: Life in the Woods |
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1845/03/30 |
Henry David Thoreau |
Architect |
Near the end of March, I borrowed an axe and went down to the woods by Walden Pond, nearest to where I intended to build my house, and began to cut down some tall arrowy white pines, still in their youth, for timber. - HDT |
Walden: Life in the Woods |
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1845/04/15 |
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By the middle of April, for I made no haste in my work, but rather made the most of it, my house was framed and ready for the raising. I had already bought the shanty of James Collins, ... an uncommonly fine one. - HDT |
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1845/05/00 |
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Ralph W Emerson, A Bronson Alcott, William E Channing, George W Curtis, Burrill Curtis, Edmund Hosmer, John Hosmer, Edmund Hosmer Jr and Andrew Hosmer help raise HDT' frame house. |
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1845/07/04 |
Henry David Thoreau |
Home |
Henry Thoreau goes to live at Walden Pond. "My house makes me think of some mountain houses I have seen, which seemed to have a fresher auroral atmosphere about them, as I fancy of the halls of Olympus." |
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1845/08/05 |
Henry David Thoreau |
Home |
HDT sends Benjamin Watson fruit: One box is full of red huckleberries warranted not to change their hue, or lose their virtues in any climate.... The other contains half a dozen cherries (Sand Cherries, Bigelow?) The last grew within a rod of my lodge,... |
Walden: Life in the Woods |
Red Huckleberry |
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1845/08/06 |
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I have just been reading a book called The Crescent and the Cross, (Eliot Warburton) till now I am somewhat ashamed of myself. Am I sick, or idle, that I can sacrifice my energy, America, and to-day to this man's ill-remembered and indolent story? - HDT |
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1845/09/00 |
Joseph Hosmer (shoemaker) |
Visitor |
On his invitation I spent a Sunday at his lake side retreat, as pure and delightful as with my mother. The building was not then finished, the chimney had no beginning - the sides were not battened, or the walls plastered. - J Hosmer |
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1845/10/00 |
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At Walden Pond, Thoreau completes the first draft of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers". |
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1845/10/08 |
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Can you not without injurious delay to the shingling give a quarter or a half hour tomorrow morning to the direction of the Carpenter who builds Mrs (Lucy Jackson) Brown's fence? - Ralph W Emerson writes to H Thoreau |
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1845/10/18 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson loans Thoreau $7. |
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1845/11/00 |
Henry David Thoreau |
Architect |
I built the chimney after my hoeing in the fall, before a fire became necessary for warmth, doing my cooking in the meanwhile out of doors on the ground, early in the morning.... HDT |
Walden: Life in the Woods |
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1845/12/12 |
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The pond skimmed over on the night of this day, excepting a strip from the bar to the northwest shore. Flint's pond has been frozen for some time. - H D Thoreau's journal |
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1915/05/00 |
Julian Hawthorne |
Work |
As part of a photo essay assignment where he visits his old Boston, Salem, Cambridge and Concord haunts, Julian Hawthorne places a pebble on Thoreau's cairn at Walden Pond. |
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