[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.]

[300] [See p. 347.]

[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.]

[306] [See p. 244.]

[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.]

[489] [See p. 337.]

[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.]