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INDEX 1825 1825 EVENTS OF 1824 General Events of 1825 SPRING JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH SUMMER APRIL MAY JUNE FALL JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER WINTER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER Following the death of Jesus Christ there was a period of readjustment that lasted for approximately one million years. –Kurt Vonnegut, THE SIRENS OF TITAN January February March Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 27 28 29 30 31 30 31 April May June Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 July August September EVENTS OF 1826 HDT WHAT? INDEX 1825 1825 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 October November December Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 30 31 THE RHODE-ISLAND ALMANACK FOR 1825. By Isaac Bickerstaff. Providence, Rhode Island: Brown & Danforth. THE RHODE-ISLAND REGISTER AND UNITED STATES CALENDAR FOR 1825. Providence: Brown & Danforth. Also The Providence Annual Advertiser. Warren Colburn’s AN INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA UPON THE INDUCTIVE METHOD OF INSTRUCTION (Boston: Hilliard, Gary, Little, and Wilkins). A copy of the 1826 republication of this, stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry late of T.H. Carter and Co., would make its way into the personal library of mathematics student David Henry Thoreau. COLBURN’S ALGEBRA HDT WHAT? INDEX 1825 1825 Georg Heinrich Bode’s ORPHIC POETRY was reviewed by Professor Edward Everett in the North American Review. E. EVERETT ON BODE (It has seemed plausible to suppose that this review may well have, in a later year, come to the attention of Henry Thoreau.) George Henry Bode would be teaching classical languages at George Bancroft’s and Joseph Cogswell’s Round Hill Academy in Northampton for three school years. Nicholas Marcellus Hentz’s A CLASSICAL FRENCH READER: SELECTED FROM THE BEST WRITERS OF THAT LANGUAGE, IN PROSE AND POETRY: PRECEDED BY AN INTRODUCTION DESIGNED TO FACILITATE THE STUDY OF THE RUDIMENTS OF THE FRENCH, AND ATTENDED WITH NOTES EXPLANATORY OF IDIOMS, ETC. THROUGHOUT THE WORK: COMPILED FOR THE USE OF THE ROUND HILL SCHOOL (Boston: Published by Richardson & Lord; H. Ferry, printer, Northampton). Also, his TADEUSKUND, THE LAST KING OF THE LENAPE. AN HISTORICAL TALE (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.; Printed by Hilliard and Metcalf), a fictionalized HDT WHAT? INDEX 1825 1825 account of the Paxton massacres on the Pennsylvania frontier in 1763. Hentz’s “Some observations on the Anatomy and Physiology of the Alligator of North America” appeared in the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. Publication in Philadelphia by the firm of A. Finley of a book that Henry Thoreau would own and would rely upon, Professor Richard Harlan’s FAUNA AMERICANA; BEING A DESCRIPTION OF THE MAMMIFEROUS ANIMALS INHABITING NORTH AMERICA, a catalogue of American mammals, the 1st of its kind. FAUNA AMERICANA Along the banks of the Delaware River Professor Harlan had discovered a curious skull. It would eventually be determined to be merely the skull of a South American paca, brought out of place, but Professor Harlan incautiously assigned this to a new genus and species of North American “Osteopera platycephala” (and, he would be blistered for this error, anonymously, by the naturalist Dr. John Godman). [According to Harlan] prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of animals generically HDT WHAT? INDEX 1825 1825 distinct, between the martin, (Mustela martes) and the domestic cat. CAT ABOUT THIS SOURCE The sisters of John Thoreau, Senior (Elizabeth Thoreau, Maria Thoreau, and Jane Thoreau) again mortgaged their home at Number 57 on Prince Street in Boston to Isaac Dupee for $1,000.00. THOREAU RESIDENCES According to Marcel R. Garnier’s L’ANCÊTRE (THE ANCESTOR), it was in about this year that John Guillet1 went from the Isle of Jersey to Québec in the New World. Harrison Gray Dyar reached his majority and completed his apprenticeship at the Concord clockmaking shop of Lemuel Curtis on the “Milldam”. Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau joined the Concord Female Charitable Society. One of the many things this society had done for the local “silent poor” was provide snuff, rice, tea, brandy, and spirits to Zilpah White while she had lived (she had died in 1820) “at the very corner of my bean field” near Walden Pond alone in a cabin, and provide yarn that she could weave so as to have some sort of cash income. WALDEN: Here, by the very corner of my field, still nearer PEOPLE OF to town, Zilpha, a colored woman, held her little house, where WALDEN she spun linen for townsfolk, making the Walden Woods ring with her shrill singing, for she had a loud and notable voice. At length, in the war of 1812, her dwelling was set on fire by English soldiers, prisoners on parole, when she was away, and her cat and dog and hens were all burned up together. She led a hard life, and somewhat inhumane. One old frequenter of these woods remembers, that as he passed her house one noon he heard her muttering to herself over her gurgling pot, –“Ye are all bones, bones!” I have seen bricks amid the oak copse there. ZILPAH WHITE SLAVERY After less than a year spent learning English and “networking,” Charles Follen landed a job at Harvard College as its 1st instructor in the German language. 1. In the Huguenot diaspora, the Guillet family was closely entangled with the Thoreau family. HDT WHAT? INDEX 1825 1825 CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE HDT WHAT? INDEX 1825 1825 Charles Butler’s BOOK OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. Also, his THE LIFE OF ERASMUS; WITH HISTORICAL REMARKS ON THE STATE OF LITERATURE BETWEEN THE 10TH AND 16TH CENTURIES (London: J. Murray). (This LIFE would be consulted by David Henry Thoreau in 1833.) LIFE OF ERASMUS Publication in London, also, of the four volumes of David Henry’s required textbooks, that would eventually be found in his personal library, Horace’s QUINTI HORATII FLACCI OPERA OMNIA EX EDITIONE J C ZEUNII CUM NOTIS ET INTERPRETATIONE IN USUM DELPHINI VARIIS LECTIONIBUS NOTIS VARIORUM RECENSU EDITIONUM ET CODICUM ET INDICE LOCUPLETISSIMO ACCURATE RECENSITI. This variorum edition contains all the then- known variants of the texts, with notes by Johann Carl Zeune (1736-1788). It had been part of a large series of Latin classics prepared originally for Louis, le Grand Dauphin, in the 17th century, and was republished in London by Abraham John Valpy (1787-1854). HORACE’S OPERA HORACE’S OPERA HORACE’S OPERA HORACE’S OPERA It was in epistle 6 in book 1 of EPISTLES that Horace wrote “To marvel at nothing, Numicius, is almost the one and only thing that can make and keep men happy. There are some people who moved by no awe watch this sun, the stars, and the seasons that follow one another in definite times.” [Nil admirari prope res est una, Numici, / Solaque quae possit facere et servare beatum. / Hunc solem et stellas et decedentia certis / Tempora momentis, sunt qui formidine nulla / Imbuti spectent....] Thoreau would hold this in tension against the sock- it-to-me romanticism to which Edmund Burke gave voice in A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF OUR IDEAS OF THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL — the higher realms of literature, like the realms of astronomy, are above such Sturm und Drang.