Snyder, Helena A.: Thoreau's philosophy of life: with special consideration of the influence of Hindoo philosophy (o.O., 1902)

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(a) Received 44 vols. Hindoo literature from Cholmondeley.
(£) Trip to Truro.
(a) Met Walt Whitman in Brooklyn (with Alcott).
(Z>) Visited Horace Greeley at Chappaqua (with Alice Carey
and Alcott).
(c) Refused offer of tutorship to Greeley’s sons.
(а) Met John Brown. (Introduced by Sanborn.)
(б) Third trip to the Maine Woods.
(a) “ Chesucook,” published in the Atlantic Monthly.
(a) John Brown captured October 18.
(£) Speech, “ Plea for Captain John Brown, ” October 30
and Nov. 1.
Speech, for memorial service, Dec. 2.
(a) Outbreak of war between North and South.
(Z>) Publication of “A Plea for Captain John Brown,” in
“ Echoes from Harper’s Ferry.”
Publication of ‘‘Last Days of John Brown,” in the
“ Liberator.”
(Delivered as a lecture at North Elba, July 4.)
(c) Publication of “ The Succession of Forest Trees,” in the
New York weekly Tribune.
(«) Trip to Minnesota (for his health.)
(a) Death.
(£) Emerson’s Biographical Sketch in Atlantic Monthly
for August.
(<:) Posthumous publication, “ Autumnal Tints,” in Atlantic
Monthly.