Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
1 v. (ca. 88 p.), bound ; 19.7 cm
High reserve.
Irregularly paged in pencil "1-71" and "45-100"; in this numerical sequence pages 83-88, 91-128, and 131-142 are missing.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Written while Thoreau was living by Walden Pond. He used material from this journal for writing Walden.
By descent in 1862 to Thoreau's sister, Sophia; by descent in 1876 to Thoreau's friend and correspondent, H.G.O. Blake; by descent in 1898 to E.H. Russell; sold around 1906; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Brown quarter leather drop-spine box (27.8 cm)