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Autograph letter signed : Salem [Mass.], to Henry David Thoreau, 1849 Feb. 19.

BIB_ID
103534
Accession number
MA 920.30
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1849 Feb. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph poems, essays, and letters written by or to Thoreau. Items in the collection are described in 37 individual records (MA 920.1-37).
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
Concerning a lecture by Thoreau in Salem; mentioning Mr. [Amos Bronson] Alcott; suggesting that he might want to speak about "the Walden experiment."