Record ID:
116210
Accession number:
MA 595-606
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description:
12 v., bound : ill., map ; size varies
Notes:
Collection of 12 Thoreau notebooks: 11 "Indian notebooks" (MA 596-606) and 1 notebook with "Extracts relating to Canada" (MA 595). The notebooks are comprised mainly of extracts from books published 1845-1861, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent. With some notes, sketches, diagrams, and maps throughout.
High reserve.
The notebooks are cataloged in 12 individual records (MA 595-606).
This series is frequently referred to as Thoreau's "Indian Notebooks." (N.B. The "Canadian Notebook" (MA 595) is not always grouped with the 11 other "Indian Notebooks.")
Provenance:
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. Harlow Russell; sold in 1904 to the dealer George S. Hellman; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
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