BIB_ID
116210
Accession number
MA 595-606
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
12 volumes, bound : illustrated, 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. Records for MA 595-603, MA 604 through p. 433, and MA 606 have pdf attachments of transcriptions. These transcriptions were prepared by students in Professor Arthur Christy's "Methods of Literary Research" proseminar at Columbia University in 1931; they are drafts which Christy gave to the Library in 1932. Five students submitted MA theses containing final versions of their transcriptions. These theses are available at Columbia; see individual catalog records for citations. Two students did not submit theses, but corrected versions of their transcriptions are located in the Arthur Christy Papers, also at Columbia; see individual catalog records for citations.
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.")
High reserve.
The notebooks are cataloged in 12 individual records, MA 595-606. Records for MA 595-603, MA 604 through p. 433, and MA 606 have pdf attachments of transcriptions. These transcriptions were prepared by students in Professor Arthur Christy's "Methods of Literary Research" proseminar at Columbia University in 1931; they are drafts which Christy gave to the Library in 1932. Five students submitted MA theses containing final versions of their transcriptions. These theses are available at Columbia; see individual catalog records for citations. Two students did not submit theses, but corrected versions of their transcriptions are located in the Arthur Christy Papers, also at Columbia; see individual catalog records for citations.
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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