BIB_ID
116211
Accession number
MA 595
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1850.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (101 pages) bound : map ; 20.5 cm
Notes
After writing 74 pages, Thoreau inverted the book and wrote the remaining pages from back to front.
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from September to December, 1850. One entry, giving a list of "old books containing maps" that Thoreau saw in Cambridge, is dated 18 November 1850. Loose material contains items dated as late as March 1856. Thoreau visited Canada from 25 September to 2 October, 1850.
Part of a collection of 12 Thoreau notebooks: 11 "Indian notebooks" (MA 596-606) and 1 notebook with "Extracts relating to Canada" (MA 595). The notebooks are described individually in 12 records.
Some material later used in "A Yankee in Canada" and "Cape Cod." Some notes on "hydraulics" used in Walden.
Title from label on front cover.
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from September to December, 1850. One entry, giving a list of "old books containing maps" that Thoreau saw in Cambridge, is dated 18 November 1850. Loose material contains items dated as late as March 1856. Thoreau visited Canada from 25 September to 2 October, 1850.
Part of a collection of 12 Thoreau notebooks: 11 "Indian notebooks" (MA 596-606) and 1 notebook with "Extracts relating to Canada" (MA 595). The notebooks are described individually in 12 records.
Some material later used in "A Yankee in Canada" and "Cape Cod." Some notes on "hydraulics" used in Walden.
Title from label on front cover.
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.
Summary
Extracts from various works on the history, geography and cartography of Canada and eastern America. With notes throughout and some lightly penciled use-marks, as well as a list of "Books on Canada" on p. 1.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.7 cm)
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