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Inspiration : autograph manuscript fair copy of the poem, [1849 or later].

BIB_ID
116212
Accession number
MA 925.48
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[1849 or later].
Credit line
Bequest of Annie Fields, 1915.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Endorsed by his sister, Sophia Thoreau, on p. 4.
Part of an album of manuscript poems and letters of nineteenth-century English and American authors collected by Mrs. Annie Fields, author and literary hostess in Boston. Manuscripts in the album are described in individual records; see MA 925 for more information.
This manuscript starts with the fifth stanza of the poem as printed in Sanborn's 1906 collected edition of Thoreau's works.
Provenance
Sophia Thoreau; Annie Fields.