BIB_ID
116213
Accession number
MA 1303
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1839 Aug. 31-1846 Mar. 13 [partially transcribed beginning in 1842].
Credit line
Probably purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 258 p.), bound ; 32.6 cm
Notes
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers was published in 1849 (Boston: James Munroe and Co.) at Thoreau's expense.
High reserve.
Some pages excised.
This notebook also contains drafts of Thoreau's lecture on "Concord River" and his article on Wendell Phillips.
Thoreau referred to this notebook as the "Long Book" and used it while he was compiling notes for A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Many of the early dated entries are transcriptions of earlier journal entries. Broderick dates the start of this notebook to the fall of 1842 (cf. p. 451 in Journal: Volume 2).
High reserve.
Some pages excised.
This notebook also contains drafts of Thoreau's lecture on "Concord River" and his article on Wendell Phillips.
Thoreau referred to this notebook as the "Long Book" and used it while he was compiling notes for A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Many of the early dated entries are transcriptions of earlier journal entries. Broderick dates the start of this notebook to the fall of 1842 (cf. p. 451 in Journal: Volume 2).
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.5 cm)
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