BIB_ID
116223
Accession number
MA 594
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[ca. 1836-1839].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 172 p.), bound ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Includes pages of notes in pencil.
Includes passages from the following authors and works: John Milton, Edward Dyer, Hymn of Caedmon; Beowulf; Christopher Marlow; Edmund Spenser; George Herbert; Robert Herrick; Philip Sidney, Boethius; Andrew Marvell; Chaucer; Richard Lovelace, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others.
The notebook has clippings pasted in, including a schedule of lectures at the Concord Lyceum and a printed copy of an Emerson poem.
The verso of the flyleaf is signed: "D.H. Thoreau / Cambridge Mass. / Nov. 1836."
Thoreau compiled this notebook of excerpts from various authors with his commentary while he was a student at Harvard. The first entry is written from "Hollis 23," Thoreau's dorm room in Harvard Yard.
Includes passages from the following authors and works: John Milton, Edward Dyer, Hymn of Caedmon; Beowulf; Christopher Marlow; Edmund Spenser; George Herbert; Robert Herrick; Philip Sidney, Boethius; Andrew Marvell; Chaucer; Richard Lovelace, Richard Crashaw, John Donne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others.
The notebook has clippings pasted in, including a schedule of lectures at the Concord Lyceum and a printed copy of an Emerson poem.
The verso of the flyleaf is signed: "D.H. Thoreau / Cambridge Mass. / Nov. 1836."
Thoreau compiled this notebook of excerpts from various authors with his commentary while he was a student at Harvard. The first entry is written from "Hollis 23," Thoreau's dorm room in Harvard Yard.
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.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.8 cm)
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