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Autograph manuscript of fragments of two poems : The peal of the bells and Upon the bank at early dawn, [between 1835-1860].

BIB_ID
116553
Accession number
MA 920.3
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[between 1835-1860].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes
Includes the last 16 lines of "The peal of the bells" and stanzas 2-4 and two unpublished stanzas of "Upon the bank at early dawn."
Part of a collection of autograph poems, essays, and letters written by or to Thoreau. Items in the collection are described in 37 individual records (MA 920.1-37).
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.