BIB_ID
116558
Accession number
MA 920.16
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1843 Aug. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
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).
With postmark and seal; place of writing is from postmark.
With postmark and seal; place of writing is from postmark.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
Describing going to booksellers and publishers to look for work; mentioning a severe rainstorm; discussing their acquaintances in Concord; noting that he got a stranger's ticket for a month at the Mercantile Library and read [Thomas] Carlyle's latest article. A postscript notes that he bought pantaloons for "$2.25 ready made."
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