BIB_ID
116560
Accession number
MA 920.17
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1860 July 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 19.5 cm + envelope
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.
With postmark.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
Telling her he has sprained his thumb and may not be able to write legibly; saying he hopes that New Hampshire is helping her health; asking whether she has seen Franconia Notch mountains or Squam Lake; mentioning some of their acquaintances, including [Nathaniel] Hawthorne.
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