The love of stories, real or fabulous, in young and old : autograph manuscript essay : [Cambridge], 1836 [Sept. 30].

Record ID: 
116568
Accession number: 
MA 920.9
Author: 
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Date: 
1836 [Sept. 30].
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.4 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).
The date is based on a list,"Themes given out by Prof. Channing to the Class of Harvard University. From Sept. 1834 to Sept. 1837," kept by William Allen, Thoreau's classmate and friend. Cf. Moldenhauer and Moser, p. 311.
Written as an assignment for Edward Tyrrel Channing's rhetoric course at Harvard.

Provenance: 
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.