BIB_ID
288094
Accession number
MA 1302.1
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1837 Oct. 22-1839 Nov. 29 [transcribed 1841].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 154 p.), bound ; 20.9 cm
Notes
Back paste-down includes notes in pencil.
First page: "Henry D. Thoreau. Gleanings -- Or What Time Has Not Reaped Of My Journal."
High reserve.
In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue pencil use-marks by Blake on 49 pages.
Includes poems.
Includes quotations from [George] Herbert, [Robert] Burton, and [Andrew] Marvell; mentions [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, Virgil, Homer, [George Gordon] Byron, and others.
MA 1302.1 is an 1841 transcription of Thoreau's original journal. Thoreau originally began his journal in two large volumes, of 546 and 396 pages respectively. These first two original volumes were transcribed into four smaller journals by Thoreau after 31 January 1841 (possibly in October-November 1841). Neither of the two original volumes is extant, although a few scattered leaves from the first and Thoreau's partial indexes to both volumes survive. MA 1302.1 and MA 1302.2 (p. 1-73) are Thoreau's 1841 transcription of the first volume of the original journal.--Cf. Broderick.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
First page: "Henry D. Thoreau. Gleanings -- Or What Time Has Not Reaped Of My Journal."
High reserve.
In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue pencil use-marks by Blake on 49 pages.
Includes poems.
Includes quotations from [George] Herbert, [Robert] Burton, and [Andrew] Marvell; mentions [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, Virgil, Homer, [George Gordon] Byron, and others.
MA 1302.1 is an 1841 transcription of Thoreau's original journal. Thoreau originally began his journal in two large volumes, of 546 and 396 pages respectively. These first two original volumes were transcribed into four smaller journals by Thoreau after 31 January 1841 (possibly in October-November 1841). Neither of the two original volumes is extant, although a few scattered leaves from the first and Thoreau's partial indexes to both volumes survive. MA 1302.1 and MA 1302.2 (p. 1-73) are Thoreau's 1841 transcription of the first volume of the original journal.--Cf. Broderick.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
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.H. Russell; sold around 1906; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Housed in
Brown quarter leather drop-spine box (27.8 cm)
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