BIB_ID
288107
Accession number
MA 1718
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1840 July 30-1841 Jan. 22 [transcribed 1841].
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of C. Waller Barret, Mrs. Louis M. Rabinowitz and Robert H. Taylor, 1956.
Description
1 v. (ca. 139 p.), bound ; 19.6 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Includes heavy black-pencil use marks; it is unclear whether these were made by Thoreau or H.G.O. Blake.
MA 1302.3 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 1302.2 (p. 74-120), the entirety of MA 1302.3, and MA 1302.4 (p. 1-33) are Thoreau's 1841 transcription of the second volume of the original journal.--Cf. Broderick.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
Shelved as MA 1302.3.
The Morgan's collection of Thoreau's journals (MA 1302) consists of 39 sequential notebooks; this item is the third in that series. The other 38 journals in the collection were purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Stephen H. Wakeman in 1909. This journal remained in Wakeman's collection and was sold at auction in 1924. The Morgan Library acquired this journal in 1956 and accessioned it as MA 1718. It is shelved as MA 1302.3 because this is where it fits chronologically in the Morgan's collection of Thoreau's journals.
This "Lost Journal" was not printed in the 1906 edition of Thoreau's journals.--Cf. Broderick, v. 1, p. 587.
Includes heavy black-pencil use marks; it is unclear whether these were made by Thoreau or H.G.O. Blake.
MA 1302.3 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 1302.2 (p. 74-120), the entirety of MA 1302.3, and MA 1302.4 (p. 1-33) are Thoreau's 1841 transcription of the second volume of the original journal.--Cf. Broderick.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
Shelved as MA 1302.3.
The Morgan's collection of Thoreau's journals (MA 1302) consists of 39 sequential notebooks; this item is the third in that series. The other 38 journals in the collection were purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Stephen H. Wakeman in 1909. This journal remained in Wakeman's collection and was sold at auction in 1924. The Morgan Library acquired this journal in 1956 and accessioned it as MA 1718. It is shelved as MA 1302.3 because this is where it fits chronologically in the Morgan's collection of Thoreau's journals.
This "Lost Journal" was not printed in the 1906 edition of Thoreau's journals.--Cf. Broderick, v. 1, p. 587.
Provenance
By descent in 1862 to Thoreau's sister, Sophia; by descent in 1876 to Thoreau's friend and correspondent, H.G.O. Blake; disappeared from Blake's possession between 1892 and his death in 1898; bookplate of Stephen H. Wakeman, sold as part of the Wakeman Collection in 1924; acquired by the Morgan in 1956.
Housed in
Brown quarter leather drop-spine box (27.8 cm)
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