BIB_ID
288108
Accession number
MA 1302.5
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1841 Mar. 30-Sept. 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 87 p.), bound ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Approximately 20 leaves excised at beginning and end.
High reserve.
Originally 92 leaves, now 72 leaves. Written on ca. 87 of 115 numbered pages; blank leaves interspersed throughout, and 28 blank, unnumbered pages follow p. 115.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
With crushed spider on p. [140-141].
With heavy plack-pencil use-marks (possibly Blake's, but indistinguishable from Throreau's) throughout.
With penciled notes and index on the back paste-down.
High reserve.
Originally 92 leaves, now 72 leaves. Written on ca. 87 of 115 numbered pages; blank leaves interspersed throughout, and 28 blank, unnumbered pages follow p. 115.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
With crushed spider on p. [140-141].
With heavy plack-pencil use-marks (possibly Blake's, but indistinguishable from Throreau's) throughout.
With penciled notes and index on the back paste-down.
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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