BIB_ID
288134
Accession number
MA 1302.9
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[1850] May 12-[1850] Sept. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 96 p.), bound ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Front endpaper and flyleaf include index in ink.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Several pages are partially cut away, and pages in the center of the volume have been excised.
With a stationer's label ("Stationery Warehouse / Oakes & Darling, / Manufacturers of / Blank Account Books, / And Importers of / English & French Stationery, / No. 20 State Street, / Boston") and a scrap of yellow paper affixed to the front paste-down.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Several pages are partially cut away, and pages in the center of the volume have been excised.
With a stationer's label ("Stationery Warehouse / Oakes & Darling, / Manufacturers of / Blank Account Books, / And Importers of / English & French Stationery, / No. 20 State Street, / Boston") and a scrap of yellow paper affixed to the front 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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