BIB_ID
288145
Accession number
MA 1302.7
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
[1845 July-Winter 1845/1846].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 66 p.), bound ; 22.3 cm
Notes
Companion volume to Walden 1 (MA 1302.8), physically identical and concurrently kept, used primarily for literary drafts for "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" and the lectures on Walden life and Thomas Carlyle. It was probably begun at the same time, or slightly before, MA 1302.8, and finished somewhat earlier during the winter of 1845-1846.--Cf. Broderick
High reserve.
Originally 72 leaves, now 33 leaves. Written on ca. 67 pages paged irregularly 7-140 on 22 pages. Front free endpapers and pages 1-12, 19-26, 37-49, 43-70, 73-80, 105-106, 117-126 and 137-142 excised.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
With penciled index on the front and back paste-downs.
High reserve.
Originally 72 leaves, now 33 leaves. Written on ca. 67 pages paged irregularly 7-140 on 22 pages. Front free endpapers and pages 1-12, 19-26, 37-49, 43-70, 73-80, 105-106, 117-126 and 137-142 excised.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
With penciled index on the front and back paste-downs.
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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