BIB_ID
288154
Accession number
MA 1302.12
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1851 July 8-Aug. 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 156 p.), bound ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Front flyleaf contains Thoreau's index to the notebook.
High reserve.
Occasional pages excised or partially cut away.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
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") affixed to the front paste-down.
High reserve.
Occasional pages excised or partially cut away.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
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") 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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