BIB_ID
288155
Accession number
MA 1302.13
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1851 Aug. 21-Oct. 7 [and after 1852 Jan. 28].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 123 p.), bound ; 24.7 cm
Notes
90 leaves with front and back endpapers and flyleaves, paged 3-183. With three leaves tipped in following the back flyleaf.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
The three leaves (5 p.) tipped in contain an essay about Johnny Riordan, the son of an Irish laborer. Thoreau probably wrote this essay sometime after 28 January 1852: it incorporates passages from 28 November 1850, 22 December 1851 and 28 January 1852.--Cf. Sattelmeyer
With index on the front endpaper and flyleaf.
High reserve.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
The three leaves (5 p.) tipped in contain an essay about Johnny Riordan, the son of an Irish laborer. Thoreau probably wrote this essay sometime after 28 January 1852: it incorporates passages from 28 November 1850, 22 December 1851 and 28 January 1852.--Cf. Sattelmeyer
With index on the front endpaper and flyleaf.
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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