BIB_ID
288158
Accession number
MA 1302.15
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1852 Jan. 12-Mar. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 237 p.), bound ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Half of one leaf (p. 209-210) excised. Paged. 1-237 on rectos in pencil by Thoreau (last leaf and front and back paste-down endpapers and flyleaves unnumbered).
High reserve.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
With index on the last leaf, back endpaper and 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.
With index on the last leaf, back endpaper and back 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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