BIB_ID
288170
Accession number
MA 1302.24
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1854 Sept. 3-1855 May 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 440 p.), bound ; 24.2 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Paginated 1-437 in pencil by Thoreau on the rectos. With a single-page index following the text, and notes in pencil on the back paste-down.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
Paginated 1-437 in pencil by Thoreau on the rectos. With a single-page index following the text, and notes in pencil on the back paste-down.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
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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