BIB_ID
288173
Accession number
MA 1302.25
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1855 May 13-1856 Jan. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 252 p.), bound ; 25.8 cm
Notes
After 79 pages (through entries dated 23 September 1855), Thoreau inverted the volume and wrote the remaining 173 pages of journal text from back to front.
High reserve.
In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue pencil use-marks by Blake on pages throughout.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records.
High reserve.
In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue pencil use-marks by Blake on pages throughout.
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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