BIB_ID
288177
Accession number
MA 1302.26
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1856 Jan. 4-Apr. 23.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 266 p.), bound : ill., map ; 25.9 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Includes affixed newspaper clippings about the weather, snow storms, and fish caught on the Merrimac River.
Includes blue pencil use-marks made by H.G.O. Blake.
Includes sketches.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Includes affixed newspaper clippings about the weather, snow storms, and fish caught on the Merrimac River.
Includes blue pencil use-marks made by H.G.O. Blake.
Includes sketches.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. 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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