Record ID:
288202
Accession number:
MA 1302.36
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description:
1 v. (ca. 303 p.), bound ; 26.4 cm
Notes:
Irregularly paginated 71-119, 125-133, 146-164. With notes on the back paste-down.
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.
Housed in:
Brown quarter leather drop-spine box (27.8 cm)
Binding:
Notebook of brown quarter cloth over tan and blue marbled paper covered boards; sewn in a single gathering.
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.
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