BIB_ID
288205
Accession number
MA 1302.39
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1860 Nov. 23-1861 Nov. 3.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 v. (ca. 107 p.), bound ; 26.5 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Includes a loose scrap of paper with notes; there are also notes in pencil on the front and back paste-down endpapers.
Includes blue pencil use-marks made by H.G.O. Blake.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Parts of this journal were written while he was on a trip to Minnesota. The entry of May 11, 1861 ends, "Set out for Minnesota," and subsequent entries are written from Worcester and Albany.
The journal is only half full.
Includes a loose scrap of paper with notes; there are also notes in pencil on the front and back paste-down endpapers.
Includes blue pencil use-marks made by H.G.O. Blake.
Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. Journals are described in 39 individual records.
Parts of this journal were written while he was on a trip to Minnesota. The entry of May 11, 1861 ends, "Set out for Minnesota," and subsequent entries are written from Worcester and Albany.
The journal is only half full.
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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