BIB_ID
288237
Accession number
MA 596
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, ca. 1847-1850
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 87 pages), bound ; 18.4 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably started in 1847 and finished before May 1850. Cf. Robert F. Sayre, Thoreau and the American Indians (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977), p. 110.
Part of a collection of 12 Thoreau notebooks: 11 "Indian notebooks" (MA 596-606) and 1 notebook with "Extracts relating to Canada" (MA 595). The notebooks are described individually in 12 records.
Title from label on front cover.
Manuscript probably started in 1847 and finished before May 1850. Cf. Robert F. Sayre, Thoreau and the American Indians (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1977), p. 110.
Part of a collection of 12 Thoreau notebooks: 11 "Indian notebooks" (MA 596-606) and 1 notebook with "Extracts relating to Canada" (MA 595). The notebooks are described individually in 12 records.
Title from label on front cover.
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. Harlow Russell; sold in 1904 to the dealer George S. Hellman; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Extracts from books published 1843-1849, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (20.6 cm)
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