BIB_ID
288238
Accession number
MA 597
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, ca. 1850
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (62 pages) bound : ill. ; 20.1 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about June to October 1850.--Cf. Robert F. Sayer, 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.
With an illustration of clay pots on p. 54.
Manuscript probably written from about June to October 1850.--Cf. Robert F. Sayer, 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.
With an illustration of clay pots on p. 54.
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 1845-1848, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.2 cm)
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