BIB_ID
288240
Accession number
MA 598
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, ca. 1850 Nov.-1851 Sept.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 121 pages), bound ; 20.1 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Includes a few scraps of paper with notes laid in.
Manuscript dating is based on when Thoreau borrowed the books he is quoting from Harvard.--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.
Includes a few scraps of paper with notes laid in.
Manuscript dating is based on when Thoreau borrowed the books he is quoting from Harvard.--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 1846-1851, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Brown leather pull-off box (21.8 cm)
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