Record ID:
288243
Accession number:
MA 599
Created:
Cambridge and Concord, ca. 1851 Sept.-1852 Feb.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description:
1 item (108 pages) bound : ill. ; 20.1 cm
Notes:
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about 9 September 1851-February 1852. Beginning date from a September 1851 reference to Kalm in Thoreau's Journal; on 2 February 1852, Thoreau drew the Lahontan (see p. 76-104) from the Harvard library.--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 illustrations on p. 77 and 86.
Summary:
Extracts from books published 1849-1851, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in:
Blue cloth drop-spine box (23 cm)
Binding:
Brown quarter leather over blue, pink, and tan marbled paper covered boards; paper label.
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.
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