BIB_ID
288243
Accession number
MA 599
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Cambridge and Concord, ca. 1851 Sept.-1852 Feb.
Credit line
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.
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.
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 1849-1851, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (23 cm)
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