BIB_ID
288245
Accession number
MA 600
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (166 p.) bound : ill. ; 20.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about February-October 1852. Beginning date from probable completion of preceding notebook (MA 599); on 5 October 1852, Thoreau drew the Jesuit Relation for 1633 from the Harvard library.--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.
With sketches and diagrams, especially of arrowheads, throughout.
Manuscript probably written from about February-October 1852. Beginning date from probable completion of preceding notebook (MA 599); on 5 October 1852, Thoreau drew the Jesuit Relation for 1633 from the Harvard library.--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.
With sketches and diagrams, especially of arrowheads, throughout.
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 1851-1852, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.9 cm)
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