BIB_ID
288249
Accession number
MA 601
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, ca. 1852 Oct.-Dec or 1853 Jan.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 160 pages) bound : illustrated ; 25.3 cm
Notes
After writing 108 pages, Thoreau inverted the notebook and wrote the remaining text from back to front.
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about October-December 1852 or January 1853. Beginning date from probable completion of preceding notebook (MA 600).--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 sketches of musical instruments and hatchets.
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about October-December 1852 or January 1853. Beginning date from probable completion of preceding notebook (MA 600).--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 sketches of musical instruments and hatchets.
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 1852-1853, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.6 cm)
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