BIB_ID
288254
Accession number
MA 602
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 499 pages) bound : ill. ; 23.7cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about November, 1852 to January, 1855. On 11 November 1852, Thoreau drew Jesuit Relation for 1636 from the Harvard library; entry on last page before endleaves dated Worcester, 4 January 1855.--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 of arrowheads, figures, and animals.
Manuscript probably written from about November, 1852 to January, 1855. On 11 November 1852, Thoreau drew Jesuit Relation for 1636 from the Harvard library; entry on last page before endleaves dated Worcester, 4 January 1855.--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 of arrowheads, figures, and animals.
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 1853-1854, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27 cm)
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