BIB_ID
288260
Accession number
MA 603
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Cambridge and Concord, ca. 1855-1856
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 436 pages) bound ; 24.7 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about January, 1855-after 10 December 1855. Beginning date from probable completion of preceding notebook (MA 602); entry on p. 436 dated Cambridge, 10 December 1856.--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.
Manuscript probably written from about January, 1855-after 10 December 1855. Beginning date from probable completion of preceding notebook (MA 602); entry on p. 436 dated Cambridge, 10 December 1856.--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.
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 1855-1856, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (26.7 cm)
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