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Extracts relating to the Indians, Concord, ca. 1856 Jan. 24-1858 Feb. : autograph notebook.

BIB_ID
288262
Accession number
MA 604
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, ca. 1856 Jan. 24-1858 Feb.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 668 pages) bound : illustrated ; 24.8 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about 24 January 1856-February, 1858. First page is dated in pencil.--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 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 1855-1856, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27 cm)