BIB_ID
288272
Accession number
MA 605
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
Concord, ca. 1858 Feb.-1859 Feb.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 184 pages) bound : illustrated ; 25.7 cm
Notes
High reserve.
Manuscript probably written from about 15 February 1858 to 28 February 1859. On 15 February 1858, Thoreau drew Rasles' Dictionary from the Harvard library, and the last page is dated "Feb 28 '59" 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 some sketches throughout.
Manuscript probably written from about 15 February 1858 to 28 February 1859. On 15 February 1858, Thoreau drew Rasles' Dictionary from the Harvard library, and the last page is dated "Feb 28 '59" 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 some 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 1856-1857, on Native Americans and exploration of the North American continent.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (28 cm)
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