BIB_ID
288321
Accession number
MA 920.19
Creator
Peabody, Augustus Goddard, 19th cent.
Display Date
1836 May 30.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 24.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of autograph poems, essays, and letters written by or to Thoreau. Items in the collection are described in 37 individual records (MA 920.1-37).
This is the earliest extant letter to Thoreau.
With postmark.
This is the earliest extant letter to Thoreau.
With postmark.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
Commenting on the fine weather after "nine days of constant rain"; noting that "everything goes on here as regular as clock work, and it is as dull as one of Dr. [Henry] Ware's sermons"; mentioning a fireworks display that was part of a "lecture on pryotechny" and a "miniature volcanoe" at another lecture; describing how their classmates behaved after trying the "laughing gas" manufactured by "Bigelow and Dr. Bacon."
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