Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : Concord, to Horace Greeley, 1853 Feb. 9.

BIB_ID
288368
Accession number
MA 920.36
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Display Date
1853 Feb. 9.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 23.8 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).
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd Livingston, 1909.
Summary
Sending him a cheque to repay him for a loan; saying he is sorry that his "manuscript should be so mangled"; asking how much he is "still indebted to [Greeley] pecuniarily for trouble taken in disposing of [his] papers."