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Sewall, E. Q. (Edmund Quincy), 1828-1908. Diary, 1840.

Title: Diary, 1840.

This brief diary chronicles Sewall's studies with the Thoreaus, March 28-May 16, 1840. The school was noted for its educational innovations and the Thoreaus stressed "learning by doing." Sewall records the numerous field trips the students took and also describes other aspects of school life important to young boys: pranks, meals, and assigned compositions. Included in the collection are two samples of his compositions on the subjects "birds" and "fishes." Walter Harding in his biography of Thoreau, The Days of Henry Thoreau (N.Y.: Knopf, 1964), pp. 77-79ff., quotes passages from the diary and cites its location as part of a collection held in private hands by Sewall descendants. It is not clear if the AAS volume is a copy of the original diary or if it is the original.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder (1 vol., 23 p.; 2 loose items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/207169792 View

Ward, Prudence, 1795-1874. Correspondence of Prudence Ward and Anne J. Ward, 1839-1906.

Title: Correspondence of Prudence Ward and Anne J. Ward, 1839-1906.

Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, and photographs of the Ward and Thoreau families. The correspondence consists of letters to Prudence Ward from Sophia, Maria, and Helen Thoreau and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn's letters to Anne J. Ward (1905, some with enclosed manuscripts). Also included are individual letters by Harrison Gray Otis Blake, Edmund Quincy Sewall, and George Washington Ward. The letters discuss the Alcott family, Mary Merrick Brooks, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and the Thoreau family; American Antislavery Society, Cherokee Nation, Southworth & Hawes daguerreotypes, family affairs, social news, etc. Also included are drawings by Sophia E. Thoreau and Prudence Ward and photographs of places and people connected with the Thoreau family and Prudence Ward. The collection contains two pages of proofs of F. B. Sanborn's First and last journeys of Thoreau (1905), his lecture to the Emerson Society, and a typescript of his essay "The Women of Concord."

ArchivalResource: 63 pieces, also ephemera.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/123464277 View

Concord Academic Debating Society (Concord, Mass.). Concord Academic Debating Society records, 1828-1830.

Title: Concord Academic Debating Society records, 1828-1830.

Records, 1828-1830, containing constitution, membership list, by-laws, and minutes of meetings. Records include references to the Thoreaus' debating activities, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37262706 View

Alcott, May. Papers of the Thoreau and Sewall families, 1790-1917, 1831-1876.

Title: Papers of the Thoreau and Sewall families, 1790-1917, 1831-1876.

The collection contains correspondence and manuscripts. The correspondence and manuscripts are arranged together alphabetically. The correspondence covers the years of 1790-1876, with the majority between 1831 and 1876. The majority of the correspondence is to or from Ellen Sewall Osgood. The collection also contains a scrapbook kept by several members of the Thoreau family. There is a rock labeled opal that was sent to Ellen Sewall Osgood by John Thoreau. The last item is a three-ring binder. It contains photocopies of typed transcriptions of the letters and manuscripts in the collection. There are also five ambrotypes of a man, woman, and three children-two girls and one boy. These ambrotypes were transferred over to Photo Archives on Sept. 23, 2002; call numbers photDAG 149-153.

ArchivalResource: 135 pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122499695 View

Brooks, Nathan, 1785-1863. Bills and receipts to Nathan Brooks, 1796-1863.

Title: Bills and receipts to Nathan Brooks, 1796-1863.

Bills, receipts, and accounts, 1796-1863 (collected, 1796-1863; uncollected, 1798-1847). Subseries includes bills, etc., relating to personal and family purchases and also to collection of bills for clients. Collected bills include three receipts from John Thoreau (father of Henry), one to N. Brooks for payment for 3 reams of paper (1827 Feb. 6), one for payment relating to insurance policies (1839 Oct. 7), one for payment by N. Brooks to Concord Fire Society (1841 Dec. 31); two receipts from Henry D. Thoreau to N. Brooks for payment for instruction of son George Brooks. (Cont.) and of Samuel Burr (1838 Sept. and Nov.) and one receipt from Henry D. Thoreau to the Misses Hosmer for surveying a woodlot (1845 Dec. 18); three receipts from John Thoreau (brother of Henry) to N. Brooks for instruction of George and of Samuel Burr (1839 May 31, Aug. 30, and Dec. 14); and one receipt from C.D. Thoreau (Henry's mother) for H.D. Thoreau to N. Brooks for payment for instruction of George and of Samuel Burr and for "squares of glass set" (1839 Feb. 29).

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35153988 View

Concord Academy (Concord, Mass. : 1822). Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].

Title: Concord Academy records and student compositions kept by schoolmaster Phineas Allen, 1828-[not after 1836].

Academy records, 1828-1830, plus undated items, include list of scholars (1828), lists of studies pursued, and lists of order of declamation and examination. Student compositions (most undated) include pieces by Caroline Downes Brooks, Sarah Brown, Sarah D. Clarke, Nancy Harmstad, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, Elizabeth Sherman Hoar (piece dated 1829), George Moore, Frances Jane H. Prichard, and "T."

ArchivalResource: 22 items ; 31 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37288535 View

Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1984. Daughter recalls her mother's story of rejecting Thoreau's proposal : typescript, [1962?] / by Brooks Atkinson.

Title: Daughter recalls her mother's story of rejecting Thoreau's proposal : typescript, [1962?] / by Brooks Atkinson.

Piece is a typescript from the New York Times about an article published in the Massachusetts Review by Louise Osgood Koopman concerning proposal of marriage from Henry David Thoreau to Ellen Sewall, and her rejection of the proposal. Ellen Sewall was Louise Osgood Koopman's mother. Piece also discusses earlier proposal of marriage by John Thoreau, Henry's brother. This proposal was also rejected.

ArchivalResource: 14 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48012789 View

Koopman, Louise Osgood. The Thoreau romance : typescript, 1961 June.

Title: The Thoreau romance : typescript, 1961 June.

Piece is about the proposal of marriage from Henry David Thoreau to Ellen Sewall, and her rejection of the proposal. Ellen Sewall was Louise Osgood Koopman's mother.

ArchivalResource: 14 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48012796 View

Holden family. Holden family financial papers, 1814-1872.

Title: Holden family financial papers, 1814-1872.

Financial papers, 1814-1872, generated by Silas Holden, his son Silas M. Holden, and Sarah Watson Prentiss Holden (grandfather, father, and mother of Silas Herbert Holden). Papers include bills, accounts, and receipts from: Daniel Shattuck (Daniel Shattuck & Co.); the Town of Acton; How & Hidden; Lawrence & Bacon (for shoes, boots, and footwear repair); Phineas How; John Thoreau (brother of H.D. Thoreau; for Silas M.'s tuition); William S. Robinson (for newspaper subscription); Nathan Cass (for manure); George M. Barrett (for use of bull); Jonas Melvin (for labor); James B. Wood ("dealer in lumber"). (Cont.) and Tuttles, Jones & Wetherbee of S. Acton. Papers also include one promissory note, Amos D. Farrar to Silas Holden.

ArchivalResource: 18 items ; 39 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37413632 View