Henry David Thoreau Papers 1837-1917 1837-1860

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Henry David Thoreau Papers 1837-1917 1837-1860

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The Berg Collection's manuscript holdings by Henry David Thoreau include approximately thirty-fivemanuscripts and manuscript fragments, journals and a commonplace book. In addition, there are thirty-two letters tonumerous recipients as well as in-coming pieces from over fifty correspondents. Highlights of the collection includean important portion of the "Ktaadn" section of The Maine Woods; "Nature and Bird Notes," a journal kept by Henry,Johnand Sophia Thoreau with leaves, grass and wild flowers laid in; and Thoreau's famous letter to his brotheraddressed to Sachem Hopeful of Hopewell and signed Tahatawan. The Berg also has a daguerreotypeof Thoreau ("myfriends think [it] is pretty good though better looking than I"), a pencil made by him (his father's companymanufactured them), and an original pencil map of Walden Pond.

2.6 linear ft. (ca. 80 items)

The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.

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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862

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Henry David Thoreau (b. July 12, 1817, Concord, Massachusetts-d. May 6, 1862, Concord, Massachusetts), American author, lecturer, naturalist, student of Native American artifacts and life, transcendentalist, land surveyor, and life-long resident of Concord, Massachusetts. He was an active opponent of slavery and a social critic. He graduated from Harvard College in 1837....