Correspondence relating to the Lownes Collection of Henry David Thoreau, 1900-1966.

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Correspondence relating to the Lownes Collection of Henry David Thoreau, 1900-1966.

Includes his background notes and bibliographic information; TMsS essay by Randall Stewart, The Growth of Thoreau's Reputation; letters to and from book dealers, publishers, naturalists, and Thoreau specialists. Correspondents include Randall Stewart; Edwin B. Hill (Houghton Mifflin and Co.); Ernest W. Vickers; Raymond Adams; Alexander Greene; Arthur Christy; Carl Bode; S. Foster Damon; Goodspeed's Book Shop, Inc. (Boston); Walter Harding (The Thoreau Society); Roland Wells Robbins; and Edwin Moser.

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