Autograph letter signed : New York, to his mother, Cynthia Thoreau, 1843 Aug. 29.

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Autograph letter signed : New York, to his mother, Cynthia Thoreau, 1843 Aug. 29.

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Describing going to booksellers and publishers to look for work; mentioning a severe rainstorm; discussing their acquaintances in Concord; noting that he got a stranger's ticket for a month at the Mercantile Library and read [Thomas] Carlyle's latest article. A postcript notes that he bought pantaloons for "$2.25 ready made."

1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7188688

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Thoreau, Cynthia D. (Cynthia Dunbar), 1787-1872

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Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881

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Scottish historian and social critic considered the most important philosophical moralist of the early Victorian age. From the description of Letter, 1841. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122461042 Scottish essayist and historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gt. Malvern, to Robert Browning, 1851 Aug. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133400 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Chelsea, London, to William Tait, 1834 S...

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....