Edwin Way Teale papers relating to Thoreau and to Concord, Mass., 1918-1980 (bulk 1940-1980).

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Edwin Way Teale papers relating to Thoreau and to Concord, Mass., 1918-1980 (bulk 1940-1980).

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Correspondence (1941-1975) primarily reflecting Teale's involvement in Thoreau Society (with major sequences from Raymond Adams, Francis H. Allen, Theodore Bailey, Walter Harding, Ira Hoover, Gladys Hosmer, Leonard F. Kleinfeld, Roland Wells Robbins, and Ruth Wheeler); research notes and working papers accumulated in preparing publications, lectures, and seminars (most of the material organized and arranged by Teale himself). (Cont.) ms. notebooks; scrapbooks compiled by Teale; pictorial material (but only a few photographs by Teale); reprints; library and museum publications; mailings from various organizations; publishers' prospectuses and advertisements for books on Thoreau and Concord; galley proofs for two of Teale's books; clippings (some about Concord, Thoreau, Walden Pond, and the Thoreau Society, some about Teale's writings); an extensive body of material generated by the Thoreau Society between 1941 and 1976; and 108 printed items from Teale's personal library.

16.9 linear ft.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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SNAC Resource ID: 7348575

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Thoreau Society

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Hoover, Ira

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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....

Allen, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1866-1953

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Harding, Walter, 1917-1996

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Adams, Raymond, 1898-1987

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Kleinfeld, Leonard F.

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Wheeler, Ruth Winifred Robinson, 1890-1973

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Ruth Robinson is a historian and author of Concord, Mass. From the description of Photograph album, from the papers of Ruth R. Wheeler, containing views by an unidentified photographer, mainly of Concord, Mass., taken along or from the Sudbury and Concord Rivers, ca. 1900-ca. 1903. (Concord Public Library). WorldCat record id: 47688451 Artist and illustrator N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945) was an admirer of Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862). Inspired by Thoreau's life and wor...

Hosmer, Gladys E. H. (Gladys Eleanor Holden)

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Robbins, Roland Wells, 1908-1987

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Bailey, Theodore N.

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Teale, Edwin Way, 1899-1980

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Naturalist and photographer, of Hampton, Conn.; d. 1980. From the description of Edwin Way Teale papers, 1799-1995. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28420481 Naturalist, author, photographer. Born Joliet Ill. 6/2/99; died Norwich, Conn. 10/18/80. Staff writer for Popular science, 1928-41; free-lance writer & photographer, 1941-80; contributing editor for Audubon, 1942-80. Winner of John Burroughs Medal (1943), Pulitzer Prize (1966), & numerous other a...