Malcolm M. Ferguson papers accumulated through membership in organizations for the preservation and restoration of Walden Pond, 1957-1975 (bulk 1973-1975).

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Malcolm M. Ferguson papers accumulated through membership in organizations for the preservation and restoration of Walden Pond, 1957-1975 (bulk 1973-1975).

Papers (mainly photocopied typescripts) relate to activities of Walden Pond Advisory Council, Walden Pond Restoration Committee, Walden Pond Advisory Committee, & Friends of Walden Pond; include membership list, attendance lists, minutes, memoranda, agendas, agreement (between Middlesex County Commissioners & Gardiner Associates), invoice, time sheet, cost estimate, proposals & recommendations, progress reports, news release, newsletters, landscape plans. Environmental impact statement (relating to proposed highway relocation), & clippings. Papers include correspondence to & from Middlesex County Commissioners, typescript remarks of welcome by Malcolm Ferguson to Thoreau Society, July, 1973.

ca. 90 items ; 44 cm. or smaller.

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Walden Pond Advisory Committee

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Richard A. Gardiner and Associates, Inc.

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Middlesex County (Mass.). Commissioners

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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....

Walden Pond Advisory Council

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Massachusetts. Dept. of Natural Resources.

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Ferguson, Malcolm M.

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Concord, Mass., resident; librarian, book dealer; board member of Thoreau Lyceum. During 1970's, member of several bodies devoted to management of Walden Pond State Reservation as natural, historical, & recreational resource. Walden Pond Advisory Council, formed to develop plan for restoration & preservation of Walden, 1st met Apr. 28, 1973. Reporting to Middlesex County Commissioners (then administrators of Walden Pond State Reservation), Council considered presence & l...

Walden Pond Advisory Council. Walden Pond Restoration Committee

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Friends of Walden Pond, Inc.

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