THOREAU
Walden and other manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) from the Huntington Library
REEL 1
HM 924
Walden, or Life in the Woods [Holograph manuscript, includes parts of early versions, 1184pp]
REEL 2
HM 925
Walden, or Life in the Woods [Corrected proof, 119pp]
HM 956
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [early, incomplete draft of Monday and Tuesday, 56pp]
HM 13194
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [fragments of an early draft, 6pp]
HM 13195
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [early draft, 84pp]
RB 110229
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [corrections to a printed copy, 413pp]
HM 931
Journal [fragment headed: Miscellaneous - At sundown on river, 4pp]
HM 22230
Letter from Thoreau to Emerson concerning the Journal
HM 933
Journal [entries for: July 11-12, 1851 and Dec 2, 8 & 15, 1853, 5pp]
HM 954
[Miscellaneous observations on the phenomena of nature, 216pp]
REEL 3
HM 13182
Journal [fragment, 175pp]
HM 13196
Love and Friendship [27pp]
HM 13191
Journal [fragment describing Autumn foliage, 2pp]
HM 13200
Part of Map in Loskiel’s History [1p]
HM 13192
[Notes on a journey from Concord, Massachusetts, to Minnesota, and return, 100pp]
HM 13198
[Nature notes and court summons, 11pp]
HM 13199
The Maine Woods [early draft of Part III, 10pp, two versions]
HM 13203
General Phenomena for April [and] Phenomena for Feb 1860 [indexes to the Journal, 14pp]
HM 13202
Order of flowers accidentally observed [6pp] [also includes A Plea for John Brown [fragments]
HM 13206
Cape Cod [draft, with later notes, corrections, and additions, bearing the title: A Course of Lectures on Cape Cod, 322pp]
REEL 4
HM 949
An Excursion to Canada [An early draft, in lecture form, 196pp]
HM 950
An Excursion to Canada [A revised version of chapters I & II, incomplete, 57pp]
HM 957
Commonplace Book [partly in the hand of Sophia E Thoreau, 49pp]
HM 945
Index Rerum [Contains a library catalogue, reviews of books and a further Index to the Journal, 76pp]
HM 953
An Excursion to Canada [final version, 214pp]
HM 934
College Essays [Including Of Keeping a Private Journal; Whether the Cultivation of the Imigination Conduce to the Happiness of the Individual; On the anxieties and delights of a discoverer; and On the advantages and disadvantages of foreign influence on American literature, 30pp]
HM 935
Sir Walter Raleigh [First draft, 103pp]
HM 943
Sir Walter Raleigh [Final draft, 83pp]
REEL 5
HM 926
Prometheus Bound [translated from Aeschylus, draft, 44pp]
Poems:
HM 1225
"Tell Shakespeare to attend some leisure hour"
HM 13183
To the Mountains
HM 13184
The Departure
HM 13185
The Funeral Bell
HM 13187
The Virgin
HM 13186
Independence [early draft]
HM 13188
Morning/The Friend
HM 13190
Poems [in the hand of Sophia E Thoreau and including Haze, "Our morn is gone," Voyager’s Song, Change Not, A Rural Scene, Afternoon in May, The Ark, The Prayer, "Every little spring flows on," and "My feeble bark has reached the shore." (Michaelangelo)]
HM 13197
Godfrey of Boulogne
HM 13201
Gratitude [with drafts and fragments of verse, 24pp]
HM 13204
Pindar [fragments in translation, 24pp]
HM 13193
Seven Against Thebes [translated from Aeschylus, draft, 44pp]
Letters to and from H D Thoreau (henceforth HDT) in date order. Comprising:
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Henry Vose
Place: Concord
Date: 5 July 1836
Sender: HDT
Recipient: John Thoreau
Place: Concord
Date: 17 Mar 1838
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Place: Castleton, Staten Island
Date: 23 May ?
Sender: HDT
Recipient: [Mrs Cynthia Thoreau]
Place: Staten Island
Date: 7 July 1843
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Helen Thoreau
Place: Staten Island
Date: 21 July 1843
Sender: HDT
Recipient: [Mrs Cynthia Thoreau]
Place: Staten Island
Date: 1 Oct 1843
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Helen Thoreau
Place: Staten Island
Date: 18 Oct 1843
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Isaac Hecker(also includes note from Isaac Hecker to HDT)
Place: Concord
Date: 14 Aug 1844
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Sophia [Thoreau]
Place: Concord
Date: 13 July 1852
Sender: HDT
Recipient: B M Watson
Place: Concord
Date: 19 Sep 1854
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 1 Oct 1854
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 19 Dec 1854
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 6 Jan 1855
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 27 Sep 1855
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 12 Oct 1855
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 25 Dec 1855
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 5 Mar 1856
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 2 Sep 1856
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Sophia [Thoreau]
Place: Eagleswood, New Jersey
Date: 1 Nov 1856
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 13 May 1857
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 9 Sep 1857
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 31 Oct 1857
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 6 Nov 1857
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 22 Mar 1858
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 12 Feb 1859
Sender: Charles C Morse
Recipient: HDT
Place: Rochester, New York
Date: nd
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Charles C Morse
Place: Concord
Date: 12 Jul 1860
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 4 Nov 1860
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 22 Mar ?
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 15 Aug 1861
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Daniel Ricketson
Place: Concord
Date: 14 Oct 1861
Sender: L Johnson & Co
Recipient: Sophia Thoreau
Place: Philadelphia
Date: 22 Aug 1856
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Messrs Editors (draft)
Place: Concord
Date: 11 Feb 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Messrs Editors
Place: Concord
Date: 11 Feb 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 20 Feb 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 24 Feb 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 28 Feb 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 1 Mar 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 4 Mar 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 11 Mar 1862
Sender: HDT
Recipient: Ticknor & Fields
Place: Concord
Date: 2 Apr 1862
Sender: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recipient: HDT
Place: -
Date: Thursday 1pm
Sender: Horace Greeley
Recipient: HDT
Place: New York
Date: 23 Nov ?
Sender: Isaac Hecker
Recipient: HDT
Place: New York
Date: 31 Jul 1844
Sender: Isaac Hecker
Recipient: HDT
Place: New York
Date: 15 Aug 1844
Sender: L Johnson & Co
Recipient: HDT
Place: Philadelphia
Date: 6 Dec 1861
Sender: Daniel Ricketson
Recipient: HDT
Place: Brooklawn, Mass
Date: 12 Aug 1854
Sender: Ticknor & Fields
Recipient: HDT
Place: Boston
Date: 4 Apr 1862
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