THOREAU

Walden and other manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) from the Huntington Library

This is an essential source for all those doing detailed work on:

• the life and writings of Henry David Thoreau;
• natural history writing and ecology;
• transcendental philosophy, civil disobedience and non-violence;
• the 19th Century New England influence on American Literature.

This project brings together a magnificent array of sources from the Huntington Library including:

• The holograph manuscript of Walden, or Life in the Woods [1184pp, HM 924], plus annotated proofs of the printed edition.
• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [various manuscript versions],
  Cape Cod [322pp, HM 13206], and An Excursion to Canada [various drafts].
• Many individual essays and poems.
• An important collection of letters to, from and relating to Thoreau. Correspondents include John Thoreau , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, Ticknor & Fields, Daniel Ricketson, and Sophia Thoreau.