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THOREAU:
Walden and Other Manuscripts from Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) from the Huntington Library
Contents of Reels
REEL ONE
HM 924 Walden, or Life in the Woods
[Holograph manuscript, includes parts of early versions, 1184pp]
REEL TWO
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 THREE
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 FOUR
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 FIVE
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 - Recipient - Place - Date
HDT Henry Vose Concord 5 July 1836
HDT John Thoreau Concord 17 Mar 1838
HDT Ralph Waldo Emerson Castleton, Staten Island 23 May ?
HDT [Mrs Cynthia Thoreau] Staten Island 7 July 1843
HDT Helen Thoreau Staten Island 21 July 1843
HDT [Mrs Cynthia Thoreau] Staten Island 1 Oct 1843
HDT Helen Thoreau Staten Island 18 Oct 1843
HDT Isaac Hecker Concord 14 Aug 1844
(also includes note from Isaac Hecker to HDT)
HDT Sophia [Thoreau] Concord 13 July 1852
HDT B M Watson Concord 19 Sep 1854
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 1 Oct 1854
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 19 Dec 1854
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 6 Jan 1855
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 27 Sep 1855
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 12 Oct 1855
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 25 Dec 1855
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 5 Mar 1856
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 2 Sep 1856
HDT Sophia [Thoreau] Eagleswood, New Jersey 1 Nov 1856
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 13 May 1857
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 9 Sep 1857
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 31 Oct 1857
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 6 Nov 1857
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 22 Mar 1858
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 12 Feb 1859
Charles C Morse HDT Rochester, New York nd
HDT Charles C Morse Concord 12 Jul 1860
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 4 Nov 1860
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 22 Mar ?
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 15 Aug 1861
HDT Daniel Ricketson Concord 14 Oct 1861
L Johnson & Co Sophia Thoreau Philadelphia 22 Aug 1856
HDT Messrs Editors (draft) Concord 11 Feb 1862
HDT Messrs Editors Concord 11 Feb 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 20 Feb 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 24 Feb 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 28 Feb 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 1 Mar 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 4 Mar 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 11 Mar 1862
HDT Ticknor & Fields Concord 2 Apr 1862
Ralph Waldo Emerson HDT - Thursday 1pm
Horace Greeley HDT New York 23 Nov ?
Isaac Hecker HDT New York 31 Jul 1844
Isaac Hecker HDT New York 15 Aug 1844
L Johnson & Co HDT Philadelphia 6 Dec 1861
Daniel Ricketson HDT Brooklawn, Mass 12 Aug 1854
Ticknor & Fields HDT Boston 4 Apr 1862
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