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Henry David Thoreau poems

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Description
Manuscript poems by Henry David Thoreau copied in the hand of Thoreau's sister Sophia E. Thoreau. Contents: Haze (page 1a); The Funeral Bell (pages 1a-b); Voyagers Song. 1837 June (page 2a); Change Not (page 2b); A Rural Scene, afternoon in May (page 3a); The Ark (page 4a); Enoch (page 4a); The Prayer (page 4b); "Every little spring flows on …" (page 5a); "My feeble bark has reached the shore…" (Michelangelo) (page 6a). At the top of page 1 there is a penciled note of authentication by F. B. Sanborn. A leaf containing 2 pages of penciled notes about books, in Sophia Thoreau's hand, is laid with the above.
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
approximately 1837-1867.
Call number
mssHM 13190
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Anderson Galleries, Huntington-Bixby-Church sale, no. 901, March 1916.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
9 3/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Associated people
Bixby, William K.
Thoreau, Sophia E.
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