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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of an early, incomplete draft of "Monday" and "Tuesday" of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau, with annotations by F. B. Sanborn. 5 leaves have been torn and repaired. Includes separated binding, housed separately.
mssHM 956

Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph). With marginal note on page 1 by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Written on the reverse of portions of Thoreau's "Plea for John Brown" (not in sequence).
mssHM 13202

Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of notes by Henry David Thoreau of natural phenomena for April, 1851-1860, used as an index to Thoreau's journal. Laid into a folder bearing a note by F. B. Sanborn. Partly written on the reverse of portions of a draft of Thoreau's "Plea for John Brown."
mssHM 13203
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of a final draft of an essay on Sir Walter Raleigh by Henry David Thoreau, with corrections in pencil. Some leaves cut.
mssHM 943
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph), partly in pencil, of the first lecture draft of an essay on Sir Walter Raleigh, incomplete, with notes. Some pages are cut or torn.
mssHM 935
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of an early draft, in lecture form, of "An excursion to Canada" (later published as part of "A Yankee in Canada," 1866). Leaf 90 is a certificate by Thoreau of his measurement of a woodlot (1851 December 8). With a note appended by F.B. Sanborn, 1907.
mssHM 949