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Love and Friendship : draft of an essay
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers : early draft, incomplete
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.
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Calendar for March : index to the Journal, approximately 1860
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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
General Phenomena for April; Phenomena for Feb. 1860 : indexes to the Journal, 1851-1860
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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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Sir Walter Raleigh : final draft
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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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An excursion to Canada : early draft
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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
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Sir Walter Raleigh : first draft
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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