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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
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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 draft, incomplete, of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau.
mssHM 13195
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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
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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
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of an early draft of "Independence," a poem in 4 stanzas of 4 lines each. On the reverse: 2 stanzas of verse (in pencil).
mssHM 13186
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Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph) of two fragments of an early draft of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" by Henry David Thoreau.
mssHM 13194
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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