Manuscripts

Part of the Map in Loskiel's History

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Description: Manuscript pen-and-ink map showing Pennsylvania and Northern Ohio, copied by Henry David Thoreau from George Henry Loskiel's History (London, 1794).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [before 1862]
Call number: mssHM 13200
Creator: Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Bixby sale.
Restrictions: RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.

Henry David Thoreau poems

Manuscripts

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.

mssHM 13190

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Henry David Thoreau and family correspondence

Manuscripts

Consists of 25 letters by Henry David Thoreau, dating from 1836 to 1861, chiefly to Daniel Ricketson; 13 letters from Sophia Thoreau to Ricketson, dating from 1861-1876; and 1 letter from John Thoreau to Ricketson, dated 1857.

mssHM 7002-7041

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Letters between Henry David Thoreau and Isaac Hecker

Manuscripts

Four letters between Henry David Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker consisting of: a letter to Thoreau from Hecker, New York, 1844 July 31, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20110); a letter to Thoreau from Hecker, New York, 1844 August 15, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20108); a letter to Hecker from Thoreau, 1844 August 14, A.L.S. 3 pp. (HM 20109); and a letter to Hecker from Thoreau, [1844], A.L.S. 2 pp., with a note by Hecker on the verso (HM 20107).

mssHM 20107-20110

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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers : early draft

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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Henry David Thoreau journal fragment

Manuscripts

Manuscript (holograph) of a fragment of a journal entry by Henry David Thoreau describing autumn foliage.

mssHM 13191

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Morning ; The Friend : [two poems]

Manuscripts

Manuscript (holograph) of two poems by Henry David Thoreau: "Morning" (consisting of 8 lines) and "The Friend" (consisting of 40 lines).

mssHM 13188

Part of the Map in Loskiel's History

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