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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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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
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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