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Henry David Thoreau poems, essay, and fragments

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Description: Manuscript (holograph), some written in pencil, of poems, an essay on "Gratitude" (February 24, 1838), and fragments from a commonplace book.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [1836-1841]
Call number: mssHM 13201
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.
Dimensions: various sizes.
Associated people: Bixby, William K. (1857-1931,)
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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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College essays of Henry David Thoreau

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Manuscript (holograph, signed) of essays created while Henry David Thoreau was a student at Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Contains: Of Keeping a Private Journal, [1835, January 7] (pages 1-3) ; Whether the Cultivation of the Imagination Conduce to the Happiness of the Individual, 1836 September (pages 4-7); [On the variety of energy in men] (pages 8-10); [On the anxieties and delights of a discoverer] (pages 11-13); Explain the Phrases, - A Man of Business a Man of Pleasure, a Man of the World (pages 14-16); [On becoming what others think us to be] (pages 17-18); [On Henry N. Coleridge's book, Introductions to the study of the Greek classic poets], 1836 October 1 (pages 19-26); [On the advantage and disadvantages of foreign influence on American literature], incomplete, 1836 April (pages 29-30).

mssHM 934

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Fragments from Pindar : translation into English

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Manuscript (holograph), in pencil, of draft of "Pindar," fragments in translation. Accompanied by a printed version.

mssHM 13204

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Henry David Thoreau poems

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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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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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Love and Friendship : draft of an essay

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Manuscript (holograph) draft of an essay on "Love" and "Chastity and Sensuality." With two marginal annotations by F. B. Sanborn.

mssHM 13196

Henry David Thoreau poems, essay, and fragments

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