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College essays of Henry David Thoreau

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Description
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).
Type
Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date
1834-1836.
Call number
mssHM 934
Creator
Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance
Purchased from Anderson Galleries George S. Hellman sale (catalog 1449, lot 390), November 1919.
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Associated people
Hellman, George S. (1878-1958,)
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