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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
One-page draft (in pencil) of a letter from Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, to the firm of Ticknor & Fields. Written on the reverse of a letter from L. Johnson & Co. to John Thoreau.
mssHM 209
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Manuscript (holograph) of a fragment of a journal entry by Henry David Thoreau describing autumn foliage.
mssHM 13191
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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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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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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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One-page autograph signed letter from Thoreau in Concord, Massachusetts, to Charles C. Morse, in Rochester, New York, written in pencil on the inside of a one-page letter from Morse to Thoreau. In the letter, Thoreau briefly describes his relationship to science and nature.
mssHM 20592