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Manuscripts
General Phenomena for April; Phenomena for Feb. 1860 : indexes to the Journal, 1851-1860
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Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Manuscript (holograph). With marginal note on page 1 by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Written on the reverse of portions of Thoreau's "Plea for John Brown" (not in sequence).
mssHM 13202
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Manuscript (holograph, signed) commonplace book, "Index rerum," containing an index to Thoreau's Journal, a library catalogue, original compositions, and reviews of books. Partly in pencil. Laid into the volume is a letter to Thoreau from Ticknor & Fields, 1862 April 11 (incomplete); a list of books from Thoreau's library by Elizabeth J. Weir; and a list of "Books in my possession," by F. H. Bigelow, 1872 June.
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Manuscript (holograph) of fragments of the journal of Henry David Thoreau in 3 envelopes. Envelope I contains 30 leaves are assigned by F.B. Sanborn to a period before 1848, including 20 consecutive leaves for 1843 September 24-1844 January 7. Envelope II contains 52 leaves said by Sanborn to be portions of a Journal volume covering the greater part of 1848, the whole of 1849, and more than 3 months of 1850. There is a partial index to this volume in Thoreau's hand. Envelope III contains a miscellaneous group of 13 leaves, dated about 1842-1850 that were segregated by reasons of publication.
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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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Manuscript (holograph) of notes on nature during the months of April and May in 1851-1853, compiled from Thoreau's journal and written on the reverse of a summons to Henry David Thoreau to appear at the Court of Common Pleas in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the case of Leonard Spalding Lots vs. Wm. C. Benjamin.
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Manuscript (holograph) of a fragment of Henry David Thoreau's journal for May 9 and May 17, 1853, headed "Miscellaneous. At Sundown on river."
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