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Henry David Thoreau collection

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203

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Harvard College Library, 1858 Dec 19

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
Dates: 1858 Dec 19
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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["April weather..."], notes, holograph manuscript, [1860?]

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
Dates: [1860?]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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["The discovery of America, and researches in central Africa"], holograph manuscript, corrected, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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"Independence," poem, holograph, 1841 Jul 30

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
Dates: 1841 Jul 30
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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"Travelling," poem, holograph, corrected, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
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Includes text on verso

Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Walden, draft of concluding paragraphs, holograph, 1864 Jun 17

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
Dates: 1864 Jun 17
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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"Plan of the Noah & Joshua Brooks Farm..." holograph, 1852 May

 Part of Collection — Box: BSD, folder 7
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series I
Dates: 1852 May
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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"General Phenomena for November," notes, holograph, corrected, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series II
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Stud sections and nails from Thoreau's cabin at Walden pond
Stud sections and nails from Thoreau's cabin at Walden pond

Stud sections and nails from Thoreau's cabin at Walden pond, [ca. 1845-46]

 Part of Collection — Box: ART, Folder: 9
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series II
Scope and Contents:

Includes letter, dated April 14, 1932, from Henry Seidel Canby

Dates: [ca. 1845-46]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Pencil sketch of Thoreau by D. Ricketson, photographic copy, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series II
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Holograph, [1851 Aug?]

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series III
Dates: [1851 Aug?]
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Typed version, corrected in unidentified hand, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series III
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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[Title page]
[Title page]

"A House Which I Had Myself Built," essay, typescript, corrected, 1949

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series III
Scope and Contents:

Includes photographs by Roland Wells Robbins and Edwin Way Teale

Dates: 1949
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Pencils and pencil box from J. Thoreau & Co.
Pencils and pencil box from J. Thoreau & Co.

Pencils and pencil box from J. Thoreau & Co., n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: ART, Folder: 14
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series III
Dates: n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Printed ephemera, 1938, n.d.

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series III
Dates: 1938, n.d.
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Surveyor's certificate in Thoreau's hand, 1850 Aug 15

 Part of Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203, Series III
Dates: 1850 Aug 15
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Holograph manuscript for "An[nual] Phenomena for December" (In Series I), 1850-61

 Part of Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203
Dates: 1850-61
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Holograph manuscript for "General Phenomena for October" (In Series I), 1852-61

 Part of Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203
Dates: 1852-61
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Holograph manuscript [On insects] (In Series I), 1851-54

 Part of Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203
Dates: 1851-54
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Plate 1
Plate 1

Photographs from "A House From Which I Had Myself Built" (In Series III), 1949

 Part of Collection — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Call Number: YCAL MSS 203
Dates: 1949
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library