Journal : autograph manuscript signed : [Concord], Fall 1839-1840 July 27 [transcribed 1841] | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Publication:Collection of Thoreau journals

Genre:Diary

Physical Description:1 volume (approximately 120 pages), bound ; 20.3 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:441957597

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With quotations from Plutarch, Horace, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, and others

Written on 120 pages, paginated 1-56, 59-62, 67-126, 128-130. Front free endpaper, front flyleaf, p. 127 unnumbered; p. 57-58, 63-66 excised

Thoreau excised fourteen leaves at the front of the volume, inverted it, and wrote the Journal text from back to front. Signed Henry D. Thoreau at the foot of p. 130 (signature is upside-down)

MA 1302.2 is an 1841 transcription of Thoreau's original journal. Thoreau originally began his journal in two large volumes, of 546 and 396 pages respectively. These first two original volumes were transcribed into four smaller journals by Thoreau after 31 January 1841 (possibly in October-November 1841). Neither of the two original volumes is extant, although a few scattered leaves from the first and Thoreau's partial indexes to both volumes survive. MA 1302.1 and MA 1302.2 (p. 1-73) consist of the 1841 transcription of the first original volume of the journal.--Cf. Broderick

In 1878-1885, H.G.O. Blake published selections from Thoreau's journals. This volume has blue pencil use-marks by Blake on 57 pages

Part of a collection of 39 journals written by Thoreau between 1837 and 1861. The journals are described in 39 individual records

With penciled notes on 3 preliminary pages and index to the volume on the back paste-down

High reserve