Series I Manuscripts by Henry David Thoreau

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1. [Autumnal Tints]. Holograph fragment. Unsigned and undated.
2. [Autumnal Tints]. 3 pages of holograph draft. Unsigned and undated.
3. [Autumnal Tints]. 3 pages of holograph draft. Unsigned and undated.
4. [The Cliffs and Springs]. Holograph copy of the poem.
5. Cock-crowing. Holograph poem. Unsigned and undated.
6. [Commonplace Book]. Signed, undated.
7. Extracts, mostly upon Natural History. [A commonplace book.]
8. The Dispersion of Seeds [and related matters]
9. The Fall of the Leaf. Holograph poem. Unsigned and undated.
10. The Fall of the Leaf. Holograph poem. Unsigned and undated. Mutilated.
11. The Flowering of Plants, accidentally observed in '51, with considerable care in '52; the Spring of '51 being 10 days and more earlier than that of '52. The names are those used by Gray. Holograph, unsigned.
12. "The good how can we trust?"
13. Growth and leafing for June. 5 leaves of holograph notes, unsigned, covering 1851-1860.
14. "I love a careless streamlet..." Poem in: Russell, Charles Theodore, Memento of my class mates, Autograph album from Harvard, 1837.
15. [Journal] Unsigned, dated Walden, April 17, 1846.
16. [Journal extracts] Draft of "Huckleberries", based on Journal entries.
17. [Nature and Bird Notes.] MS journal and list of birds, kept by Sophia, John and H. D. Thoreau. Also contains HDT's A Walk to Wachusett.
18. [Nature and Bird Notes.] Flowers and plants pressed in volume, some with pencil notes identifying them on scraps of paper.
19. [Nature notes]. Holograph notes, unsigned, 1852-1860.
20. [Night and Moonlight]. Holograph notes, unsigned and undated.
21. [Notes of birds, insects, etc.]. Holograph notes, unsigned, observed March 1859.
22. [Notes on flowers]. Holograph notes on flowers and flowering dates.
23. Notes on fruits. 306 leaves of holograph draft and notes, unsigned and undated. (Much now published in Wild Fruits.)
24. Notes on fruits. 4 leaves of holograph draft and 2 scraps. Unsigned and undated. (Now published as opening of Wild Fruits.)
25. [Notes on general phenomena]. Holograph notes.
26. [Notes, miscellaneous]. Holograph notes, draft fragments, lists, reading notes, etc.
27. Plan of the Land in Haverhill, Mass., belonging to Elizabeth How. Surveyed by Henry D. Thoreau, Oct. 31, 1859.
28. [A Plea for Captain John Brown], notes for lecture, holograph, unsigned, undated.
29. [Walden]. 1 leaf of holograph draft. Unsigned and undated.
30. Rosa Sanguinea (which opened Dec 2d). Autograph late draft of four lines.
31. Walden Pond. A reduced plan. 1846. Original pencil map.
32. A Walk to Wachusett. Holograph draft, dated 1842.
33. [Walking]. Fragment of manuscript version. 1 leaf, unsigned, undated.
34. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Early holograph draft of chapters "Concord River" and "Saturday." Unsigned, part dated "Sat. Aug. 31, 1839."
35. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Journal entry, dated "Wednesday, Sept. 4." Partly basis for part of "Wednesday."
36. Wild Apples. 4 leaves of holograph draft, unsigned and undated.
37. [A Yankee in Canada]. Fragment of manuscript version.