[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.

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{"value"=>"[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."}
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{"value"=>"1837 - circa 1842", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1837/1842"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"(1 leaf and 1 double leaf laid in; 15 leaves excised).<br/>Leaves of main part numbered up to 74 by Thoreaus.<br/>Volume also numbered in pencil by library, omitting blank pages.<br/>39 leaves: index & 1-74 (pencil 1-61): classified headings of avifauna and observations between 1837 and 1842.<br/>[15 leaves excised]<br/>see below: (pencil 62): fragment, upside down: \"It may be as well if first of all I should [sic] some account first of off my own species and sanity...\"<br/>laid in: 1 double leaf: observations by John and Henry Thoreau<br/>13 leaves: (pencil 63-87): A Walk to Wachusett (q.v.)<br/>11 leaves: (pencil 20-1): starting at back and upside down, reported bird behavior (Peabody and Nuttall); the months, with bird observations.<br/>laid in: 1 leaf: HDT observations.<br/>Throughout the book, plants were laid in to be pressed and preserved, many with scraps of paper with botanical or common name in HDT's hand (49 items now removed to manuscript boxes)."}
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{"value"=>"<p>William Howarth, The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1974): B40b, B41b, B90, F17;<br/>A Walk to Wachusett: C4a.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Stephen H. Wakeman; W. T. H. Howe.</p>"}
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63 leaves
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1837
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1842

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