Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau

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Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau (1894)
Henry David Thoreau, ed. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

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787635Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau1894Henry David Thoreau, ed. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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FAMILIAR LETTERS OF
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

by

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1894

CONTENTS.

		page
Introduction		v
I. YEARS OF DISCIPLINE.
Sketch of Thoreau's Life from Birth to Twenty Years		1
Letters to his Brother John and Sister Helen		12
Early Friendship and Correspondence with Emerson and his Family		39
Staten Island and New York Letters to the Thoreaus and Emersons		76
II. THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACHIEVEMENT.
Correspondence with C. Lane, J. E. Cabot, Emerson, and Blake		146
III. FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS.
The Shipwreck of Margaret Fuller		220
An Essay on Love and Chastity		237
Moral Epistles to Harrison Blake of Worcester		251
Excursions to Cape Cod, New Bedford, New Hampshire, New York, and New Jersey		302
Excursions to Monadnoc and Minnesota		421
Last Illness and Death		460
Index		465

Copyright, 1894,
By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company

W. Ricketson, Sc.

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