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Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau

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Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau (1898)
Henry David Thoreau and Sophia Thoreau, edited by Samuel Arthur Jones
Henry David Thoreau and Sophia Thoreau2583254Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau1898Samuel Arthur Jones
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau

Henry D. Thoreau, age 44.

From an ambrotype by Dunshee, of New Bedford, Mass.,
taken in August, 1861. Thoreau died the following spring.

SOME UNPUBLISHED
LETTERS OF

HENRY D. AND SOPHIA E.

THOREAU

A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY
OF A STILL-BORN BOOK

"He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws."

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî.

EDITED WITH A PREFATORY NOTE
BY
SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES


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PRINTED ON THE MARION PRESS
Jamaica, Queensborough, New-York
1899

ILLUSTRATIONS.

OPP. PAGE
Henry D. Thoreau, age 44 Title
Home of the Thoreau family 22
Henry D. Thoreau, age 39 37
Henry David Thoreau, age 37 53
Sophia E. Thoreau 72
Burial-plot of the Thoreau family 80

From negatives by
Alfred W. Hosmer,
Concord, Mass.

One hundred and fifty copies printed.
No. 5

Copyright, 1898, by
Samuel Arthur Jones.


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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