Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books

by Annie Russell Marble

 

HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Photogravure of a portrait from life

 

 

THOREAU

HIS HOME, FRIENDS
AND BOOKS

BY
ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE

"Rather than love, than money, than fame,

give me truth." Walden

 

 

New York
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS

 

 

Copyright, 1902
By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.

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Published October, 1902

 

 

TO MY HUSBAND

"As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming
stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer
and winter, I love thee, my Friend."

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.

 

 

CONTENTS

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1. CHAP.

   PAGE

2. I.

   Thoreau's Concord and Its Environs ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   1

3. II.

   The Thoreau Family ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   29

4. III.

   The Years of Preparation ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   63

5. IV.

   The Walden Experiment ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   101

6. V.

   The Years of Expression ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   141

7. VI.

   Thoreau's Philosophy and Art of Life ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   181

8. VII.

   Thoreau and His Friends ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   215

9. VIII.

   Thoreau as Naturalist ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   259

10. IX.

    Thoreau's Service and Rank in Literature ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    295

11. Index ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    337

 

 

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PHOTOGRAVURES

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1. PAGE

2. Henry David Thoreau, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   (Frontispiece)

3. From Nashawtuc Hill, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   6

4. Birthplace of Thoreau, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   36

5. Walden Pond, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   82

6. Site of Thoreau' s House, Walden, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   118

7. Thoreau's Main Street House, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   149

8. Furniture used at Walden, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   193

9. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

   223

10. Harrison Gray Otis Blake, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    255

11. Fairhaven Bay, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    268

12. Thoreau' s Journal, ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

    305

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(Photographs obtained through the courtesy of Mr. Alfred Hosmer, of Concord.)