Walden Manuscript Search Tool

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--Front cover of Volume I of HM 924, the manuscript of Walden, at the Huntington Library. Search tool includes all images of HM 924, including non-manuscript images such as this one. First MS page is Image #8.
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ANiWNot in Walden: related to a February 1, 1852, Journal entry that in turn is associated with T's essay "Life without Principle," delivered as lectures titled "What Shall It Profit?" and "Life Misspent," from Dec 6, 1854, through Sept 9, 1860. Brad Dean writes that the inception of LwP was an index of J passages headed "Art of Life" that T compiled in late October 1854 ("Reconstruction of T's Early 'LwP' Lectures," [SAR 1987, p. 288]). The Feb 1, 1852, J passages are revised in ink and pencil and have a vertical use mark drawn through them vertically in pencil. Evidence that this paragraph was added to this leaf after A was composed in 1846-47: 1) "how many in the last month have started for California" refers to the gold rush, which began in earnest in 1849. 2) relationship of contents to 1852 J entry, noted above. 3) first level of handwriting on recto is carefully spaced and runs on as part of a larger work, prob lecture, because written on one side of leaf; paragraph on verso stands alone, hand is looser, suitable for a note to self but not for reading from the lecture stage. T could have chosen this leaf (or this leaf with others) as he was compiling material for LwP because contents of recto also fit "Art of Life" theme. Perhaps in 1854 T added it to that material; if so, somewhere along the line of transmission someone (Sanborn? the dealer George Hellman?) sorted it in with the leaves of A. BW 5.27.20
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AEco-5a Eco-6 Eco-7T's "3" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-7 Eco-8aT's "5" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-10aPortion of leaf
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AEco-11 Eco-83d Eco-13bPortion of leaf
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AEco-10a Eco-12a Eco-12cT's "7" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-15a Eco-13a Eco-16T's "9" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-16 Eco-86c Eco-17b-
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AEco-17b Eco-17f Eco-17d Eco-42b Eco-17e Eco-18T's "11" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-20 Eco-21 Eco-22NB: Image of verso precedes image of recto
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AEco-22 Eco-23 Eco-24T's "15" in pencil in upper right corner
Tranposition: marked in ink over pencil; numbered "1" and "2" in ink (order of turtle dove and bay horse reversed). This is one of the best known passages in Walden.
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AEco-25 Eco-23 Eco-26 Eco-27Cancellation: Ink X made with straight lines over contents of entire page
Transposition: marked in ink, no numbers ("I have" marked to change to "have I")
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AEco-27 Eco-28 Eco-29 Eco-30T's "17" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-30 Eco-32 Eco-33-
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AEco-32Portion of leaf
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AEco-33T's "19" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-34 Eco-35aT's "21" in pencil in upper right corner
Cancellation: Passage parenthesized in pencil then in ink; cancelled with straight, slanting pencilled lines and wavy pencilled line; passage is surrounded by ink line; ink line angles across passage; cancelled with wavy ink line. I judge that pencilled marks preceded ink ones.
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AEco-35a Eco-35c Eco-35bCancellation: Straight ink lines over straight pencilled lines
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AEco-35b Eco-35f Eco-35k Eco-36T's "23" in pencil in upper right corner
Eco-35b: comfort of wearing . . . character.
Eco-35f: We know . . . scarecrow?
Eco-35k: Above all . . . endless.
Eco-36: A man . . . so that it was
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AEco-37b Eco-39aCancellation: Passage circled in pencil and cancelled with wavy pencilled lines; ink X made with wavy lines over contents of 2/3 of page
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AEco-39a Eco-41 Eco-40a-
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AEco-37bT's "25" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-42a Eco-44a Eco-42b Eco-42c-
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AEco-42c Eco-43b Eco-44cT's "27" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-45c Eco-52a Eco-53a Eco-52bT's "29" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-49a Eco-50 Eco-54aT's "31" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-56aT's "33" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-56a Eco-56c Eco-59Insertion: two points of brace that begins in left margin of hm924v1n50
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AEco-59 Eco-51T's "35" in pencil in upper right corner
Insertion: Interesting marking going on in the lower part of the page, where T recounts the fable of Momus. He revises his initial writing with interlineations and a passage written vertically in the left margin, then adds a large brace to the left of the passage. The point of the brace--two points, in fact-- appears on the preceding page, hm924v1n49. coming in from the right and positioning the passage below "is no house, and no house-keeper--" T's note "V Back" at the end of the passage reinforces the movement of the passage indicated by the brace. Then T cancels the entire pasage with large looping lines. (I judge that the three vertical marks in pencil that run the length of the page are later.) A version of the Momus material that incorporates revisions in this one begins on hm924v1n52 and concludes on hm924v1n53.
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AEco-60 Eco-61T's "37" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-62T's "77" over "39" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-65 HW-5a HW-5c HW-10a Eco-69T's "43" in pencil in upper right corner
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AEco-76a BeF-12 Eco-76c BeF-13T's "45" in pencil in upper right corner
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ABeF-13 Eco-76d Eco-79Eco-76d: 8.71 1/2 . . . 5.40
Eco-79: By surveying . . . Lard
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AEco-79 Eco-80a Eco-81T's "47" in pencil in upper right corner
Eco-79: Apples . . . 1 Watermelon 2.
Eco-80a: Yes I did . . . practise [pencil]
Eco-81: Clothing . . . 41.28
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Eco-109a: the morning . . . without apology
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Eco-18: The luxuriously . . . cooked [pencil]
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AEco-111T's "137" in pencil in upper right corner
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A-ChapLoc: Catchphrase about Complemental Verses
ChapLoc: Catchphrase about Hollowell Farm [Where I Lived]
T 's "Mercury's Reply to Poverty in Carew" in pencil in upper left; T's "S about Hollowell farm" in pencil
in middle right. "End of Economy." probably by Sanborn
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AWIL-8aT's "1" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL-13a WIL-14aT's "5" in pencil in upper right corner
Red-orange marking
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AWIL-14aRed-orange marking
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AWIL-14a WIL-14cRed-orange offset
Red-orange marking
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AWIL-15 WIL-16T's "9" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL-16 WIL-23 WIL-20WIL-16: to be mean . . . when there may be no enjoyment in it.
WIL-23: Time is but . . . concentrated in it. My instinct tells
WIL-20: The preacher instead of vexing . . . seeming fast but deadly slow. [interlined in ink]
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AWIL-17T's "11" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL-17Red-orange marking
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AWIL-17 WIL-23Red-orange offset
Red-orange marking
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AWIL-23T's "15" in pencil in upper right corner
Red-orange marking
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AWILT's "17" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL Rea-1-
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ARea-3aT's "21" in pencil in upper right corner
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ARea-3b Rea-5T's "25" in pencil in upper right corner
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ARea-5 Rea-6aT's "27" in pencil in upper right corner
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ARea-11 Rea-7bT's "37" in pencil in upper right corner
Red-orange marking
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ARea-7b NiW Sou-1a NiW Sou-1bRea-7b: us as a . . . & wakeful hours to
Not in Walden: --have to gird up . . . for the combat.
Sou-1a: Yet after all . . . is copious & standard.
Not in Walden: For the tongue . . . all his actions, he learns to mutter.
Not in Walden: I read very little . . . for my
Not in Walden: With a more copious . . . they express will be forgotten. [written up the right side]
Sou-1b: The rays which . . . removed. [written up the right side]
Sou-1b: No method or . . . futurity. [written up the left side]
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ASou-2b Sou-3T's "41" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL-21aT's "45" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL-18a WIL-22aT's "49" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWIL-22cT's "53" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASou-4b Sou-4d-
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ASou-7T's "57" in pencil; T's "67" in pencil; both in upper right corner
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ASou-8 Sou-9bT's "69" in pencil in upper right corner
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ANiWT's "69" in pencil; T's "81" in pencil; both in upper right corner
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ASou-22b Sou-15aT's "71" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASou-7aT's "72" in pencil in upper left corner
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ASou-21b Sou-22a Sou-18aT's "69" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-1 Sol-3T's "81" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-4T's "95" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-4 Vis-1T's "85" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-12a Sol-12cT's "101" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-13 Sol-12b Sol-14 Sol-15T's "89" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-13 Sol-12b Sol-15T's "89" in pencil; waxed-on portion of leaf held away so all of 1r is visible
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A-T's "89" in pencil; focus is on verso of waxed-on portion of leaf
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ASol-16 Sol-17T's "107" in pencil in upper right corner
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ASol-18T's "93" in pencil; T's "109" in pencil; both in upper right corner
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AVis-7a Vis-8a-
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AVis-8a Vis-10aT's "111" in pencil in upper right corner
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AVis-8bT's "97" in pencil in upper right corner
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AVis-10bT's "117" in pencil in upper right corner
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AVis-13a Vis-13bT's "101" in pencil; T's "119" in pencil; both in upper right corner
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ANiW Vis-2T's "105" in pencil in upper right corner
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AVis-5T's "109" in pencil; T's "127" in pencil; both in upper right corner
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ABeF-2 BeF-3T's "113" in pencil in upper right corner
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ABeF-4 BeF-5T's "117" in pencil in upper right corner
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ABeF-5 BeF-6a-
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ABeF-6b BeF-10T's "120" in pencil in upper left corner
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ABeF-10T's "121" in pencil in upper right corner
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ABeF-10 BeF-11a BeF-14-
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ABeF-14 BeF-15a-
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ABeF-16a NiWT's "125" in pencil in upper right corner
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ANiW|| [pencil (ported.|| The)]: not correlated with a turn from one page to the next in proofsheets
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ANiW BeF-16c BeF-17T's "127" in pencil in upper right corner
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ABeF-17 Vil-1a-
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AVil-1a Vil-1cT's "129" in pencil in upper right corner
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AVil-1a Eco-90Vil-1a: the most of the . . . window tax.
Eco-90: I would here observe . . . economy to retreat
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AEco-90 Vil-1bEco-90: behind some curtain . . . evil.–
Vil-1b: Signs were . . . drowned the voices
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AVil-1d Pon-1a Pon-2aT's "133" in pencil in upper right corner
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APon-2a Pon-4-
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APon-4T's "135" in pencil in upper right corner
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AHL-1 Pon-28a-
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APon-5b Pon-8b Pon-7a Pon-7b-
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ABaF-5b BaF-6 NiWT's "147" in pencil in upper right corner
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ANiW BaF-8-
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AHL-5 HL-1 HL-3a HL-1 HL-3aT's "151" in pencil in upper right corner
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AHL-7T's "155" in pencil in upper right corner
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AHL-7 NiW Pon-22 NiW-
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ANiW Spr-25b NiW BN-9bT's "157" in pencil in upper right corner
First full paragraph, marked in pencil with vertical use mark, appears in Spring 25b; pencilled interlineation within that paragraph not in Walden.
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ABN-9b WA-13-
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ABN-11d BN-11a BN-16aT's "161" in pencil in upper right corner
Upper four-fifths of the page contains contents from Brute Neighbors para 11, revised in pencil and then lined through in ink. Bottom fifth contains contents from para 16. At the top of the page, over the lined through material, T writes in ink "Consult the above authors further for their military customs." This may refer to the composition of the "battle of the ants" passage, which appears in BN paras 12-14; no other reference to those paras appears in this page.
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AWA-2b WA-3T's "173" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWA-3 WA-4 WA-5-
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AWA-5T's "177" in pencil in upper right corner
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AWA-5 WA-7b WA-12 WA-6aChapLoc: Put this in Spring written vertically in pencil in left margin
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AWA-14b WA-15-
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AWA-15 PW-16a PW-16bChapLoc: Winter Inhabitants written vertically in pencil in right margin
WA-15 is written over PW-16a and PW-16b
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AFIWV-10b FIWV-12T's "189" in pencil in upper right corner
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AFIWV-12 FIWV-13-
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AFIWV-13 FIWV-14-
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AFIWV-14 FIWV-15b PW-1 PW-3aFIWV-14: perhaps, Naure will try . . . hamlet.
FIWV-15b: And with such thoughts as these I lulled myself to sleep.
PW-1: VS I have awaked [pencil; see fn 1]
PW-3a: Early in the morning . . . artificial.
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ASpr-1 NiW Pon-13 PW-6aT's "201" in pencil in upper right corner
Spr-1: it was . . . in the middle [ink1 rev in pencil]
Not in Walden: The temperature of the river . . . freezing point. [ink1 rev in pencil]
Pon-13: The temperature of Hartwell . . . it.
PW-6a: As I was . . . sounding line.
PW- map: [area of 61 1/2 acres]
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APW-8 PW-7aPW- map: [depth 102 feet in middle]
PW-8: As I sounded . . . shore. Cape [ink1 rev in ink1
PW-7a: The deepest ponds . . .shallow plate. [added in right margin, pencil rev in pencil]
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APW-16a PW-16b PW-17aT's "209" in pencil in upper right corner
PW-16a: house . . . summer there. [ink1 rev in in p]
PW-16b: It looks . . . underneath. [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
PW-17a: In the winter . . . I did not know [ink1 rev in ink1 ink2 and pencil]
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APW-17aPW-17a: whether they . . . sand–or rather [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
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ANiW PW-18 NiW PW-18 NiW PW-20 PW-19c Spr-1 PW-20T's "213" in pencil in upper right corner
Not in Walden: in the Almanack–his shanty. [ink1]
PW-18: In a good day . . . about one acre. [ink1 rev in pencil]
PW-18: This heap . . . till Sep. 1848 [interlined, ink2 rev in pencil]
Not in Walden: The ice was put to many novel uses– [ink1]
PW-18: The horses ate . . . like a bucket. [ink1 rev in pencil]
Not in Walden: The workmen . . . handling it. [interlined, ink2 rev in pencil]
PW-20: From my window . . . of the fable of [ink1 rev in pencil]
PW-19c: Ice is a curious . . . intellect. [ink1 rev in pencil]
Spr-1: Ice has its grain . . . surface. [interlined, ink2 rev in ink2]
Spr-1: They were not . . . replace the old. [ink1 rev in ink1]
PW-20: From my window . . . the fable of [ink1 rev in pencil]
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PW-21: Thus it appears . . . this [ink1 rev in ink2 and pencil]
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APW-21ChapLoc: Title catchword Spring
PW-21: of which Alexander heard only the names. [ink2 rev in pencil]
Spr-title: Spring [pencil]
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APW-21 NiW Spr-3T's "217" in pencil in upper right corner
PW-21: islands of Atlantis . . . heard only the names. [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
Not in Walden: end [pencil]
Spr-3: The ice . . . grew warmer, it [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
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HW-12b: it froze . . . greater depth. [ink1 rev in ink 2 and pencil]
Spr-1: Probably the sun warms . . . in a single spring rain. [ink1 rev in pencil]
Not in Walden: As you may make . . . from the sun. [ink1 rev in pencil]
Spr-1: The ice in the shallowest [ink1]
Spr-1: The temp of the mid of Walden P . . . This diff. v p 201 [added in left margin, pencil rev in pencil]
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Spr-5: v end of Sand foliage At length the sun's rays [interlined in pencil]
Spr-11: But we must . . . than their [ink1 rev in ink2 and pencil]
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Spr-11: summer . . . treesses of summer. [ink1 rev in ink1]
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Spr-6: As I go back and forth . . . slower current. [ink1 rev in ink1]
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Spr-9a: This spring . . . fumes and dumps.
Spr-24: Our village . . . its living and
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ASpr-24 NiW Spr-25aT's "235" in pencil in upper right corner
Spr-24: With the liability . . . bear to be stereotyped.
Not in Walden: [written vertically in pencil; careted in following "stereotyped"; used in "Walking," Excursions 203-204} How near to good is what is wild. Hope & the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns & cities but in the impervious & quaking swamps. When I have analysed my affection for some farm which I VS
Spr-25a: Early in May . . . I had heard
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ASpr-25a Spr-25c Spr-26 Spr-25b Spr-25c Con-4 Spr-25c NiWSpr-25a: long before-- [ink1]
Spr-25c: The pollen of the . . . higher grass-- [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
Spr-26: Thus was . . . 1847 [ink1 and ink2 and pencil]
Spr-25b: The phoebe . . . premises. [ink2 rev in pencil]
Spr-25c: [too faint to read all of this without more study, but "sulphur showers" occurs twice] [pencil]
Con-4: It seemed to me . . . time for this one. [pencil]
Spr-25c: This is the origin of those paragraphs . . . VS about pollen. [pencil]
Spr-25c?: vs at some seasons ["at some seasons" occurs in Eco-37, but I think this refers to the pollen; pencil]
Spr-25c?: Perhaps I have . . . current. [not in Walden; this also seems to be about the pollen; pencil]
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ANiW Con-16 NiWNot in Walden: Justice--Mercy--Peace . . . New England mornings.
Con-16: As if one . . . with goodness afore- / thought.
Not in Walden: Shall vice give a name to virtue? . . . will have no place nor occasion then.
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T's " 137¹ " in pencil in upper right corner
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BEco-2bChapLoc: Start of Economy content
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BEco-5a Eco-6T's "9" in pencil in upper right corner
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BEco-10aEco-10a men had . . . rose clear
[center portion of leaf is missing; it was offered by Christie's in 2012. See Walden MSS not HM 924. Contents are Eco-10a It is never . . . you can't do]
Eco-10a you try and find . . . a-going. New
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BEco-10a Eco-15 Eco-12 Eco-11 Eco-15 Eco-83dEco-10a people put . . . for it has not
Eco-15 Confucius said &c vnp When I find that one man . . . on that basis [added in penci]
Eco-12 The whole ground &c [added in pencil]
[center portion of leaf is missing; it was offered by Christie's in 2012. See Walden MSS not HM 924. Contents are Eco-10a profited . . . lost Eco-10b One may . . .
childhood or nature Eco-11 One farmer says . . . obstacle]
Eco-11 Some things . . . unknown
Eco-15 Confucius said &c v back [added in pencil]
Eco-83d I know a robust . . . as she has
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BEco-83d Eco-13b Eco-15 Eco-12Eco-83d since learned . . . coffee!
Eco-13b Nature and . . . this would be
Eco-15 Confucius said to know . . . basis [added in pencil]
Eco-12 The whole ground . . . how we should
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BEco-12 Eco-13aEco-12 cut our nails . . . tried.
Eco-13a We might . . . northern
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B-T's "27" in pencil in upper right corner
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BEco-17c Eco-17d Eco-42ball text in pencil; Clapper: "Economy 17c was added in pencil [in C] on the verso of a leaf from B". Possibly not added until 1851; see Journal for June 11, 1851.
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B-T's "35" in pencil in upper right corner, below "35" in pencil in another hand
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BEco-103a Eco-103bT's "121" in pencil in upper right corner
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BEco-103b"122" in pencil in upper right corner not in T's hand
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BWIL-14aChapLoc: Start of Where I Lived, and What I Lived For content
T's "7" in pencil in upper right corner
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Material on this page relates to the second paragraphs of both Reading and Sounds.
Seventeen lines from the top, Sanborn has filled in a space T left blank with "crest:" in pencil, then cancelled "crest" and interlined "visor" above
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BSou-8 Sou-9Sou-8 smoke . . . escort
Sou-9 I watch . . . spear. [pencil, inserted and added in margin] The stabler . . . as in- [in ink]
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BSou-9Sou-9 nocent . . . unwearied!
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BSou-9 Sou-10a Sou-11bSou-9 were as . . . unwearied
Sou-10a Far . . . lozenge boys. [pencil under ink text]
Sou-11b Yet I confess that [cancelled in pencil] I am . . . covered with
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BSou-11b Sou-11a Sou-12Sou-11b snow and rime . . . universe.
Sou-11a After all What . . . devised [cancelled in pencil]
Sou-12 Commerce . . . globe
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BSol-1 Sol-2ChapLoc: Start of Solitude content
Possibly T's "91" in pencil in upper right corner
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Village 2a, 2b, 2c followed by "[para sign]Sometimes having had a surfeit", the first phrase in "The Ponds"
Crosswriten vertically on the left, in pencil, is more material about walking in the dark and hearing others singing; this
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BFIWV-11c NiW FIWV-11aFIWH-11c: to roost . . . will he want more.
Not in Walden: How it fares with him . . . any means learn.
FIWV-11a: As I have said . . . of these woods [pencil]
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Chaploc: Start of Economy content
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CEco-2a Eco-2b"3" in pencil in upper right corner not in T's hand
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CNiWNot in Walden.
AW, 262: The friend . . . The smothered streams &c
AW, 264: our courses do not . . . centre.
AW, 284: Although friendship . . . connected."
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Eco-85b: I saw . . . easily still-- [pencil]
Eco-85c: & finally . . . after it. [pencil]
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Portion of leaf
Example of transposition: vertical ink marks and marginal "2" and "1" reorder two sections
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Following "who" he initially writes, in pencil, "hear this / lecture"; he revises in pencil to "read this / book" and then to "these / pages
Following "in this" he initially writes, in pencil, "city" and revises in pencil to "town"
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Material written vertically in left margin may be part of a draft of "Ktaadn," an essay about Thoreau’s first trip to the Maine woods that was published in five parts in John Sartain’s Union Magazine of Literature and Art, beginning with the July 1848 issue. Thoreau took this trip from August 31 to September 10, 1846, and he composed a draft of a lecture about it in his Journal starting in mid-September 1846. He delivered the lecture at the Concord Lyceum on January 3, 1848. Thoreau reused the leaf to draft Eco-100a, b, c. Physically, this leaf could be part of the Berg Journal (April 17- 1846-December 1846), which is missing 18 leaves (J2, p. 473) or more likely MS Volume [I] (Winter 1846-1846–Spring 1848), probably missing 130 leaves (J2, p. 474) or MS Volume II (Summer-Fall 1848–April 1850), which is missing 31 leaves at the beginning (J3, p. 502).
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CNiWNot in Walden: A man is not . . . deed. and We know not yet . . . earth shines most." are in A Week 1980, p. 129
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DNiW Eco-9b Eco-9aNot in Walden: knew that he was not . . . advantages. [Continuation of T's account of events that happened during the walking portion of the Week trip; see above]
Eco-9b: It is the sum . . . desperate things.
Eco-9a The great mass . . . the bravery of minks and muskrats.
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DEco-9b Eco-9a Eco-10aEco-9b: But It is the sum of all wisdom . . . desperate things.
Eco-9a: The mass of men . . . of minks and muskrats.
Eco-10a: When we consider what, . . . or in silence passes by as true, to-day,
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DSou-10b Sou-10c Sou-11aSou-10b of the former . . . off your head.
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DEco-89 NiW NiWEco-89: that they have some . . . barn.
Eco-89: By the way, I look upon England today . . . at least [interlined in pencil]
Eco-89: It would surpass the powers . . . & run. When [added in left margin in pencil]
Eco-89: I have met . . . paw into it.
NiW: I saw the other day . . . cheering sight.
NiW: In the meanwhile . . . farewell is pining [added in pencil]
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Eco-44b: Consider . . . necessary
Eco-42b: Samuel Laing . . . other people."
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FIWV-21a: I should . . . brains
NIW: with nothing . . . lives
FIWV-21a: prompting . . . revolve
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NIW: There dwells . . . hut
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NIW: for he . . . astonish him
FIWV-21a: with his . . . all
NIW: with nothing . . . he lives
FIWV-21a: prompting . . . advice
NIW: A thought . . . lake
FIWV-22b: There we . . . seams
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FIWV-23 in left margin: Others there were . . . had I. V S about waiting for a guest
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Eco-92: and passion . . . favor."
Eco-93 & Eco-94: "On the fourth . . . and pure flame."
Eco-94: They then feast . . . themselves."
Eco-95: The mexicans . . . end-- [added inpencl]
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Eco-91: Not long since . . . dust.
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|| [pencil (place yours || nearest)]: coincides with the turn from p. 252 to p. 253 in proofsheets, which is the end of one 3-page sheet: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1488]
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EBN-17BN-17 there than . . . laughter, yet
802
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EBN-17BN-17 in New York . . . yet further than
^ once or twice v n p [pencil]
802-803 contain a re-casting of material on 800-801; "in New York" at top of 802 repeats/revises "Seneca Lake NY" near bottom of 800
803
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EBN-17BN-17 at first . . . far and wide. &
v l p [pencil]
804
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EBN-17BN-17 somewhat like . . . whole air
805
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EBN-17 BN-18BN-17 with misty rain . . . surface.
BN-18 For hours . . .that I do
806
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EHW-1ChapLoc: Title House-Warming
House Warming [pencil at top of page and again above pencilled text added up left margin]
807
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EHW-15 HW-16b HW-17T's poetry: Light-winged Smoke
823
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824
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825
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EHW-19ChapLoc: Title House Warming
Ellen Sturgis-Hooper's poetry, The Wood-Fire, "When I am glad or gay . . . And with us by the unequal light of the old wood-fire talked."
Animals [pencil following ink text; catchword]
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EWA-8ChapLoc: Start of Winter Animals content
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EFIWV-2b FIWV-3ChapLoc: Start of Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors content
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EFIWV-4 FIWV-5 FIWV-6-
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EFIWV-7b FIWV-8a-
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EFIWV-11b FIWV-11c FIWV-12Bright blue ink cancellation
839
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EFIWV-12-
840
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ENiW FIWV-12Not in Walden: Wells must be among the oldest monuments . . . to be dug.
FIWV-12: These cellar dents like . . .
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EFIWV-14 FIWV-15b FIWV-15a-
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EFIWV-16ChapLoc: Start of Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors content
Winter Visitors [pencil at top of page]
Bright blue ink interlineation
844
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EFIWV-16 FIWV-17Bright blue ink cancellation and interlineation
845
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EFIWV-17-
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EFIWV-17 FIWV-18-
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EFIWV-18 FIWV-19Bright blue ink cancellation and interlineation
849
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EFIWV-19 FIWV-20-
850
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EFIWV-20 FIWV-21a-
851
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EFIWV-21aBright blue ink interlineation
852
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EFIWV-21a NiW FIWV-22bBright blue ink cancellation
FIWV-21a: the only friend . . . right road."
Not in Walden: A thought . . . inland lake. VS He is &c [ref to 21b]
FIWV-22b: There we worked . . . fable here
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EFIWV-22b FIWV-23 FIWV-24-
854
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EFIWV-24Repurposed leaf
FIWV-24: says . . . from the town.
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ENiWChapLoc: Title Pond in Winter
Repurposed leaf
Pond in Winter [pencil at top of page; other contents: draft of part of T's plan made for George Loring for a lead pipe machine. September 15, 1852 (see https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/thoreau-surveys/84)]
856
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EPW-6cChapLoc: Start of The Pond in Winter content
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E-Most Ponds [pencil following ink text; catchwords]
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EPW-15-
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EPW-19a PW-16a-
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EPW-17b-
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ENiW PW-18 Eco-106b^ v forward Deep ruts &c [pencil]
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ENiW-
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EPW-18v back [pencil in left margin]
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EPW-18-
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ECon-8b PW-18 PW-19c-
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EPW-19c PW-19b PW-20-
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ESpr-2bChapLoc: Start of Spring content
879
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ESpr-2b Spr-3Most Ponds [pencil following ink text; catchphrase]
880
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ESpr-3Spr-3: squirrels bark, for . . . disappeared [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
881
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ESpr-3 Spr-4aSpr-3: entirely . . . Mar. 22d 53 [ink1 rev in pencil]
Spr-4a: Every incident . . . and can [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
Latest date is Mar. 22d 53
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E-vs Walden &c [pencil]
886
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ESpr-25a Spr-25b Spr-25c Spr-26ChapLoc: Title catchword Conclusion
Conclusion [pencil following ink text]
890
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ECon-5ChapLoc: Start of Conclusion content
891
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E-Some are {dim} &c [pencil]; If the Reader &c [pencil] though you are a fungus 1/2 page [pencil]; the It is a ridiculous demand [pencil]
892
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895
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FSpr-6 Spr-7a Spr-7b Spr-8ChapLoc: Spring content on leaves from 1846-48 MS Journal vol
NB: This leaf, https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1008 and https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1009, and the leaf that follows, https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1010 and
https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1011, as well as a leaf in 8, https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1300 and https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1299, belong to a now-fragmentary MS Journal volume that Thoreau filled from winter 1846-47 through spring 1848. The material on these leaves was probably written in spring 1848 (see PE J2, p. 462-465). The sand foliage material begins on https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1299 and continues on https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1008.
[I have done my best to identify paragraphs related to passages on each page, but these relationships
need closer examination and refinement. BW]
Spr-6: There lie the sand . . . degree of fineness and every shade of color--
Spr-7a: The whole bank . . . in one spring day.
Spr-7b: Each lobe of these earth leaves
Spr-8: perchance . . . larger or smaller
Reordering: pencilled 4, 6, 10, 8 written over 7, 7 , 9' [prime] wriiten over 9, 13
1009
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FSpr-8 Spr-6 Spr-9aChapLoc: Spring content on leaves from 1846-48 MS Journal vol
Spr-8: so perchance . . . and branch & branch again into a myriad others--
Spr-6: Here it is . . . adhesive clay--
Spr-6: And where the flowing mass reaches . . . the ripple marks on the bottom
Spr-8: The lobes are the . . . might have caused it flow farther.
Spr-9a: Thus is seemed as if . . . operations in nature.
Reordering: ink 14'' written over ink 2, pencilled 13 c in ink, ink 14', pencilled 9, pencilled 14, pencilled 17
1010
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FSpr-7b Spr-8 Spr-7a Spr-6 Spr-7a NiW Spr-6 Spr-8 NiWChapLoc: Spring content on leaves from 1846-48 MS Journal vol
Spr-7b: So the stream . . . as the springs which feed it.
Spr-7b and 8: I perceive that . . . clay this very day--
Spr-7a: I am in the studio of an artist who is even now a work--or rather at play--forming fresh designs.
Spr-6 and 7a: This cut is about a quarter of a . . . and forms masses and conglomerations
Not in Walden: but if it flowed upward . . . & unimpeded
Spr-6: clusters of graceful sprays overlying each other [ink1, cancelled in ink1]
Spr-8: Here you may see how blood vessels . . . up in the sands--
Not in Walden: It seemed so artful
Reordering: pencilled 16 written over 11, 11, 3, 15, 12
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FSpr-8 Spr-6 Spr-9aChapLoc: Spring content on leaves from 1846-48 MS Journal vol
Spr-8: The thawing mass a stream . . . system & in the still finer sand & mould the flesh. [ink1 rev in ink1]
[written between lines of a draft of "Ktaadn" which begins "In the next ["10" altered to" 9"] miles which
completed" and ends "This is generally the order of names as you ascend the river &c v 81"]
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FNiW Spr-8 Spr-6 Spr-7a NiW Spr-8 Spr-9aChapLoc: Spring content on anomalous leaf
[Repurposed leaf: T's first layer of writing on this page, a pencilled draft of his poem, "To the Comet," is visible here and there under the ink text. It takes up about
two-thirds of the page. The only other version of the poem is at the John Hay Library, Brown University (https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:206599/)]
Spr-8: as many lobes . . . might have caused it to flow yet further. [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
Spr-6 and 7a: The material flowing downward, . . . conglomerations
Not in Walden: but if it flowed upward . . . open and airy.
Spr-8: In the morning . . . as the springs which feed it.
Spr-9a: Thus it seemed . . . inhabit it. [ink1 rev in pencil]
Spr-9a: In the spring of the year . . . that we may turn over a new leaf at last [written vertically in pencil in
right margin; not all of it is in Spr-9a]
1013
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FSpr-8ChapLoc: Spring content on anomalous leaf
1014
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FEco-67bChapLoc: Start of Economy content
account of chimney--here? [pencil following ink text]
1015
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F-Blank
1016
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FEco-97b-
1017
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FEco-97b Eco-98As I preferred some things to others, and [pencil following ink text; catchphrase]
1018
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FWIL-7 WIL-8a WIL-8bChapLoc: Start of Where I Lived, and What I Lived For content
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FWIL-13a WIL 13-b WIL-14a-
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FSou-2bChapLoc: Start of Sounds content
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F-T's poetry: What's the railroad to me?
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FSou-14 Sou-15a Sou-15b-
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FSou-15bT's poetry: Now up they go, ding,
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FSol-4 Sol-5a Sol-5cChapLoc: Start of Solitude content
^ v pencil next p. [pencil]
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FSol-5c Sol-5a-
1038
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FBeF-1ChapLoc: Title Beans [The Bean-Field]
Beans [pencil at top of page]
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FBeF-1 BeF-2-
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F-vs But to be more [pencil]
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F-^ v n p [pencil]
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FVil-2c Vil-2dChapLoc: Start of The Village content
1049
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FVil-2d-
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FVil-2d[pencilled passage on this page doesn't seem to be in Clapper; I have not transcribed it]
1052
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FPon-1ChapLoc: Title The Ponds
The Ponds. [ink at top of page]
T's "394" in pencil in upper right corner
1053
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FPon-10a-
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FPon-10bPortion of leaf
Waxed on to verso of single leaf
Repurposed leaf
Pon-10b: It is remarkable . . . known it.
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FPon-10a Pon-10c Pon-11
Pon-10a: converted into a meadow. But . . . affect the deep springs.
Pon-10a: This same sum-/mer the pond it has be-/gun to fall again. v s.
Pon-10a: Flint's Pond . . . White Pond.
Pon-11: This rise . . . standing at
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FPon-10a NiW Pon-11Portion of leaf
Waxed on to verso of single leaf
Repurposed leaf
[draft of 2.26.54 note to Elijah Wood Jr (see Cor 2, p 200)]
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FPon-11 NiWIn terms of paper structure, verso precedes recto, but content runs from verso to recto.
Repurposed leaf
Pon-11: This rise . . . [circumstances--] [pencil]
Not in Walden: I have been
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FNiW Pon-10cRepurposed leaf
Not in Walden: surprised to see what a rampart has been formed . . . force applied beneath.
Pon-10c: Flint's Pond, allowing for the disturbance occasioned . . . [final para, in pencil]
letter to Greeley & McElrath dated January 22, 1853. [For the page containing the address, see https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1166]
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1080
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FPon-23 PW-6c Pon-23-
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FHL-1ChapLoc: Title Animal Food [Higher Laws]
Animal Food [pencil at top of page]
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F-v bot of n p [pencil]
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F-v back [pencil]
v back [pencil; both refer to the recto of this page, I think]
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FHL-103 or 4 white lines [pencil following ink text: instruction for the printer, though proofs are not set with space and T didn't add it https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1478 so printer's copy probably didn't include this]
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FBN-10ChapLoc: Start of Brute Neighbors content
^ 3 ps forward after Partridge [pencil; catchword]
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FBN-15v n p [ink]
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FHW-2ChapLoc: Start of House-Warming content
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FHW-6 HW-7-
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FWA-1ChapLoc: Title Animals [Winter Animals]
Animals [in pencil at top of page: "Animals" was an earlier name for "Brute Neighbors" in the table of contents in G (https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/904) but the content here is in "Winter Animals"]
Sanborn: P 419 [pencil} over T's Animals [pencil]
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FWA-1ChapLoc: Title Winter Animals
Winter Animals [ink at top of page]
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^ S In summer the bose [pencil; catchphrase]
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F-^ June 1842 A few years before v s n p. [pencil]
v. ^near^ end of animals [pencil at bottom of page]
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F-^ v. l p There were [ink]
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FWA-12 BN-15a BN-15b WA-14^ The moles &c [ink}
v n p [ink]
["moles" in pencil in right margin is not T: Sanborn or copyist clarifying T's ink "moles"]
The hares &c v n p [ink]
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FFIWV-1ChapLoc: Title Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors
Former Inhabitants & Winter Visitors [pencil at top of page]
¶ [ink preceding "for / human"; this is T's]
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FFIWV-1 FIWV-a FIWV-2b-
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FFIWV-2b FIWV-3-
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FFIWV-3 FIWV-4-
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FFIWV-4 FIWV-5 FIWV-6-
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FFIWV-6Breeds hut &c [pencil following ink text; catchphrase]
1140
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FFIWV-7a-
1141
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FFIWV-7a-
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FFIWV-7b FIWV-8a¶ [pencil preceding in "It chanced that"; is this T's?]
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FFIWV-8a FIWV-8b-
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FFIWV-8b NiW FIWV-9a8-b: rider . . . for [vertically in pencil; catchphrase] by it hangs the history of a family, [first line, ink]
Not in Walden: I have even though to make a drawing of it . . . about wit being the soul's powder.
9a: And once more . . . wall in the
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FFIWV-9a FIWV-9b FIWV-10a FIWV-10b[Bright blue ink begins middle of line 4]
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FFIWV-10b FIWV-11a[Bright blue ink]
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FFIWV-11a FIWV-11b FIWV-11c FIWV-12[Bright blue ink]
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FFIWV-12 NiW[Bright blue ink top half of text]
12: bushes . . . wells of tears [ink] no break These cellar [pencil reference to ink "These cellar" on verso of this leaf]
Not in Walden: Wells must be among the oldest monuments . . . inspiration from
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FNiW FIWV-12Not in Walden: few old wells . . . are yet to be dug.
12: These cellar dents . . . consummated,
1150
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FFIWV-18 FIWV-19-
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FFIWV-19 FIWV-20-
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FFIWV-21a NiW FIWV-21b21a: the only friend . . . road."
Not in Walden: A thought floats . . . inland lake.
21b: Perhaps the sanest man and
1153
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FFIWV-21b FIWV-22a-
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FFIWV-21b FIWV-22a-
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FFIWV-22b FIWV-23 FIWV-24-
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FFIWV-24[Bright blue ink]
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F-ChapLoc: Title catchphrase Winter Animals
Winter Animals [on an otherwise blank page; there is no "Winter Animals" content in F]
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FPW-1ChapLoc: Start of The Pond in Winter content
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FPW-1 PW-2a PW-2c|| [pencil (rod || to)]: coincides with the turn from p. [303] to p. 304 in proofsheets, which is the end of one 3-page sheet: https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1522 ]
^ v s [pencil] probably refers to PW-2b
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FPW-5In terms of paper structure, verso precedes recto, but content runs from verso to recto.
Repurposed leaf
PW-5: Ah! the pickerel of Walden! . . . it is surprising that these fishes
v n p [pencil reference to transposition of passage marked "2" on recto of the leaf with passage marked "1" on verso]
postmark and address leaf for a letter to "Greeley & McElrath / Tribune Building / New York" dated January 22, 1853, at 90 degree angle to PW text. [For the page containing the letter, see https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/1065]
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note in pencil to add ["4 or 5" rev to "2"] white lines
Spr-3: One attraction . . . exhausted, or see [ink1 rev in ink1]
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Spr-4a: Every incident . . . I was surprised to [ink1 rev in ink1 and pencil]
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Spr-4b: river, and he . . . water with a [ink1 rev in ink1]
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Conclusion [ink at top of page, written over pencilled French version of Rene Soudihouane quote from Jesuit Relations that appears in English on "Conclusion" page for G: https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16003coll16/id/995, but is not in Walden]
Con-1: To the sick . . . but you
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Con-2: Yet we should . . . home-cosmography."
1242
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FCon-2Con-2: What does Africa . . . Czar is but a
1243
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FCon-2waxed on to r2
Con-2: to support you . . . opening new chan- [fair copy of lines T revised on p. 3 of the bifolio that are under the waxed-on strip]
1244
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FCon-2Blank; waxed on to r2
1245
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FCon-2Con-2: petty state . . . they more of the road.
1246
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FCon-3Con-3: sacred laws . . . to meet with any such.
I left &c [pencil following ink text; catchphrase for Con-4]
1247
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FCon-4Con-4: I left . . . to take a
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1248
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FCon-4 Con-5Con-4: cabin passage . . . go below now.
Con-5: I learned this . . . liberal sense, and
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FCon-5 Con-9Con-5: he will live . . . foundations under them.
Con-9: Some are dinning . . . endeavor to be what he was made
After ether beyond [pencil up left side of page indicating that marked paragraph should follow Con-8b]
It is &c [pencil following ink text; catchphrase for 6a?]
1250
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FCon-4 Con-9Con-4: If the reader . . . on the matter--
Con-9: Though you are . . . pigmy that he can?
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FCon-9 Con-6a Con-6b Con-7a Con-7bCon-9: Let every . . . made.
Con-6a: It is . . . bore.
Con-6b: As if Nature . . . stupidity alone.
vs I fear {intterlined pencil; catchphrase]
Con-7a: Sometimes . . . got up early enough.
Con-7b: "They pretend . . . illusion,
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FCon-7b Con-7c Con-8a Con-8bCon-7b: spirit, intellect . . . interpretation.
Con-7c: While England . . . widely & fatally
Con-8a: I do not . . . Walden ice.
Con-8b: Southern customers . . . azure ether beyond.
v 4 ps back [pencil]
1253
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FCon-10Con-10: Why should we be . . . former were not?
There was &c [pencil following ink text; catchphrase for Con-11]
1254
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FCon-13bCon-13b: We are . . . one necssary of the soul.
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FCon-13aCon-13a: To be developed, . . . widens to man's view!"
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FCon-17Con-17: There is an incessant . . . over the wine.
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FCon-18Con-18: Everyone has heard . . . hatched perchance by [marked 2 in ink]
Con-18: The life in us . . . to record its freshets. [marked 1 in ink]
Everyone &c [pencil in right margin after last line of ink text doesn't look like T's hand; it confirms transposition of paras marked "1" and "2"]
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FCon-18 Con-19Con-18: the heat of an urn . . . summer life at last!
Con-19: I do not say that . . . character on that morrow
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FCon-19Con-19: which mere lapse . . . The End.
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Eco-38a: believe . . . now."
Not in Walden: I just had . . . size.
Eco-38b: Of what use . . . hang it on.
Not in Walden: This is not . . . thine be done.
Eco-38b: We worship not the
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GEco-38b Eco-39a-
907
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GEco-39a Eco-35hEco-39:
Eco-35h: I have heard . . . naked man.
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GEco-39bIt is [ink] v back [pencil]
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GEco-90 NiWEco-90: By the way I would observe . . . beginnings of evil.
NiW: I saw . . . two bowls, two
910
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GNiW Sol-4 Eco-91NiW: pewter spoons . . . disease sciatica.
Sol-4: If it should continue . . . grass it will be good for me [faint pencil beneath In the meanwhile . . . in her door, and]
Eco-91: Not long since . . . oft interred with their bones.”
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GEco-110a Eco-110b Eco-110c Eco-110aEven the prophets
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GWIL-4ChapLoc: Start of Where I Lived, and What I Lived For content
932
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GWIL-4 WIL-5last line: turned out as I have said. [followed by pencilled catchphrase: All that I could say &c]
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GSol-4 Sol-5aChapLoc: Start of Solitude content
934
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GSol-5a Sol-5b Sol-5c-
935
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GHL-4 HL-3d HL-5ChapLoc: Start of Higher Laws content
last line: no fisherman at all [pencilled period; ink comma c in pencil] [followed by pencilled catchphrase: But &c]
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GHW-16a HW-16blast line: But commonly I kindled [followed by pencilled catchphrase: But I commonly kindled v back]
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GHW-18b HW-19Pencilled catchphrase in what looks to me like Sanborn's hand but may be T's "The Next &c" check 1909 and HM 924
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FIWV-21a: men's bodies . . . right road."--
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FIWV-22a: Having each some shingles of thought . . . dissolve there.
FIWV-22b: There we worked . . . here and there, and
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975
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976
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977
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Spr-8: the water deposits . . . {covered by single leaf} body would ex- [on visible part of 1r of bifolio]
Not in Walden: We might say that the . . . Patagonia. [on visible part of verso of single leaf]
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Spr-8: the water deposits . . . palm leaf with its lobes & veins? [on visible part of 1r of bifolio]
Spr-8: The ear may be regarded . . . caused it to flow yet farther. [on recto of single leaf]
above "Each rounded lobe" careted in pencil "v np we might say"
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Spr-8: {covered by single leaf} now loitering drop . . . on the side of the head. [on visible part of 1r of
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Not in Walden: We might say that the . . . Patagonia. [on visible part of verso of single leaf]
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Screen shot of Huntington manuscript viewer
Image #8 as seen in the Huntington manuscript viewer. It is the ninth image in this volume and the first MS page in the volume.

In summary, the image numbers in the search table correspond reliably to the image URLs in both locations (Huntington, full-size), making them the best way to identify any particular image so as to make it findable in either location.

Finally, note that the numbers reflect the order in which images were scanned. Volume 7 (Version G) was scanned before Volume 6 (Version F), so the numbers for the later volume are lower than those for the earlier one. Again, the important point is that each number is a reliable identifier for that image at whatever location you’re viewing it.

Chapter abbreviations ⇡

The search tool uses the following abbreviations to represent the 18 chapters of Walden. Although the abbreviations contain upper- and lower-case letters, table searches are case-insensitive, so you’ll get the same result by typing “eco” as you would by typing “Eco.” When searching for all paragraph segments in a given chapter, you’ll likely want to include a hyphen in your search term so that, for example, your search for paragraph segments in “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For” doesn’t turn up rows that contain the word “will.” Searching for “WIL-” or “wil-” should get you the results you’re after.

  • Eco = Economy
  • WIL = Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
  • Rea = Reading
  • Sou = Sounds / [Railroad]
  • Sol = Solitude
  • Vis = Visitors
  • BeF = The Bean Field / [Beans]
  • Vil = The Village
  • Pon = The Ponds
  • BaF = Baker Farm
  • HL = Higher Laws / [Animal Food]
  • BN = Brute Neighbors / [Fall Animals]
  • HW = House-Warming
  • FIWV = Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors
  • WA = Winter Animals / [Animals]
  • PW = The Pond in Winter
  • Spr = Spring
  • Con = Conclusion

Examples of paragraph segments ⇡

  • Eco-2b = Economy, paragraph 2, segment 2b
  • Rea-2a = Reading, paragraph 2, segment 2a

Other abbreviations ⇡

  • NiW = Not in Walden
  • – = Not applicable or no data available yet
  • F = Full-size image
  • H = Image on the Huntington website

Using the Notes column ⇡

The Notes column of the search tool provides information about the contents and visible physical features of the pages and leaves shown in the images. Since the search tool is a work in progress, the absence of a note indicates only that the image of a page hasn’t yet been examined and annotated.

Frequently used categories of information are shown below, together with keywords you can use to search for them.

There are occasional notes about content that ended up in other works than Walden.

The abbreviation ChapLoc indicates the presence of a chapter title, title catchwords or catchphrases, and the start of chapter content in the manuscript. Searching for a particular passage in the manuscript is often easier if you can find the beginning of the chapter in which the passage is found.

Passages that the Digital Thoreau editorial team has focused on are likely to have detailed notes. For example, one of our ongoing projects is to construct a revision narrative for Thoreau’s description, in “Spring,” of the sand foliage at the Deep Cut. The core of this description is in “Spring” paragraphs 5 through 9, identified in the table as Spr-5 through Spr-9. If you search for these paragraph segments you’ll find extensive notes on sand foliage material in drafts A, F, and G.

Abbreviations used in Notes

  • AW = A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Princeton UP, 1980)
  • BW = Beth Witherell
  • ChapLoc = locating information, such as a chapter title, that marks the beginning of a chapter
  • Cor 2 = Correspondence 2: 1849-1856 (Princeton UP, 2018)
  • LR = Later Revision to Journal MS
  • Not in Walden = text not located in Walden
  • np = no page number by Thoreau
  • PE = Princeton Edition
  • r = recto
  • rev = revised
  • T = Thoreau
  • v = verso
To findSearch the table for
Additions by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (FBS wrote on every page of the MS; only a few are noted)Sanborn
Blank pagesblank
Markers, such as chapter titles or catchwords, that indicate the beginning of a chapterChapLoc
Leaves or portions of leaves that Thoreau waxed togetherwax
Portions of leaves (entire leaves are not noted)portion
Repurposed leaves (recycled by Thoreau)repurposed
Text in pencilpencil
Thoreau’s page numbersT’s "
Correlations of MS contents marked with “||” and turnovers from one sheet to the next in corrected proofsproofsheet

Working with IIIF images ⇡

The Huntington Library’s images of HM 924 use the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF, for short), an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery. The use of IIIF not only makes it possible for the Huntington to display each image, together with associated metadata, on its own site; it also enables scholars, teachers, and students to embed the images in their own digital projects. By using the IIIF syntax when pointing to an image, it’s possible to scale the image to a desired size, display only a particular region of the image, or rotate the image (for example, to make text written vertically in a page margin easier to read.)

Under the terms of the grant from the State University of New York that funded digitization of HM 924 and HM 925, written permission is not required to embed these images in your project, but you should be sure to provide attribution to the Huntington Library when you do so.

Complete information on the syntax for calling images via the IIIF API may be found on the IIIF website.

The basic template is as follows:

{scheme}://{server}{/prefix}/{identifier}/{region}/{size}/{rotation}/{quality}.{format}

For the Walden MS images, therefore, the following URL will bring up p. 1 of Walden Version A, which is Image #8 in the search table.

https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/iiif/p16003coll16/8/full/full/0/default.jpg

In the URL, the first full indicates the {region} and the second full indicates the {size}.

Thus, callinghttps://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/iiif/p16003coll16/8/full/pct:10/0/default.jpg will bring in the full page at 10% of its size:

Page 1 of A at 10%

Displaying a page region

To display a region of the image other than full, you can specify the coordinates of the region using absolute pixel values by replacing full with x,y,w,h where x = the number of pixels from the 0 position of the horizontal axis, y = the number of pixels from the 0 position of the vertical axis, w = the width of the region in pixels and h = the height of the region in pixels. (Note that the x,y coordinates 0,0 represent the upper left corner of the image, and that the upper left corner of the image is not the same as the upper left corner of the manuscript page, since the gray margin surrounding the page is part of the image.)

Thus, to display the bracketed and canceled passage on this page at 30% of its full size, we would want to call https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/iiif/p16003coll16/8/1150,6200,7000,2000/pct:30/0/default.jpg:

Page region

Determining the right coordinates for a region takes some finagling. If you download the image and open it in an image-viewing application such as Apple’s Preview, you should be able to get approximate coordinates. You can then pop the URL-with-coordinates into your browser’s location bar and, by repeatedly adjusting them and refreshing the browser, ascertain that you’re capturing the desired region.

Rotating images

To rotate an image region, replace the 0 with the desired rotation (e.g., 90 for 90 degrees).

For example, the URL https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/iiif/p16003coll16/434/800,737,1450,5870/pct:30/90/default.jpg will bring up the region with coordinates 800,737,1450,5870 on p. 1 of the B-C Version (Image #434 in the search table) rotated 90 degrees at 30%, making it easier to read what Thoreau has written vertically in the left margin:

Page region rotated 90 degrees