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The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections

A Guide to the Collection


Collection Summary

Creator: Raymond Adams (1898-1987)

Title: Raymond Adams Collection

Abstract: This collection consists of the personal research collection of Raymond Adams.

Related Collections: The Walter Harding Collection; The Thoreau Society Archives

Preferred Citation: The Raymond Adams Collection (The Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods)


Organization of the Collection

The Collection is organized into the following series:

Series I. Raymond Adams: Writings and Correspondence

Series II. Research Collections

Series III. Images

Series IV. Audio-Visual Material

Series V. Realia


Series I. Raymond Adams: Writings and Correspondence

Adams:
  • American Transcendentalism
  • The Thoreau Library of Raymond Adams: A Catalogue
  • The Thoreau Library of Raymond Adams: Supplement

 

 
  • Box 1-5
  • Box 6
  • Box 7

Adams: Correspondence:

  • A - G
  • H - P
  • Piper - V
  • W - Z, and miscellaneous by subject

 

 
  • Box 8
  • Box 9
  • Box 10
  • Box 11

 

 


Series II. Research Collections

 

Greene, Alexander H. Collection:

Correspondence [to Greene, unless otherwise noted]:

  • Letters to and from Edwin B. Hill, Julian W. Abernethy, Paul V.B. Jones, and others [copies]
  • Abernethy, Julian W.
  • Adams, Raymond
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to Julian W. Abernethy]
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to Raymond Adams]
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to A.C, Coolidge]
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to Leon Bazalgette]
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to Edwin B. Hill]
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to Paul V.B. Jones]
  • Greene, Alexander H. [to George Thatcher]
  • Hill, Edwin B.  
  • Jones, V.B.
  • Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous: 

  • Blake, H.G.O. index, notes, clippings re: Early Spring in Massachusetts
  • List of works for sale by Greene
  • Postcards, photo, clippings
  • Box  12
Hill, Edwin B. Collection: 

Correspondence:

  • Hill, Edwin B. to Raymond Adams
  • Miscellaneous 
  • Box 12 
Howe, W.T.H.: transcriptions of correspondence and manuscripts in the collection of W.T.H. Howe
  • Box 13  
Miscellaneous clippings and publications:
  • A - K
  • L - R
  • S - Z
  • 1925-1939
  • 1940-1942
  • 1943-1949
  • 1950--1960, and miscellaneous dates and/or undated
 
  • Box 14
  • Box 15
  • Box 16
  • Box 17
  • Box 18
  • Box 19
  • Box 20
Pictures, brochures, etc. pertaining to Thoreau
  • Box 21
Salt, Henry S. Collection:

Correspondence [to Salt, unless otherwise noted]:

  • Allen, Francis H.
  • Blake, H.G.O. 
  • Blake, H.G.O. [to Daniel G. Mason]
  • Chamberlin, C.R. [to Daniel G. Mason]
  • Chamberlin, Henry H. [to Daniel G. Mason]
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
  • Hill, Edwin
  • Hoar, Edward
  • Hosmer, Alfred W.  
  • Jones, Samuel Arthur
  • Jones, Samuel Arthur [to Edward F. Bigelow] 
  • Jones, Samuel Arthur [to Daniel G. Mason] 
  • Mather, Amanda [to Daniel G. Mason]
  • Parke, Charles S.
  • Ricketson, Daniel 
  • Russell, E.H. [to Daniel G. Mason]
  • Salt, Henry H. [to Raymond Adams]
  • Salt, Henry H. [to Daniel G. Mason]
  • Sanborn, Franklin B.
  • Sanborn, Franklin B. [to Norman Foerster]
  • Vickers, Ernest W.
  • Ward, Annie
  • Miscellaneous correspondence, 1929-1937

Miscellaneous: 

  • Abbott, C.C. "Thoreau"
  • re: Ellery Channing
  • Walden variants from Bixby manuscript
  • Box 22
Thoreau Society-related items
  • Box  23

 


Series III. Images


Series IV. Audio-Visual Material


Series V. Realia

 


 


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