The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods Library

A Finding Aid to the Paul Brooks Collection

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Rachel Carson

About Rachel Carson

• By Paul Brooks

  • "Carrot Island" [speech]

  • "Carson, Rachel Louise"

  • "Carson's Warning on Pesticides Founded in Facts" [Letter to the editor, undated/unidentified publication]

  • "Courage of Rachel Carson"

  • The Impact of Silent Spring" [The Boston Globe, 5 October 1983]

  • "Rachel Carson" [Book-of-the-Month Club News, September 1962]

  • "Rachel Carson" [The Nature Conservancy New, September 1964]

  • "Rachel Carson and Silent Spring" / "Speaking About Rachel Carson" [speech]

See also box, The House of Life

• By Ann Cottrell Free

  • "Area Owes Big Debt to Gentle Naturalist" [EnviroSouth, 1977]

  • "The Great Awakening" [This Week Magazine, 13 April 1969]

  • "In the 10th Year of Silent Spring" [Washington Daily News(?), 24 December 1972]

  • "The Opening of the Door" [Defenders of Wildlife News, July-August 1972]

  • "Rachel Carson, 1907-1964" [Defenders of Wildlife News Bulletin, May-July 1964]

  • "Rachel Carson's Living Legacy" [The Washington Post, 3 September 1975]

  • "The Real Rachel Carson" [The Izaak Walton Magazine, 1963]

  • "Silent Spring Speaks Loud" [The Izaak Walton Magazine, 1963]

  • "Why We Listened to Silent Spring" [The Washington Post, 15 April 1965]

   

• Miscellaneous

  • Briggs, Shirley A.

    • "A Decade after Silent Spring" [Friends Journal, 1 March 1972]

    • "The Heritage of Silent Spring"

    • "Your Role for a Quality Environment" [Transactions of the Thirty-Sixth North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference]

  • Lear, Linda. "Bombshell in Beltsville: The USDA and the Challenge of Silent Spring" [Agricultural History, Spring 1992]

  • Udall, Stewart. "The Legacy of Rachel Carson" 

  • Williams, terry Tempest. "The Spirit of Rachel Carson" [Audubon, July/August 1992]

  • Miscellaneous clippings

• "Parker River--A New England Conservation Project"

Correspondence:

• Paul Brooks, miscellaneous from

• Paul Brooks, miscellaneous to

• Paul Brooks/Houghton Mifflin Company

• Paul Brooks/Deanne Urmy

• Shirley Briggs to Paul Brooks

• Rachel Carson / Curtis Bok [typed transcriptions]

• Rachel Carson / Paul Brooks 

• Rachel Carson / Robert Cushman Murphy [photocopies]

• Francis Collin

Films and plays about Rachel Carson

• Correspondence: Rachel Carson to Dorothy Freeman [photocopies]

• Correspondence: Dorothy Freeman to Paul Brooks

• RE: Always Rachel: The Letters of Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, 1952-1964

• Rachel Carson Homestead Association
• Rachel Carson House
• Rachel Carson Preserve

• Japan Rachel Carson Council
• Rachel Carson Council 

Pesticides and cancer

• Of Rachel Carson [various photographers]
• Of Paul Brooks [various photographers]
• Of Bulls Island, SC, by Edwin Way Teale

Silent Spring

• Contract

• 25th Anniversary Edition: Introduction, afterword, correspondence

• Manuscript leaf 
• "Notes on three manuscript pages" [photocopy]

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