Alcott Family:

• Abby Alcott to Cynthia Thoreau, undated [photocopy and transcription of ALS in Concord Antiquarian Society]
• "Transcendental Wild Oats: A Few Letters from Mrs. Alcott, Wife of the Orphic Philosopher and Mother of Louisa May Alcott, From Fruitlands in 1843" [Springfield Republican, 15 December 1895]

• By
  • Autobiographical Collections [transcription of MS in Houghton Library]
  • Correspondence on Thoreau [transcriptions excerpted from  35  items]
  • "The Forester" [Atlantic Monthly, April 1862]
    • Unidentified review [transcription]
  • "General Maxims by which to regulate the Instructor's Practice in Instruction"
  • Journals on Thoreau [excerpted transcriptions]
  • "Mr. Alcott on Thoreau" [Concord Freeman, 19 August 1880]
  • "Order of In-door Duties for Children"
  • "Reminiscences of Thoreau" [Unidentified source, June 1869]
  • "Some Alcott Conversations in 1863" [ATQ 17]
  • "The Transcendental Club and the Dial: A Conversation by A. Bronson Alcott" [The Commonwealth, 24 April 1863]

• About
  • Bennett, Fordyce Richard "A Note on Alcott and Analogy" [ATQ 38]
  • Biddle, Arthur W
    • Bronson and Chatfield Alcott in Virginia: New Evidence" [ATQ 17]
    • An Uncollected Alcott Letter [ATQ 13]
  • Broderick, John C. "Bronson Alcott's 'Concord Book'" [New England Quarterly, September 1956]
  • Concord Free Public Library "Researcher's Guide to Alcott Material in the Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library"
  • Dahlstrand, Frederick C. "Amos Bronson Alcott: An Intellectual Biography" [typescript: University of Kansas, 1976]
  • Deese, Helen R. "Alcott's Conversations on the Transcendentalists: The Record of Caroline Dall" [American Literature, March 1988]
  • DePuy, Harry "Amos Bronson Alcott: Natural Resource or 'Consecrated Crank'?" [ATQ 3/87]
  • Gordon, Jayne "The Alcott Experience" [Concord Patriot, 14 May 1981]
  • Grose, Howard B., Jr. "Notes on Pedlar's Progress" [American Literature, May 1938]
  • Harding, Walter 
    • "Alcott, Amos Bronson" [typescript for Encyclopedia Americana, 1966]
    • Introduction to Essay on Education by A. Bronson Alcott [typescript and proofs]
  • Harper, George Mills "Toward the Holy Land: Platonism in the Middle West" [South Atlantic Modern Languages Association, March 1967]
  • Henry, Frances "Henry David Thoreau and Bronson Alcott: A Study or Relationships" [Indiana State Teachers College Journal, July 1943]
  • Huffert, Anton "Alcott on Thoreau's Atlas of Concord" [typescript for TSB 56]
  • Images:
    • Bronson Alcott in his study
    • Bronson Alcott on steps of Concord School of Philosophy
    • Bronson Alcott: 1877 portrait by Winckler
    • Concord School of Philosophy
    • Old Manse living room
    • Orchard House
    • Wayside Inn exterior
  • Lyons, Eleann "Chapter 1: Connecticut Heritage" [typescript]
  • Lyons, Nathan "Alcott and Rudolf Steiner: Educators of the Whole Man" [ESQ 57]
  • Miscellaneous:
    • Clippings: [3 items]
    • Correspondence: miscellaneous [14 items]
  • Myerson, Joel
    • "Additions to Bronson Alcott's Bibliography: Letters and 'Orphic Sayings' in the Plain Speaker" [New England Quarterly June 1976]
    • "Bronson Alcott's English Friends" [Resources for American Literary Study Spring 1978]
    • "Bronson Alcott's 'Journal for 1836'" [Studies in the American Renaissance 1978]
    • "Bronson Alcott's 'Scripture for 1840'" [ESQ 20, 4th quarter 1974]
    • "'In the Transcendental Emporium': Bronson Alcott's 'Orphic Sayings' in the Dial" [English Language Notes, September 1972]
  • Sanborn, Franklin B. "Bronson Alcott at Alcott House, England, and Fruitlands, New England, 1842-1844" [ATQ 9]
  • Stearns, C.C. to Amos Bronson Alcott, 18 March 1881 [Transcription of ALS in Houghton Library]
  • Strickland, Charles "A Transcendentalist Father: The Child-rearing Practices of Bronson Alcott" [History of Childhood Quarterly, Summer 1973]
  • Wheeler, Ruth R. "Bronson Alcott" [Concord Journal 27 February 1958]

For other Amos Bronson Alcott  items, search the Henley Library catalog

For materials on the Concord School of Philosophy, see under Harding: C: Concord School of Philosophy

Alcott, Anna

• Pratt, Carrie to Alfred Whitman, 10 June 1860 [transcription; ALS in Houghton library]

• Cameron, Kenneth Walter "Junius S. Alcott, Poet and Transcendentalist" [ESQ 14]

• By
  • "Good-by to winter..." [from Merry's Monthly Chat with his Friends, March 1869]
  • Louisa May Alcott to Alfred Whitman, 11 May 1862 [transcription only of ALS in Houghton Library]
  • Louisa May Alcott to Sophia Ford, 11 May 1862 [transcription only of ALS in the Pierpont Morgan Library]
  • "Louisa May Alcott and 'Thoreau's Flute'" Two Letters" [Huntington Library Quarterly 24]
  • A Sprig of Andromeda: A Letter from Louisa May Alcott on the Death of Henry David Thoreau [Pierpont Morgan Library, 1962]
  • Transcendental Wild Oats [publicity from Harvard Common Press]

• About
  • Anderson, William T. "Louisa May Alcott" [American History Illustrated, March 1988]
  • Cadogan, Mary "'Sweet, if Somewhat Tomboyish': The British Response to Louisa May Alcott"  [from Critical Essays on Louisa May Alcott]
  • Elbert, Sarah "Challenging the Canon of American Literature" [AB, 18-25 July 1988]
  • Garboden, Clif "Louisa May Alcott" [Boston Globe Magazine, 7 September 1986]
  • Hawthorne, Hildegarde "An Adventure with 'Little Women'" [Delineator 192?]
  • Lauderdale, Beverly "Jo March Revisited: Another Look at Luisa May Alcott" [Yankee, April 1977]
  • Lothrop, Margaret "Children of the Wayside" [Child Life, November 1938]
  • Myerson, Joel, and Daniel Shealy. "The Sales of Louisa May Alcott's Books" [Harvard Library Bulletin, Spring 1990]
  • Quindlan, Anna "She was Jo, and That Was That" [NY Times Book Review, 3 March 1991]
  • Saxton, Martha Louisa May: A Modern Biography [reviews and advertisements: 3 items]
  • Smith, Roger B. Photo of Louisa May Alcott's grave. 
  • "Three Contemporary Accounts of Louisa May Alcott, with Glimpses of Other Concord Notables" edited by Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy [reprinted from The New England Quarterly, March 1986]

    For other Louisa May Alcott  items,  search the Henley Library catalog

    For materials on the Alcott's novel, Moods: see under Harding: Fiction: Alcott

• Lownes, Albert E. Introduction to Concord Sketches by May Alcott [typescript]

Bedell, Madelon The Alcotts [reviews and correspondence: 8 items]

The Bronson Alcott Society [2 items]

• Deedy, John "Fruitlands: Memorial to Transcendentalism" [NY Times, 12 August 1973]
• Fruitlands Museums [postcard]
• Greenwood, Douglas McCreary "Fruitful Dream" [Boston Globe, 21 August 1980]
• Harrison, William H to Walter Harding, 9 April 1977 [TLS]
• Wynne-Tyson, Esme "Fruitlands" [The British Vegetarian, July/August 1969]

• The Alcott House Campaign Newsletter [April 1983; June 1983; September 1983; March 1984]
• The Alcott House Friends Newsletter [November 1982]
• The Alcott House [11 postcards]
• The Campaign for Orchard House brochure
• Daniel, Lucille "Blanding kicks off Alcott series in style" [Concord Journal?]
• Garrelick, Renee "Two historic houses undergo restoration: Handwriting on the wall" [Concord Journal, 20 May 1982]
• Gordon, Jayne to Walter Harding, 16 May 1976 [TLS]
• Miller, Margo "House of the Alcotts' Spirits" [Boston Globe, 11 November 1993]

By

• "The Hermit of Concord" [Monthly Religious Magazine, June 1866]
•  "The Transmigration of Souls" [North American Review, January 1855]

About

•  Scharnhorst, Gary 
  • "Biographical Blindspots: The Case of the Cousins Alger" [Biography 6/2]
  • "W.R. Alger: Forgotten Man of Letters" [typescript for ATQ 53]

By

• "Editing Thoreau" [Saturday Review of Literature, 14 March 1936]
• Nature's Diary reviews [11 items]
• [Notes on Thoreau's works transcribed from a set of Thoreau's writings now in the Concord Free Public Library]
• "Thoreau's Arm: A Correction" [Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, January 1950]

About

• Balch, Francis "Ornithologists Alive! IV. Francis H. Allen" [Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, April 1945]
• Harding, Walter "In Tribute to Francis H. Allen"

For other Francis Allen  items, search the Henley Library catalog

Allen, Irving:

• Allen, Irving: 
  • "Cynthia and Sophia Thoreau" from "American Women to Whom the World Is Indebted" [transcription: The Independent, 25 July 1895]
  • "Letter to the Editor" [Boston Daily Advertiser, 3 March 1894]
  • "Of the Thoreaus and of Other People in Concord" [Boston Daily Advertiser, 23 April 1894]
• Sanborn, Franklin B. "Letter to the Editor: Mr. Sanborn Corrects Mr. Allen" [Boston Daily Advertiser, 25 April 1894]

Allen, Phineas:

• Allen, Phineas "Concord Academy" [transcription: Yeoman's Gazette, 4 August 1827]
• Hosmer, Gladys "Phineas Allen, Thoreau's Preceptor" [typescript for TSB #59]

Allingham, William:

• Allingham, William Letters to William Allingham [photocopied excerpts (London, 1911)]
• Cameron, Kenneth Walter "William Allingham and Emerson: Some New Evidence" [v 1957]

Altherr, Thomas L. "'Chaplain to the Hunters': Henry David Thoreau's Ambivalence Toward Hunting" [typescript and American Literature October 1984]

Amiel, Henri-Frederic:

• Leighton, Caroline C. Swiss Thoreau [photocopy: Boston, 1890]

• Cantine, Holley "The Direct Actionists and the Bird Watchers" [Liberation, April 1963]
• Chodorov, Frank "Henry David Thoreau' [Analysis, November 1945, and typescript]
• Drinnon, Richard "Thoreau's Politics of the Upright Man" [Anarchy, April 1963]
• Elliott, Nick "Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862: Individualist and Dissenter" [Libertarian Heritage No. 2]
• Johannsen, Oscar B. "Men Against the State" [Fragments, April-June 1980]
• Lynd, Staughton
  • "Henry Thoreau: The Admirable Radical" [Liberation, February 1963]
  • "Response" [with Cantine]
• Morris, John "America's Gentle Anarchist" [Religious Humanism, Spring 1969]
• Nelson, Truman "A Society Not Yet Formed" [with Cantine]
• Rainer, Dachine "Who are The Anarchists?" [with Cantine]
• Richman, Victor "More Than Our Minds Can Map" [with Cantine]
• Wheeler, Jo Alan "Reflections on an Early American" [Why?, July-August 1943]
• Wieck, D.T. "The Community of Principle" [with Cantine]
• Woodcock, George "Thoreau" [War Commentary, January 1943]

• The Magic Circle of Walden [Uncorrected Proof]
• "Thoreau Takes a Pot Shot at Carolina Sports" [Georgia Review, Fall 1968]
• Correspondence: Anderson to Harding [11 items]
• Correspondence: Harding to Anderson [2 items]
• Miscellaneous [4 items]

Anderson, Esther Howe [1 folder]

Anecdotes

• Brooks, Lucille E. to Harding [ALS, 29 January 1961]
• "Globe Man's Daily Story" [Boston Globe, 7 June 196?]
• Glutsch, Helen E. "Letter to the Editor" [typed transcription from The Saturday Review, 20 August 1931]
• McDowell, Maud Appleton. "Childhood in Concord" from her The Joy of Memories [1937]
• "Strong Man" [Boston Post (?) ca. 1947]
• The Taverner "Reminiscences of Thoreau, II" [typed transcription fromTime and the Hour, 1896]
• "When Henry Thoreau was eight..." [Unidentified newspaper piece, ca. 1960]

Anti-Slavery

• Chamberlain, Margareth to Harding [ALS, 31 May 1956] Re: Walden as a stop on the Underground Railroad
• Collison, Gary L.
  • "The Boston Vigilance Committee: A Reconsideration" [Historical Journal of Massachusetts, June 1984]
  • "Shadrach in Concord" [Typescript]
• Emerson, Edward "Notes on the Underground Railway in Concord, and the Concord Station and officers thereof with the facts concerning Henry Thoreau's relations to it, made in 1892 from memory of a talk with old Mrs. Bigelow" [Harding typescript of original in Concord Free Public Library?]
• Fenn, Mary "Were There Slaves in Concord?" [Concord Patriot, 29 January 1981]
• Ford, Nick Aaron "Henry David Thoreau, Abolitionist" [New England Quarterly, September 1946]
• Grimké, Archibald H. "Anti-Slavery Boston" [New England Magazine, December 1890]
• Kritzberg, Barry
  • "Thoreau, Slavery and Resistance to Civil Government" [The Massachusetts review, Winter 1989]
  • "Washington Goode, Henry David Thoreau and Capital Punishment" [Typescript for TSB #182]
• Perry, Lewis. Excerpt from Radical Abolitionism: Anarchy and the Government of God in Antislavery Thought [Cornell University Press, 1973]
• Pillsbury, Parker to Alfred W. Hosmer, 27 August 1890 [Harding transcription of manuscript in the Concord Free Public Library]
• Toda, Ann "Racial Tensions, Strides Recalled by Residents" [The Concord Journal, 9 May 1991]
• Turner, Lorenzo Dow. Excerpt from Anti-Slavery Sentiment in American Literature Prior to 1865 [Kennikat Press, 1966]

Architecture

• Chandler, Marilyn. Excerpts from Walden: A Manifesto in Wood and Stone [University of California Press, 1991]
• Fink, Steven "Building America: Henry Thoreau and the American Home" [Prospects1986]

Armstrong, Robert Grenville

• "Measuring Life – I: A Study of the Message of Thoreau" [The Christian Leader, 16 September 1933]
• "Measuring Life – II: A Study of the Message of Thoreau" [The Christian Leader, 23 September 1933]

Arvin, Newton

• "Thoreau v. Thoreau" from Arvin's American Pantheon, edited by Daniel Aaron and Sylvan Schendler [New York: Delacorte, 1966]

Arts and Crafts

• Bartinique, A. Patricia "Thoreau's Life and Writings: An Arts and Crafts Primer" [The Sixth Annual Grove Park Inn Arts & Crafts Conference and Antiques Show, 1993]

Astrology

• Miscellaneous items regarding Thoreau's astrological chart

Astronomy

• Levy, David H. "The Feel of the Night" [Sky & Telescope, October 1995]
• Ryzewski, Tom: correspondence with Harding, and draft of article: "Analysis of the 12/2/1853 Observation of the Moon by HDT"

Atkinson, J. Brooks

By:

• "Boyhood Essays of Thoreau Found" [Boston Transcript, 3 June 1916]
• "Century After Thoreau's Death, American Knows How 'Great a Son It Has Lost'" [NY Times, 8 May 1962]
• "Outdoors: Walkers Know Countless Riches" [NY Times, 17 April 1978]
• "Thoreau" in Shaw, Harry A Collection of Readings for Writers [New York: Harper, 1949]
• "Topics: Thoreau's Message after 150 Years" [NY Times, 15 July 1967]

Correspondence:

• Atkinson to Harding: 20 items
• Harding to Atkinson: 2 items
• Atkinson to T.L. Bailey, copy,1 item re: declining Thoreau Society presidency
• Sheratsky, Rodney R. to Harding, 2 items, re: Atkinson biography

About:

• Atkinson, J. Brooks The Cosmic Yankee, book reviews of [6 items]
• Atkinson, J. Brooks Once Around the Sun, book reviews of [1 item]

Atlantic Monthly

• Borst, Raymond "Thoreau Advertisements from the Atlantic Monthly, 1862-1868. [Typescript, for TSB #129]
• Sedgwick, Ellery "The early Years of the Atlantic Monthly [ATQ 58]

Auden, W.H.

• Miller, Charles H. Photocopied excerpt from Miller's Auden: An American Friendship, re: Thoreau.

Auster, Paul

• Auster, Paul. Photocopied excerpts from Auster's Ghosts.
• Begley, Adam "Case of the Brooklyn Symbolist" [NY Times Magazine, 30 August 1992]

Austin, Mary

• Anderson, Barbara to Walter Harding [TLS, 11 October 1973] Re: Austin's mother on quoting Thoreau. For TSB #126.
• Young, Vernon "Mary Austin and the Earth Performance" [Southwest Review, Spring 1950]