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Box [x]: Thoreau: Writings: Civil Disobedience

 

3 manuscript boxes [Boxes 1-3]                                                          

Processor: Bert Saul

Date: April 2004
 

Scope & Content: This portion of The Walter R. Harding Papers consists mainly of articles, essays, and clippings about Thoreau’s essay “Civil Disobedience” for the period 1849 – 1992. The articles and essays are in separate folders sorted alphabetically by the author’s last name. The clippings, mainly from newspapers and magazines, are sorted chronologically into three folders with date ranges of 1849-1959, 1960s, and 1970-1992.

There are also several published copies and excerpts of “Civil Disobedience” as well as page proofs of Harding’s The Variorum Civil Disobedience. In addition, there is correspondence between Walter Harding and others about matters related to “Civil Disobedience” for the period 1951-1989 and some interesting clippings, handouts, etc. having to do with resistance movements, non-violence, and war taxes for the period 1943-1985. Finally, there are limited materials related to how “Civil Disobedience” was included as part of the Aesthetic Papers, Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers, and the Reform Papers.

 

Box & Folder list:

Box 1

 Walter Harding [4 folders]

 The Variorum Civil Disobedience (5)

1 carbon copy

1 set page proofs

Review by August Derleth in Capital Times; Jan. 4, 1968

Review by Ruth Wheeler in Concord Journal; Feb. 29, 1968

Review by George Hendrick in ESQ, 56; 1969

 

Correspondence between WH and others about Civil Disobedience, 1951-1989

            Sorted by last name of correspondent with WH

 

Albert, John (1)                                    1970

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

American Heritage (2)                        1974

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 1)

 

American Literature Abstracts (1)      1968

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

 

Bailey, Theodore L. (1)                        1967

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Bougere, Mrs. Walter C., Jr. (1)           1951

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Baker, Gail (1)                         1968

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Bedau, Hugh Adam (3)             1968-1969

(To WH – 2 / From WH – 1)

 

Blau, Joseph L. (2)                               1968

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 1)

 

Chaput, Sylvie (2)                                 1981-1982

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Cohen, Larry (1)                                  1980

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

D’Avanzo, Mario L. (1)                        1976

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Dickens, Robert S. (1)                          1961

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Ehrsam, Theodore G. (1)                      1973

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Epler, Bob (1)                                      [n.d.]

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

G. & C. Merriam Company (2)            1968

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 1)

 

Gagnon, Ray (2)                                   1972

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Attachment: Quotes from The Variorum Walden and Civil Disobedience and from Daniel Berrigan’s No Bars to Manhood

 

Gallant, Barbara (3)                              1964-1966

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 1)

Letter: Inquiry from Barbara Gallant to Mrs. Hosmer, forwarded to WH.

 

Galvin, Robert J. (2)                             1984

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Court decision: Judge Shaw cites Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience in Conclusion of his decision.

 

Gillespie, Paul G. (2)                             1968

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 1)

 

Gilman, Beryl (1)                                  1971

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Godine, David R. (3)                            1967

(To WH – 2 / From WH – 1)

 

Hagita, Sumiko (1)                               1965

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Hale, Richard W., Jr. (2)                      1973

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Statutes: “Chapter 8 (of the Collection of Taxes)” from The Revised Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Passed November 4, 1835…”

 

Hoagland, Clayton. (1)             1971

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Johnson, Edward A. (1)                        1989

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Jones, Joseph (1)                                  1956

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Lea, James F. (2)                                 1976

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Abstract: Lea’s study of “Thoreau: Politics and Philosophy”

 

Lytle, Bradford (2)                               1969

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Photograph: Thoreau sign carried in April 5 [1969] antiwar parade in New York City

 

Madden, Edward H. (1)                       1968

(To WH – 3 / From WH – 2)

Main subject of discussion is whether Thoreau “coined” the phrase “Civil Disobedience.”

 

Markle, Carl, Jr. (1)                             1967

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

McElrath, Joe (1)                                 1975

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Minster, Charles M. (2)                        1970

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 1)

 

Paquin, Sharon M. (1)                          1971

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Pederson, Lee A. (2)                            1959

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Typescript: “Thoreau’s Source of the Motto in ‘Civil Disobedience’” (for TSB 67)

 

Reeder, James D. (1)                            1969

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Schmidt, Earl R. (1)                              1966

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Shurr, William H. (1)                            1979

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Small, Alvin L. (1)                                1972

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Story, Richard W. (1)                           1965

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

Thompson, David M. (1)                      1968

(To WH – 0 / From WH – 1)

 

Tolles, Frederick B. (6)                        1963

(To WH – 4 / From WH – 1)

Letter: Inquiry sent by Tolles to Reference Librarian at Concord Free Public Library which was then forwarded to WH.

 

Wellman, S. T. (2)                                1965

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Brochure: Wellman Products Co. – Manufacturers of Bronze and Aluminum Tablets and Architectural Letters

 

Wyld, Lionel D. (2)                              1968

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Abstract: “The Influence of Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’” by WH for inclusion in New York American Studies Newsletter

 

Zivley, Sherry (1)                                  1975

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

 

[unknown], John (1)                             1971

(To WH – 0 / From WH – 1)

Subject: WH’s response to John’s “provocative paper” about Thoreau.

 

[unknown] (1)                                      1967

(To WH – 1 / From WH – 0)

Subject: Annotated sources for articles, that appeared in The Minority of One, mentioning Thoreau

 

Book reviews written by Walter Harding (2)

Review of Civil Disobedience and Moral Law in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy by Edward H. Madden

Review of The Morality of Civil Disobedience by Robert T. Hall

 

“Civilized Disobedience” (5)

Pamphlet: WANTED: This Man’s Views on Student-Faculty Dissent; contains announcement about “Civilized Disobedience” to be presented at Convocation of State University College at Genesco on Sept. 9, 1968 by WH

Convocation program

Thoreau Society publication of “Civilized Disobedience”, including invocation and benediction

Galley proofs of Thoreau Society publication of “Civilized Disobedience”, including invocation and benediction

Article about WH’s speech in local Genesco newspaper; Sept. 27, 1968

 

Articles/Essays about “Civil Disobedience” [93 folders]

Separate folders sorted by author’s last name

 

Adams, Raymond (3)

Essay: “Thoreau’s Sources for ‘Resistance to Civil Government’” :  Studies in Philology, XLII; July 3, 1945.

Presentation: “’Civil Disobedience’ Gets Printed” (to be read at Thoreau Society Meeting, Concord, Mass., July 9, 1949)

Article: “Concord Sage: Thoreau’s Night in Jail, Symbol of Resistance” : Trenton [N.J.] Advertiser; May 6, 1962.

 

Adams, Thomas B.

Article: “History Looks Ahead: The road less traveled” : The Boston Globe; Mar. 31, 1979.

 

Adler, Dr. Mortimer J. (2)

Article: “Civil Disobedience Follows Tradition of Henry Thoreau” : Long Island Press; Aug. 18, 1963.

Article: “Thoreau’s Act of Passive Resistance Is Remembered” : Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch; May 16, 1965.

 

Allen, Woody

Article: “A Brief, Yet Helpful, Guide to Civil Disobedience” : [unknown]; [n.d.]

 

Ament, Ernest J.

Essay: “Socrates and Henry David Thoreau: a study in civil disobedience” : Graduate Comment [Wayne State University], X, no. 4; 1967.

 

Anastaplo, George

Essay: “On Civil Disobedience: Thoreau and Socrates” : Southwest Review ; Spring 1969.

 

Arendt, Hannah

Essay: “Reflections: Civil Disobedience” : The New Yorker; Sept. 12, 1970.

 

Atkinson, Brooks (2)

Review: “Thoreau’s Essay on ‘Civil Disobedience’” : New York Times Book Review; Jan. 13, 1929.

Article: “Critic at Large: Quotation by Humes After Detention Here Recalls Rebellious Influence of Thoreau” : New York Times; Dec. 2, 1960.

 

Ayars, James S.

Article: “Civil Disobedience, Yesterday and Today” : Friends Journal; Sept. 1, 1964.

 

Bennett, Fordyce Richard

Article: “Thoreau and Alcott’s Papers on Government” : [unknown]; [n.d.]

 

Broderick, John C. (4)

Abstract: “Abolition for Art’s Sake: The Creation of ‘Civil Disobedience’”: American Literature Section, Modern Language Assoc. – Annual Report; Jan. 1971.

Essay: “Abolition for Art’s Sake: The Creation of ‘Civil Disobedience’”: [unknown]; [n.d.]

Essay: “Thoreau, Alcott, and the Poll Tax” : Studies in Philology : [n.d.]

Galley proof, corrected in author’s hand

Article: “Young Thoreau Asserts Himself” : [unknown]; [n.d.]

May have appeared in Thoreau Society Bulletin (TSB) 53

 

Buckley, William F., Jr. et al

Articles: “A baker’s dozen of writers comment: On Civil Disobedience, 1967” : New York Times Magazine; Nov. 26, 1967.

Other writers include: Noam Chomsky, John Cogley, John Dollard, James T. Farrell, Lewis S. Feuer, Paul Goodman, Sidney Hook, Herbert C. Kelman, Irving Kristol, Dwight Macdonald, Richard H. Rovere, Bayard Rustin

 

Cantor, Milton

Reviews of “Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics and the Law” by Carl Cohen and “Undeclared War and Civil Disobedience: The American System in Crisis” in Society : March 1972.

 

Caponigri, A. Robert

Essay: “Individual, Civil Society, and State in American Transcendentalism” : American Philosophy; 1977.

 

Carper, Thomas R.

Article: “The Whole History of Thoreau’s ‘My Prisons’” : ESQ, 50; 1968.

 

Christie, John Aldrich

Article: “Thoreau on Civil Resistance” : ESQ, 54; 1969.

Includes Preface by Reginald L. Cok

 

Combellack, C.R.B.

Essay: “Two Critics of Society” : The Pacific Spectator; Autumn 1949.

Harding notes “an excellent contrast and comparison of Marx and Thoreau.”

 

Conn, Howard

Presentation/Sermon: “The Value of Non-Conformity” (presented at Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Oct. 30, 1949)

 

Cournos, John

Essay: “Hater of Shams: In Jail with Thoreau and His Thoughts” : The Century Magazine; [n.d.]

 

Deese, Helen R.

Essay: “A Majority of One: Henry David Thoreau as a Political Thinker” : Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, v.28, no.3; Oct. 1983.

 

Dooley, Patrick K.

Essay: “Thoreau on Civil Disobedience: From Pacificism to Violence” : Journal of Thought, 13; 1978.

Harding notes “a pretty strong statement but I think perhaps a valid one.”

 

Dogns, Robert                                                                                                 

Essay: “Terrible Power of the Meek: Henry David Thoreau’s Resistance to Civil Government, 1849” in Molders of the Modern Mind, New York: Barnes & Nobles, 1961.

 

Drinan, Robert F.

Editorial about: “The rough course of dissent” : Boston Sunday Globe; June 1, 1980.

Harding notes “HDT and R. Drinan – V.Good

 

Duban, James (2)

Essay: “Thoreau, Garrison, and Dymond: Unbending Firmness of the Mind” : American Literature, v.57, no.2; May 1985.

Essay: “Conscience and Consciousness: The Liberal Christian Context of Thoreau’s Political Ethics” : The New England Quarterly, v.60, no.2; June 1987.

 

Dugger, Celia W.

Article: “Brass Tacks: A Matter of Conscience” : Harvard Crimson; Apr. 14, 1979.

 

Dymond, Jonathan

Essay: “Civil Obedience” (Ch.5) in Essays on the Principles of Morality, 1829.

 

Ehrlich, Michael G.

Essay: “Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’: Strategy for Reform” : Connecticut Review, 7; Oct. 1973.

 

Eulau, Heinz

Essay: “Wayside Challenger: Some Remarks on the Politics of Henry David Thoreau” : The Antioch Review, 9; Winter 1949-50.

Harding notes “chiefly gobbledygook and nonsense.”

 

Fergensen, Loraine (2)

Essay: “Thoreau, Daniel Berrigan, and the Problem of Transcendental Politics” : Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, v.65, no.1; Spring 1982.

Textbook excerpts (edited by Fergensen): Section on “Civil Disobedience” and section on “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (Martin Luther King)

 

Friedman, David

Article: “The radical” why go to jail?” : The New Guard, 9; Nov. 1969.

 

Garson, Sandra

Article: “Civil disobedience: The spirit survives – and thrives – in Maine” : Boston Globe; Aug. 22, 1981.

 

Glick, Wendell (2)

Essay: “’Civil Disobedience’: Thoreau’s Attack on Relativism” : Western Humanities Review, 7; Winter ’52 ’53.

Essay: “Scholarly Editing and Dealing with Uncertainties: Thoreau’s ‘Resistance to Civil Government” : Analytical and Enumerative Bibliography, v.2, no.2; Spring 1978.

 

Griswold, Erwin N. (2)

Lecture: “Dissent – 1968 Style” (The George Abel Dreyfous Lecture on Civil Liberties, Given at the Tulane University of Law on Apr. 16, 1968)

Article: “Dissent-1968 Style: Griswold Sees Restraint as Key” : Washington Sunday Star; Apr. 21, 1968.

 

Hechinger, Fred M.

Article: “Student Rebels Borrow Freely From Ideas of Others Abroad, But the Objectives of the Current Wave of Insurrections in the U.S. Differ Widely From Those of European Activists” : New York Times; May 30, 1968.

 

Herr, William A.

Essay: “Thoreau: A Civil Disobedient?” : Ethics, 85; 1974-5.

 

Hesburgh, Rev. Theodore M.

Address: “The Moral Dimensions of the Civil Rights Movement” (presented before the meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA, Nov. 11, 1964)

 

Box 2

 

Hollis, C. Carroll

Essay: “Thoreau and the State” : The Commonweal; Sept. 9, 1949.

 

Holmes, John Haynes

Essay: “Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’” : The Christian Century; June 29, 1949.

 

Jamison, Michael (2)

Article: “Walden’s Distant Shore: Singing The Song Called Winter” : New Horizons; Jan/Feb 1978.

Article: “Walden’s Distant Shore: Giving Unto Caesar” : New Horizons; Mar/Apr 1978.

 

Johannsen, Oscar B.

Essay: “Civil Disobedience” : Fragments, v.5, no.2; [n.d.]

 

Johnstone, Christopher Lyle

Essay: “Thoreau and Civil Disobedience: A Rhetorical Paradox” : The Quarterly Journal of Speech, 60; Oct. 1974.

 

Jones, Louis C.

Article: “Newton Barn Cache Leads to a Pioneer Tale: Negro Years Ahead of Thoreau in Urging Civil Disobedience” : Boston Globe; July [], 1963.

 

Jones, Samuel Arthur (8)

Copy of letter from Jones to Alfred W. Hosmer; May 27, 1894.

2 copies of letter from Jones to Alfred W. Hosmer; Nov. 19, 1894.

Copy of letter from Jones to Alfred W. Hosmer; Nov. 25, 1895.

Copy of letter from Jones to Alfred W. Hosmer; July 8, 1896.

Article: “Thoreau’s Incarceration (As Told by his Jailer)” : Reprinted by photo-off-set from The Inlander of Ann Arbor, Michigan for Dec. 1898 (IX, 96-103) by the Thoreau Society.

Article: “Thoreau’s Incarceration (As Told by his Jailer)” : Page proofs of reprint from The Inlander of Ann Arbor, Michigan for Dec. 1898 (IX, 96-103) by the Thoreau Society.

Article: “Thoreau’s Incarceration (As Told by his Jailer)” : Oriole Press edition; 1962.

 

Kalvern, Harry, Jr.

Essay: “Thoreau: ‘It was his verbal message, not the symbolic message, that had the impact and was successful’” : Center Magazine, 3; May 1970.

 

Kasegawa, Koh

Essay: “An Interpretation of Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’” : Aoyama Journal of General Education, no. 4; Nov. 1963.

 

Kleine, Don W.

Essay: “ Civil Disobedience: The Way to Walden” : Modern Language Notes, v.75; Apr. 1960.

 

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Essay: “If You Don’t Mind My Saying So……” : American Scholar, 37; Winter 1967.

Notes from WH on first page.

 

Lane, Lauriat, Jr. (2)

Essay: “The Structure of Protest: Thoreau’s Polemical Essays” : Humanities Association Bulletin, 20; Fall 1969.

Article: “’Civil Disobedience’: A Bibliographical Note” : The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, v.63; Fourth Quarter, 1969.

 

Lee, Leon H.

Essay: “The Literary Antecedents of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience” (Microfiche/microcards from University of Kentucky Press, Kentucky Microcards, Series A, No. 189)

Harding notes “A rather unconvincing study of Thoreau’s supposed sources of the ideas of civil disobedience…”

 

Le Moyne College

Student Publication: Copy of Nov. 1991 edition of The Grewen Review with lead headline of “Civil Disobedience: The Legacy of Thoreau is Destroyed.”

 

Lundquist, James

Essay: “On Thoreau and Civil Disobedience: An Apology for Henry” : National Review; Aug. 13, 1968.

 

Madden, Edward. H. (2)

Page proofs of essay “Civil Disobedience” with accompanying letter to Walter Harding dated Aug. 7, 1968.

Essay: “Civil Disobedience” : Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas; [1973]

 

            McCormick, Rory

Essay: “When Laws Should Be Broken: Civil Disobedience can be a virtuous act” : Ave Maria; Nov. 30, 1963.

 

Meserve, Harry C.

Sermon/Essay: “What is Loyalty?” (Sermon Series of The Unitarian Church of the Larger Fellowship), [n.d.]

 

Miller, William Lee

Essay: “The Problem of the Man More Right Than his Neighbor” in Of Thee, Nevertheless, I Sing: An Essay on American Political Values, New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1975]

 

Miller, William Robert

Essay: “Civil Disobedience” in Nonviolence: A Christian Interpretation, New York : Association Press, [1964]

 

Moneyhun, George

Essay: “Civil disobedience: shape of debate…” : Christian Science Monitor; July 20-22, 1968 issue.

 

Neff, Nancy

Article: “Discovery may alter studies of Thoreau, others” : The Alumnus (Univ. of Mass. at Amherst v.17, no.1; Dec. 1985 – Jan. 1986.

 

Nelson, William Stuart

Address: [untitled] delivered at the annual meeting of the Thoreau Society on July 11, 1964, and reprinted from the Concord Journal.

(Begins “This year Americans significantly have observed concurrently the centennial anniversaries of Thoreau’s death and the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.”)

 

Oehlschlaeger, Fritz

Essay: “Another Look at the Text and Title of Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience” : ESQ, 36; 3rd quarter 1990.

 

O’Leary, Dale

Article (Op-Ed): “The case of Joan Andrews” : The Pilot; Aug. 5, 1988.

 

Orloski, Richard J.

Essay: “Civil Disobedience: When the protestor’s intent is virtuous, should the jury acquit?” : Liberty; Mar/Apr 1977.

 

Parke, Fran

Article: “Today’s Protestors Carry On Old Battle of Conscience vs. Law” : Lancaster New Era; March 6, 1969.

 

Poger, Sidney

Essay: “Thoreau’s ‘Resistance to Civil Government’” : The Leaflet, 69; Feb. 1970.

 

Reynolds, Horace

Article: “Thoreau, Emerson, and Taxes” : Christian Science Monitor; Sept. 30, 1963.

 

Robinson, James R.

Review of “Civil Disobedience” in Conscientious Objector, Feb. 1942.

 

Rossman, Michael

Essay: “Notes from the County Jail” : The New York Review; Feb. 15, 1968.

 

Rostow, Eugene V. (2)

Address: “The Consent of the Governed” delivered at Monticello, under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Charlottesville, VA, July 4, 1968.

Letter: From Rostow to Walter Harding; July 24, 1968.

 

Roth, John K.

Essay: “The only obligation which I have a right to assume” in American Dreams: Meditations on Life in the United States, San Francisco : Chandler & Sharp, [1976]

 

Rovere, Richard

Essay: “Freedom: Who needs it?” : The Atlantic, 221; May, 1968.

 

Saalbach, Robert Palmer

Essay: “Thoreau and Civil Disobedience” : Ball State Univ. Forum, 12; Autumn 1972.

 

Sanders, Frederick K.

Essay: “Mr. Thoreau’s Timebomb” : National Review, 20; June 4, 1968.

 

Scharfenberg, Kirk

Article: “City Circuit: IRS readying its big guns” : Boston Globe; Mar. 8, 1980.

 

Shapiro, Fred C.

Article: “God and That Man at Yale” : The New York Times Magazine; Mar. 3, 1968.

 

Snyder, Dean

Essay: “Civil Disobedience: What it Means” : Christian Century, 100; Apr. 27, 1983.

Harding notes “an excellent exposition.”

 

Srivastava, Ramesh K.

Essay: “Thoreau’s Strategy in ‘Civil Disobedience’” : Gueta Journal of English Studies, v.1, no.1; 1990.

 

Stewart, Joffre

Address: “Some Implications of Nonviolence in the Montgomery Resistance Movement” delivered at Quaker House, Chicago, on Mar. 15, 1956.

 

Tatalovich, Raymond

Essay: “Thoreau on Civil Disobedience: In Defense of Morality or Anarchy?” : Southern Quarterly, 11; Jan. 1973.

 

Thompson, David M. (2)

Proposal for an honors thesis: “Changing attitudes towards Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience” : Yale University, 1967.

Letter: Thompson to WH; Nov. 16, 1967.

 

Tompkins, Phillip K. (2)

Essay: “On ‘Paradoxes’ in the Rhetoric of the New England Transcendentalists” : Quarterly Journal of Speech, 62; Feb. 1976.

Letter: Tompkins to WH; Aug. 5, 1976.

 

Tripathy, Shrinibas (2)

Essay: “Starving Out Evil: Brahminism and Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’” to be published in Thoreau Society Bulletin.

Letter: Tripathy to WH; Dec. 15, 1985.

 

Van Dusen, Lewis H., Jr.

Essay: “Civil Disobedience: Destroyer of Democracy” : American Bar Association Journal, 55; Feb. 1969.

 

Wallis, Charles L.

Essay: “Gandhi’s Source Book” : Christian Register, 128; Sept. 1969.

 

Walter, Nicolas

Essay: “Disobedience and the new pacifism” : Anarchy, 11; Apr. 1962.

 

Warren, Lucian

Article: “History’s Lesson on Civil Disorder: It Can Backfire” : Buffalo Evening News; May 1, 1971.

 

Watson, Bruce

Essay: “The Origin of Civil Disobedience” : Fellowship; Mar. 1965.

 

Wiecek, William M.

Essay: “Latimer: Lawyers, Abolitionists, and the Problem of Unjust Laws” in Antislavery Remembered; Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University, 1979.

Harding notes “Important historical background for CD.”

 

Wiggins, J. R.

Article: “Dissent: Theory and Practice” : Washington Post, Feb. 11, 1968.

 

Wills, Garry

Article: “Why did Thoreau start it?” : National Catholic Reporter; Nov. 17, 1965.

 

Wood, Barry

Essay: “Thoreau’s Narrative Art in ‘Civil Disobedience’” : Philological Quarterly, 60; Winter 1981.

 

Woods, Eleanor

Essay: “Cost What It May” : The Humanist, 2; 1961.

 

Woodson, Thomas

Essay: “The Title and Text of Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’” : Bulletin of Research in the Humanities; Spring 1978.

 

Yamasaki, Tokihiko (3)

Essay: “The Right of Revolution in the Transcendental Abolitionism……(I)” : The Quarterly Journal of Law and Politics of Osaka City University, v.18, no.1.

Essay: “The Right of Revolution in the Transcendental Abolitionism……(II)” : The Quarterly Journal of Law and Politics of Osaka City University, v.18, no.2.

Essay: “Beyond Civil Disobedience?” : [The Quarterly Journal of Law and Politics of Osaka City University, 1971]

 

Box 3

 

 

Copies of “Civil Disobedience” (6)

Boonton, N.J. : Liberty Library, 1946. (published for The New York Thoreau Fellowship)

New York, N.Y. : American Book Co., 1960. (part of The University Reader)

Kyoto, [Japan] : Yamaguchi Shoten, 1966. (with introduction and notes by Toshihiko Ogata)

New York, N.Y. : A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, [n.d.] (part of Essay Series)

Santa Ana, CA : Freedom Newspapers Inc., [n.d.] (published with “Life Without Principles”)

[n.p.], England : Peace News Ltd., [n.d.] (published for Peace Pledge Union)

           

Excerpts from “Civil Disobedience” (6)             1940-1967      

Items appearing in textbooks, newspapers, and digests

Items sorted by publication date

 

Academic study, analysis, courses (12)             1958-1986      

Items such as textbooks with questions/discussion, rhetorical analyses, paper proposals

Items sorted chronologically

 

Publisher’s publicity and references (13)                        1944-1989

Items sorted chronologically

 

Resistance movements, non-violence, war tax (21)        1943-1985

Items sorted chronologically

 

Clippings (newspapers & magazines) [3 folders]

Items sorted chronologically into following time spans/folders: 1849-1959, 1960s

1970-1992

 

Misc (13)                                                                     1964-1990, n.d.

Items ranging from index cards with brief notes/quotes about Civil Disobedience to 1990 newspaper articles about Concord-Carlisle H.S. English Department protest of abridgement of essay in The United States in Literature

 

Aesthetic Papers (4)                                                    1849-1984

Reviews and commentary sorted chronologically

 

Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers [4 folders]

 

            Harvest House Edition (1)                                 [1963]

Copy of page proofs

           

Harvest House Edition (7)                                 1963

Correspondence between WH and publishers sorted chronologically

           

Harvest House Edition (7)                                 1963-1965

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            Analysis (2)

Salt, H.S. “Thoreau’s ‘Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers’” : Lippincott’s Magazine; August 1890. (WH notes “As usual with Salt, very good.”)

Erlich, Michael Glenn. “Selected Anti-Slavery Speeches of Henry David Thoreau. 1848-1859: A Rhetorical Analysis”, 1970.

 

Reform Papers (~12)                                                  1973-1977                              

Articles, publicity & reviews of Princeton Edition of The Reform Papers: The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau edited by Wendell Glick

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