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Copyright © 2008 The Walden Woods Project. For personal, educational or noncommercial use only.

What's New
 


 

Now available on-line for the first time:


Recent acquisitions:

  • Doyle, James, ed. Yankees in Canada: a collection of nineteenth-century travel narratives. Downsview, Ont.: ECW Press, c1980.
  • Parker, Everett L.
    • Beyond Moosehead II: the story of the great north woods of Maine from pre-history through the lumbering era. Greenville, ME: Moosehead Communications, c2001.
    • Kineo: Moosehead, sentinel from Native Americans to grand hotel. Greenville, ME: Moosehead Communications, c2004.
  • Roman, John. Mapping Thoreau's world: an artist's journal on making an illustrated map of historic Concord. John Roman, c2007.
  • Roustang, François. Jesuit missionaries to North America: spiritual writings and biographical sketches. Bennington, VT: Images fro the Past, c2007.
  • Thoreau, Henry David. Excursions. Foreword by Jeffrey S. Cramer. London: Anthem Press, 2007.

For holdings and more information, go to the Library catalog


Recent e-texts:


The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page: devoted to those quotations either misquoted or erroneously attributed to Henry D. Thoreau


From the Collections: A brief excerpt from the unfinished memoirs of Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson's editor, was published in "Remembering Rachel Carson: The Woman Who Would Not be Silent" by Julie Dunlap (Audubon Naturalist News, April/May 2007, p. 4).


Completion of the scanning of
 
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau

We are pleased to announce the completion of the scanning of all twenty volumes of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau published in 1906. This is the first searchable on-line version of Thoreau’s journal that provides the ability to cut-and-paste text as well as to save files to your own computer.

To search our on-line edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau over the Internet with your favorite search engine, put in the search term or phrase you wish to locate. To refine your search and reduce the number of extraneous hits, be sure to include in the search box the term writings1906 as one word with no space, or to search all of our on-line texts add the following site-specific search term site:www.walden.org/institute.


The Thoreau Institute Receives a
Robert Sargent Fay
Rendering of the 1856 Benjamin D. Maxham Daguerreotype
of Henry D. Thoreau

On 23 February 2007 the Thoreau Institute was presented with a rendering, by Robert Sargent  Fay, of the Benjamin D. Maxham daguerreotype of Thoreau given to Calvin H. Greene in 1856.  Based on a first-generation resin print of the original daguerreotype, this portrait was created and prepared in 2006 (150 years after the original daguerreotype was taken) for the Thoreau Institute’s Library. Robert Sargent Fay's photographs are held in the collections of Amherst College, the Currier Museum of Art, the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Mariposa Museum. He has created portfolios of photographs for the MacDowell Colony, the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Ken Burns and Florentine Films, and the Public Broadcasting System (Alexandria, Virginia). His Ocian in View! O! the Joy: A Collection of Photographs of the American West was published in 2006.



New: Photo gallery of all 208 Herbert Gleason photographs from the
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau published in 1906.