The Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods Library
2008 (Vol. 4, no. 1)
In This Issue Thoreau's Reading A Collaborative Digitization Project The Emerson Society Collections Some Recently Cataloged Items
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Thoreau Quotations
I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves - [HDT to H.G.O. Blake, 21 May 1856]For more quotations, visit the Thoreau Quotations Page
Now available on-line for the first time:
A Study in Intellectual History
with bibliographical catalogue
by Robert Sattelmeyer
A digital edition presented as a coöperative project of the Thoreau Institute and Princeton University Press.
Recent e-texts:
Fuller, Richard. "The Younger Generation in 1840"
Coming soon:
Clapper, Roland. The Development of Walden: A Genetic Text [Dissertation, Ph.D., UCLA, 1967]
Clark, Jill Morgan. Henry David Thoreau: The Darwinian Naturalist [Thesis, MA, Rollins College, 2005]
The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy and Religion
Available at the Thoreau's Life & Writings Webpage
An Evening with
E.L. Doctorow
Photo: Nancy CramptonPresented by the Walden Woods Project in conjunction with the Concord Festival of AuthorsTuesday, May 20th, at 7:30 P.M.
A Collaborative Digitization Project
A Note from Wes Mott
The Collections housed at the Thoreau Institute contain more than books and other paper documents. Included are hundreds of interviews, films, lectures, and readings on a variety of media: audio and video cassette tapes, vinyl records, films of various sizes, microfilm, BetaMax, pneumatic tape. Many of these items are inaccessible to users because of the obsolescence of the technology on which they were designed to play, and several are suffering the inevitable deterioration of time.
Two students from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), William House and Keith Murphy, are researching how to safely, efficiently, and cost effectively convert these media to digital formats that will preserve these collections and make them usable for future generations without specialized equipment. Under the supervision of Jeff Cramer, Will and Keith are in the process of digitizing some of the objects, and in a report this spring they will recommend further measures to continue the transfer process.
Their academic project advisors are Wes Mott, professor of English at WPI and member of the Boards of the Thoreau Society and the Walden Woods Project, and Rodney Obien, Curator of Special Collections & Archives at WPI.
The Emerson Society CollectionsThe Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute Library has become the repository for The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Archives. Published by Harvard University Press, the Collected Works is an on-going definitive edition of Emerson's writings.
The first deposit, made by Ronald A. Bosco, General Editor of the Collected Works, consists of the working papers for the volume: Society and Solitude. It also includes nineteenth-century printings of Emerson's works that belonged to previous General editors of the Collected Works and books of modern scholarly and editorial treatments of Emerson that were owned by the late Douglas Emory Wilson, Dr. Bosco's predecessor.
Some Recently Cataloged Items
For more information about these and other titles,
go to Thoreau Institute Library Catalog
"I have sometimes imagined a library, i.e. a collection of the works of true poets, philosophers, naturalists, etc., deposited not in a brick and marble edifice in a crowded and dusty city ... but rather far away in the depths of the primitve forest ... " - Henry D. Thoreau, 3 February 1852
The Thoreau Institute Library collects research materials relating to Henry D. Thoreau (1817-1862), his historical context, and his contemporary relevance to environmental and human-rights issues. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods is owned and managed by the Walden Woods Project.
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