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Walter Harding (1917-1996)

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Books

  • Civilized Disobedience (Geneseo, NY: State University College, 1968)

  • The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 1836-1849 (Rutgers University, 1950: unpublished doctoral dissertation)

  • The Days of Henry Thoreau (New York: Knopf, 1966. 2nd edition, New York: Dover, 1982; reprinted, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992)

  • Henry David Thoreau's Walden and Civil Disobedience: A Study Guide (Bound Brook, NJ: Shelley, 1962)

  • The New Thoreau Handbook with Michael Meyer (New York: New York University Press, 1980)

  • A Thoreau Handbook (New York: New York University Press, 1959)

  • A Thoreau Iconography with Thomas Blanding (Geneseo, NY: Thoreau Society, 1980)

  • A Thoreau Profile with Milton Meltzer (New York: Crowell, 1962; reprinted, Concord: Thoreau Foundation, 1969)

Works Edited or Compiled

  • A Bibliography of Thoreau Society Bulletin Bibliographies, 1941-1969: A Cumulation and Index (Troy, NY: Whitston, 1971)

  • A Centennial Check-list of the Editions of Henry David Thoreau's Walden (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1954)

  • A Century of Criticism (Dallas: Southern University Methodist Press, 1954)

  • Alcott, Bronson. Essays on Education, 1830-1862, Together with the Town Reports for 1859-1861 and the School Reports for 1861-1862 of Concord, Massachusetts (Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimile & Reprints, 1960)

  • A Catalog of the Thoreau Society Archives in the Concord Free Public Library (Thoreau Society Booklet #29) (Geneseo, NY: The Thoreau Society, 1978)

  • Channing, William Ellery. The Collected Poems of William Ellery Channing, the Younger, 1817-1901 (Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimile & Reprints, 1967)

  • Ellis, Charles Mayo. An Essay on Transcendentalism (1842) (Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimile & Reprints, 1954; reprinted, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970)

  • Emerson's Library (Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of Virginia by the University of Virginia Press, 1967)

  • Henry David Thoreau: A Profile (New York: Hill & Wang, 1971)

  • Henry David Thoreau: Studies and Commentaries edited with George Brenner and Paul A. Doyle (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1972)

  • A Reference Index to Accompany Thoreau, Man of Concord (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961)

  • Sophia Thoreau's Scrapbook: From the Collection of George L. Davenport Jr. (Thoreau Society Booklet #20) (Genesco, NY: Thoreau Society, 1964)

  • Thoreau, Henry David

  • The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, with Carl Bode (New York: New York University Press, 1958)

  • In the Woods and Fields of Concord: Selections from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau (Salt Lake City: Smith, 1982)

  • Journal (New York: Dover, 1963) 

  • Journal (Salt lake City: Peregrine-Smith, 1984)

  • Mr. Thoreau Declines an Invitation: Two Unpublished Papers by Thoreau (Richmond: Attic Press, 1956)

  • The Selected Works of Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975)

  • Selections from the Journals (New York: Dover Publications, 1995)

  • Thoreau's Turtle Nest: From the Journal Notes of Henry David Thoreau (Worcester, MA: A.J. St. Onge, 1967)

  • The Variorum Civil Disobedience (New York: Twayne, 1967)

  • The Variorum Walden (New York: Twayne, 1962; reprinted, New York: Pocket Books, 1968; New York: Washington Square, 1971)

  • The Variorum Walden and Civil Disobedience (New York: Washington Square, 1968)

  • Walden: An Annotated Edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995)

  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1963)

  • Thoreau: A Century of Criticism (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1954)

  • Thoreau as Seen by his his Contemporaries (New York: Dover Publication, 1989)

  • The Thoreau Centennial: Papers Marking the Observance in New York City of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Henry David Thoreau (Thoreau Society Booklet # 21) (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1964)

  • The Thoreau Collectors’ Guide to Book Prices (Thoreau Society Booklet #26) (Geneseo, NY: Thoreau Society, 1971)

  • Thoreau, Man of Concord (New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1960)

  • The Thoreau Society Bulletin (Genesco, NY: Thoreau Society, 1941-1992)

  • Thoreau's Library (Thoreau Society Booklet #11) (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1957)

  • Thoreau's Minnesota Journey: Two Documents (Thoreau Society Booklet #16) (Genesco, NY: Thoreau Society, 1962; reprinted, New York: AMS Press, 1985)

Articles, Essays and Lectures

  •  “The Apple-Tree Table Talk” in The Boston Public Library Quarterly (VIII, October 1956, pp. 213-215.

  • “A Bee-Line with Thoreau” in Nature Outlook

  • “A Bibliographical Ghost” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #105

  • "A Bibliography of Thoreau in Music" in Studies in the American Renaissance (1992, pp 151-186)

  • “A Bibliography of Thoreau in Poetry, Fiction, and Drama” in Bulletin of Bibliography (XVIII, May-August 1943, pp. 15-18)

  • "Born Again Thoreauvians" [unpublished sermon preached at First Parish Church of Concord,  July 16, 1978]

  • “C.P. Snow and Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #70

  • “C.T. Jackson on Thoreau” in  Thoreau Society Bulletin #68

  • "A Calendar of the Correspondence of Henry D. Thoreau" with Carolyn Knappes, Randy F. Nelson, and Elizabeth Witherell, in Studies in the American Renaissance (1982, pp. 325-399)

  • “A Century of Thoreau” in Audubon Magazine (XLVII, March-April 1945, pp. 80-84)

  • “A Century of Walden” in Colorado Quarterly (III, Autumn 1954, pp. 186-199)

  • “A Check-list of Thoreau’s Lectures” in Bulletin of the New York Public Library (LII, February 1948, pp. 78-87)

  • “The Correspondence of Sophia Thoreau and Marianne Dunbar” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #33

  • “The Corruption of Walden” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #98

  • “Daniel Ricketson’s Copy of Walden” in The Harvard Library Bulletin (XV, October 1967, pp. 401-411)

  • “A Defense of Thoreau” in The Chicago Tribune (December 1, 1946; reprinted, slightly revised, in Yankee (XI, March 1947, pp. 26-27))

  • “’Delugeous’ or ‘Detergeous’” in CEAA Newsletter (I, March 1968, pp. 5-6; reprinted in Thoreau Society Bulletin #101)

  • “Did Thoreau Invent the Term ‘Civil Disobedience’” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #103

  • “Do Your Recognize Thoreau’s Style?” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #36

  • “An Early Thoreau Club” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #77

  • “Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism” in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (1963, pp. 3-16)

  • “Einstein on Gandhi and Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #45

  • “First Thoreau Edition Volumes to Printer” in Chronica (II, November 1968, pp. 8-11)

  • “Five Ways of Looking at Walden” in Massachusetts Review (IV, Autumn 1962, pp. 149-162; reprinted in Critical Essays on Henry David Thoreau's Walden (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988, pp. 85-95; Polish translation, “Walden, Piec Interpretacji,” in Tematy (II, Lato, 1963, pp. 129-145))

  • “Franklin B. Sanborn and Thoreau’s Letters” in The Boston Public Library Quarterly (III, October 1951, pp. 288-293)

  • “Frederick Tudor and Walden Woods” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #105

  • “Gandhi and Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #23

  • “Gene Tunney on Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #31

  • “A Gift from Walden Woods” in Home Garden (December 1967, pp. 29-36)

  • “The Grave of Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #69

  • “Harvard Statutes and Laws: Some Footnotes on Thoreau’s College Days” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #34

  • “Henry D. Thoreau” in National Wildlife (V, December 1966, pp. 38-39)

  • “Henry D. Thoreau, Instructors” in Educational Forum (XXIX, November 1964, pp. 89-97)

  • "Henry David Thoreau" in The American Renaissance in New England (Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 1) edited by Joel Myerson (Detroit: Gale, 1978, pp. 170-182) 

  • “Henry David Thoreau: A Checklist of His Correspondence” with Carl Bode, in The New York Public Library Bulletin (LIX, May 1955, pp. 227-252)

  • “Henry David Thoreau, Philologist” in Word Study (XIX #4, 1944, p. 7)

  • “Henry David Thoreau: Walden, or, Life in the Woods” in Landmarks of American Writing, edited by Hennig Cohen (New York: Basic Books, 1969, pp. 134-143)

  • “Henry Thoreau and Ellen Sewall” in The South Atlantic Quarterly (LXIV, Winter 1965, pp.100-109; Japanese translation in Shi To Sambun (XIII, April 1966, pp. 108-115)

  • “Henry Thoreau, Ghost Writer” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #38

  • “Henry Thoreau, Our American Saint Francis” in Our Dumb Animals (LXXVI, May 1943, p. 93)

  • "Horace Greeley on Thoreau: A Forgotten Portrait" in Thoreau Society Bulletin #116

  • “Hound, Bay Horse, and Turtledove” in Literary Symbolism, edited by Maurice Beebe (San Francisco: Wadsworth, 1960, pp. 59-62)

  • "An Index to the First 100 Thoreau Society Bulletins" (Thoreau Society Booklet #22) (Geneseo, NY: Thoreau Society, 1968)

  • "The Influence of Civil Disobedience" (The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers) (Utah State University Pres, 1963) / “La Influencia de ‘Disobediencia Civil’” (translated into Spanish by V. Munoz) in Reconstruir (XXXIX, December 1965, pp. 41-50)

  • "The Influence of Thoreau's Lecturing on his Writings" [unpublished lecture]

  • "Introduction" to Roland Robbins' Discovery at Walden.

  • “Jack London and Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #57

  • “A Late Revision in Thoreau’s Walden” in Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia Secretary’s News Sheet (#25, November 1952)

  • Lecture Given Before the Grolier Club, February 16, 1954  [unpublished lecture]

  • Letter to the editor in The New York Herald Tribune (8 June 1945)

  • Letter to the editor in The New York Sun (27 April 1945)

  • Letter to the editor in The New York Times (15 October 1972)

  • "Live Your Own Life" in Geneseo Summer Compass (4 June 1984)

  • "Margaret Fuller" in Encyclopedia Americana (1973 ed, XII, p. 156) 

  • "A New Checklist of the Books in Henry David Thoreau's Library" in Studies in the American Renaissance (1983, pp. 151-186)

  • “A New Edition of Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #97

  • "A New Hampshire Concordian Looks at Thoreau's Week."  [unpublished typescript, 1974]

  • “A New Sophia Thoreau Letter” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #87

  • “On Teaching Walden” in The Emerson Society Quarterly (XVIII, 1960, pp. 11-12)

  • "Parker Pillsbury, the Walden Cabin, and the Underground Railroad" in Thoreau Society Bulletin #198

  • “A Preliminary Checklist of the Editions of Walden” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #39

  • “Recent Scholarship on Emerson and Thoreau” in The Teacher and American Literature, edited by Lewis Leary (Champaign, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1965, pp. 81-88)

  • Review: The Roman Years of Margaret Fuller by Joseph Jay Deiss, in Library Journal (84, August 1969, p. 2777)

  • Review, unsigned: Thoreau’s Minnesota Journey, in Minnesota History (September 1963)

  • “The Significance of Thoreau’s Walden” in The Humanist (V, Autumn 1945, pp. 115-121)

  • “Some Forgotten Reviews of Walden” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #46

  • “Some Unfamiliar Glimpses of Thoreau” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #69

  • “A Source for a Walden Anecdote” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #87  

  • "Theo Brown and Henry Thoreau" (Thoreau Society Booklet #23) (Rochester, NY: Gaudeamus Press, 1968)

  • “This is a Beautiful World” in American Heritage (XIV, December 1962, pp.106-112)

  • “Thoreau” in The Word (VIII, October 1946, pp. 21; reprinted in The Beacon, January 1947))

  • “Thoreau and Bird Songs Celestial” in Audubon Magazine (XLVI, July1944, pp. 234-236)

  • “Thoreau and the Concord Lyceum” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #30

  • “Thoreau and ‘Ecology’ Correction” in Science (CXLIX, August 13, 1965, p. 707)

  • “Thoreau and Horace Greeley” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #11

  • “Thoreau and the Kalmucks: A Newly Discovered Manuscript” in New England Quarterly (XXXII, March 1959, pp. 91-92; Spanish translation, Thoreau y Los Calmucos,” in Voluntad (IV, September 1959, p. 4)

  • “Thoreau and Kate Brady” in American Literature (XXXVI, November 1964, pp. 347-349)

  • “Thoreau and Mann on the Minnesota River,  June, 1861” in Minnesota History (XXXVII, June 1961, pp. 225-228)

  • “Thoreau and the Negro” in Negro History Bulletin (October 1946; Spanish translation, “Thoreau y Los Negros,” in Voluntad, III, March 1959, p. 32; Japanese translation in Shi To Sambun, XVII, May 1968, pp, 47-50)

  • “Thoreau and the ‘Seven Years Itch’” in American Speech (XXIX, October 1954, p. 237)

  • “Thoreau and Timothy Dwight” in The Boston Public Library Quarterly (X, April 1958, pp. 109-115)

  • “Thoreau and the Worcester Ministers” in Nature Outlook (IX, Spring 1951, pp. 12-14 passim)

  • "Thoreau as an Artist" in Henry David Thoreau as a source for artistic inspiration : DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, June 6-September 9, 1984 / catalogue by Francine Amy Koslow ; with an essay and chronology by Walter Harding (Lincoln, MA: The Museum, 1984)

  • “Thoreau as Seen by Frederika Bremer” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #54

  • “Thoreau at the Boston Music Hall” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #105

  • “Thoreau at Fire Island” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #41

  • “Thoreau at Harvard” in Harvard Alumni Bulletin (LXVI, March 21, 1964, pp. 468-473)

  • “Thoreau at Walden” in Bulletin of the English Literature Society of Hiroshima Jogakuin College (IX, 1965, pp. 1-10)

  • “Thoreau Attends Quaker Meeting” in Friends Intelligencer (CI, May 6, 1944, pp.298-299)

  • "Thoreau, Emerson, and Transcendentalism" in American Literary Scholarship (1965)

  • "A Thoreau Iconography" with Thomas Blanding, in Studies in the American Renaissance (1980, pp. 1-35; reprinted as Thoreau Society Booklet #30, 1980)

  • “Thoreau in Japan” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #90

  • “Thoreau in the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #73

  • “Thoreau on the Concord Muster, 1859” in The Month at Goodspeeds (XXXIX, April 1968, p. 171)

  • “Thoreau on the Lecture Platform” in New England Quarterly (XXIV, September 1951, pp. 365-374)

  • “Thoreau, Pioneer of Civil Disobedience” in Fellowship (XII, July 1946, pp. 118-119 passim)

  • “Thoreau: The Camper in the Back Yard” in Horizon (VI, Autumn 1964, pp. 298-299)

  • “Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’” in The Compass (February 1943, pp. 13-14 passim)

  • "Thoreau's Diploma" (Thoreau Society Booklet #5) (New Brunswick, NJ: Thoreau Society, 1948)

  • “Thoreau’s Fame Abroad” in The Boston Public Library Quarterly (IX, April 1959, pp. 94-101)

  • “Thoreau’s Feminine Foe” in PMLA (LXIX, March 1954, pp.110-116)

  • “The Thoreau’s in the 1850 and 1860 Censuses” in Thoreau Research Newsletter (no. 1, April 1990, p. 8)

  • “Thoreau’s Professor Has His Say” in Thoreau Society Bulletin #46

  • "Thoreau's Reputation" in The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau, edited by Joel Myerson (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. pp. 1-11)

  • "Thoreau's Sexuality" in Journal of Homosexuality (21, 1991, pp. 23-45)

  • “A Thoreauvian in Europe” in International Educational and Cultural Exchange (IV, Summer 1968, pp. 1-5)

  • “A Thoreauvian in Japan” in International Educational and Cultural Exchange (Fall 1965, pp. 20-24)

  • “Two F.B. Sanborn Letters” in American Literature (XXV, May 1953, pp. 230-234)

  • "Two Forgotten Bits of Thoreauviana" (Thoreau Society Booklet #14) (Geneseo, NY: Thoreau Society, 1959)

  • “Uncle Charlie Comes to Concord” in Nature Outlook (VII, Fall 1948, pp. 7-9

  • "Visit to Wachusett, July 1842 by Richard Fuller" in Thoreau Society Bulletin #121

  • “Walden: Experiment in Freedom” (translated into Yiddish by Herman Frank) in Freie Arbeiter Stimme (June 29, 1945)

  • “Walden’s Philosopher as a Tutor of Children” in The Christian Science Monitor (June 30, 1966)

 

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