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J. Lyndon Shanley (1910-1996)

J. Lyndon Shanley's Transcription of the First Version of Walden

Source:
The Making of
Walden with the Text of the First Version by J. Lyndon Shanley
(Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957)

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Reprinted courtesy of the University of Chicago Press
© 1957 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.


J. Lyndon Shanley's transcription is based upon the holograph manuscript, Huntington Manuscript 924, which includes portions of the first version of Walden written in 1846-1847. For more information on the Walden manuscripts, contact the Manuscript Department of the Huntington Library:

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