Texts and Links about Thoreau's life and writings, including his contemporaries,
his readings, current scholarship and other related documents

Brief Chronology
Brief Overviews:

• Thoreau, the Man
• Thoreau as a Writer
• Thoreau's Writings
• Civil Disobedience
• Walden, The Place
• Thoreau and the Environment
• For Further Reading: A Select Bibliography

Obituaries

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• Abbott, Charles Conrad (1843-1919)
  • Thoreau (from Notes of the Night, and Other Outdoor Sketches)
• Adams, Raymond (1898-1987)
• Æsthetic Papers
  • Æsthetic Papers (coming soon)
  • Gohdes, Clarence L.F. "Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers"  
• Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888)
• Angelo, Ray
  • LINK⇒ Botanical Index to the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau 
• Art 
  • Watson, Amelia Montague (1856-1934)
• The Atlantic Monthly 
   
• Blake, Harrison Gray Otis (1816-1898)
• The Boatswain's Whistle
  • Looming of the Sun, an excerpt from Cape Cod (18 November 1864)
     
• Channing, William Ellery (1817-1901)
  • Walks with Ellery Channing (The Atlantic Monthly, July 1902)
• Childs, Christopher
  • Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
• Clark, Jill Morgan
  • Henry David Thoreau: The Darwinian Naturalist (A Project Submitted in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Liberal Studies, Rollins College, 2005)
• Cooke, George Willis (1848-1923)
  • The Two Thoreaus (The Independent, 10 December 1896)
• Cranch, Christopher Pearse (1813-1892)
  • Correspondences (The Dial, January 1841)
     
• Dawes, Lewis C. (1863-1936)
•  Dean, Bradley P.
  • Thoreau's Lecturing Activities
• The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
• Drake, William
  • Spiritual Ideals and Scientific Facts: Thoreau's Search for Reality
     
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
   
• Fleck, Richard F.
• Frothingham, Octavius Brooks (1822-1895)
  • Transcendentalism in New England (from Transcendentalism in New England: A History)
• Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850)
• Fuller, Richard Frederick (1824-1869) 
  • The Younger Generation in 1840 (The Atlantic Monthly, August 1923) 
     
• Gleason, Herbert Wendell (1855-1937)
• Gohdes, Clarence L.F. (1901-1997)
  • Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers (from The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism)
     
• Harding, Walter (1917-1996)
• Hoag, Ronald Wesley
  • Thoreau's Lecturing Activities
• Hosmer, Gladys Eleanor Holden (1887?-1970)
  • Remarks on Thoreau, Concord, and Walden
     
• Indians 
  • Fleck, Richard F.
    • Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians (Archon Books, 1985; with errata and addendum, 2009)
  • Thoreau, Henry D.
    • Selections from the "Indian Notebooks" (1847-1861) of Henry D. Thoreau, Transcribed, with an Introduction and additional material, by Richard F. Fleck
       
• Japp, A.H. (1839-1905)
• Langton, Jane
  • Two Uncollected Talks — The Uses of New England Ecstasy • The War in Vietnam, the First Parish in Lincoln, Me, and Henry Thoreau
     
• McCurdy, Michael
  • Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau
• Metzger, Charles R.
  • LINK⇒ Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics (University of Washington Press, 1961) 
     
• Photography
  • Gleason, Herbert Wendell (1855-1937)
  • Hosmer, Alfred Winslow (1851-1903)
     
• Quincy, Josiah (1772-1864)
   
• Robbins, Roland Wells (1908-1987)
• Rose, Edward J.
  • "A World with Full and Fair Proportions": The Aesthetics and the Politics of Vision
     
• Salt, Henry S. (1851-1939)
  • Thoreau in Twenty Volumes (Fortnightly Review in The Living Age (18 July 1908)) 
• Sattelmeyer, Robert
• Schofield, Edmund A.
• Seybold, Ethel (1910-2005)
  • LINK⇒ Thoreau: The Quest and the Classics (Yale University Press, 1951)
• Shanley, J. Lyndon (1910-1996)
  • Transcription of the First Version of Walden
• Sherwood, Mary (1906-2001)
• Stearns, Frank Preston (1846-1917)
  • Sketches from Concord and Appledore: An Excerpt
     
• Taylor, J. Golden
  • Thoreau and the Integrity of the Individual
• Thomas, W. Stephen
• The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
• Thoreau's Contemporaries
• Thoreau's Sources
• Torrey, Bradford (1843-1912)
  • Thoreau as a Diarist (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1905)
  • Thoreau's Attitude Toward Nature (The Atlantic Monthly, November 1899)
• Transcendentalism 
   
• Van Doren, Mark (1894-1972)
• Very, Jones (1813-1880)
  • Poems
    • The Evening Choir (The Dial, July 1842)
    • The World (The Dial, July 1842)
       
•  The Walden Woods Project
• Watson, Amelia Montague (1856-1934)
• The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers
• Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)
  • LINK⇒ Metzger, Charles R. Thoreau and Whitman: A Study of Their Esthetics (University of Washington Press, 1961)
• Wilkinson, James John Garth (1812-1899)
  • LINK⇒ The Human Body and Its Connection with Man (Lippincott & Brambo, 1851)