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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)

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: The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
 


 

 

Site of Thoreau's house at Walden Pond (Photographer: Herbert Gleason, from Through the Year With Thoreau, 1917)

The only danger in Friendship is that it will end. — A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

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