Of Interest
The Walter Harding Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections

 
Walter Harding (1917-1996)
Walter Harding,   from a photograph in the Walter Harding Collection
  

Widely acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on Thoreau, the collection of Thoreauviana built by the late Professor Harding consists of first editions and manuscripts, thousands of articles and pamphlets, art, records, microfilm and extensive correspondence from leading Thoreau scholars. It is recognized as the world’s most comprehensive research collection on Henry D. Thoreau.
Thoreau from a bas-relief by Walton Ricketson, used by Walter Harding as a bookplate

 

 

 

 

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What you call bareness and poverty is to me simplicity. — Journal, 5 December 1856

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