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The Thoreau
Institute at Walden Woods Library
The Raymond
Adams Collection in the
Thoreau Society Collections
Raymond Adams
(1898-1987)
Adams Houses, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
The Raymond Adams
Collection forms an excellent core of first editions, volumes from
Thoreau’s own library, several Thoreau manuscripts, correspondence
from Thoreau’s acquaintances to early biographers, and the Thoreau
collection of Thoreau biographer, H. S. Salt.
Raymond Adams was the first
president of the Thoreau Society in 1941, serving fourteen
successive terms through 1955. He taught at the University of North
Carolina from 1920 until his retirement in 1968.
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