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The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Archives

A Guide to the Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Collection

2 Manuscript boxes 

Processor: Lee Davis

Date:   December 2005

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Biography:[i]

Merton M. Sealts, Jr. was the Henry A. Pochmann Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  He was a highly regarded scholar of American Literature, specifically on the works of Herman Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Born on December 8, 1915, in Lima, Ohio, he was the son of Merton Miller (a wholesale grocer) and Daisy (Hathaway) Sealts; married Ruth Louise Mackenzie, November 17, 1942.

Career:

University of Missouri, Columbia, instructor in English, 1941-42; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, instructor in English, 1946-48; Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, assistant professor, 1948-51, associate professor, 1951-58, professor of English, 1958-65; University of Wisconsin, Madison, professor of English, beginning 1965.

Award(s):

Ford Foundation Fund for the Advancement of Education fellowship, 1953-54; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship, 1962-63; Edward and Rosa Uhring Memorial Award for excellent teaching, 1965; American Council of Learned Societies grant-in-aid, 1970; National Endowment for the Humanities senior fellowship, 1975.

Written Works:

1.  Melville as Lecturer, Harvard University Press, 1957.

2.  (Editor with Harrison Hayford) Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor, University of Chicago Press, 1962.

3.  (Editor) The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Belknap Press, Volume V, 1965, Volume X, 1973.

4.  Melville's Reading: A Check-List of Books Owned and Borrowed, University of Wisconsin Press, 1966, revised and enlarged, University of South Carolina Press, (Columbia, SC), 1988.

5.  (Contributor) Max F. Schulz, editor, Essays in American and English Literature   Presented
             to Bruce Robert McElderry, Jr., Ohio University Press, 1967.

6.   (Editor with Alfred R. Ferguson) Emerson's "Nature": Origin, Growth, Meaning, Dodd, 1969, 2nd edition, Southern Illinois University Press, (Carbondale, IL), 1979.

7.   (Contributor) Ray B. Browne and Donald Pizer, editors, Themes and Directions in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Leon Howard, Purdue University Studies, 1969.

8.  Pursuing Melville, 1940-1980: Chapters and Essays, University of Wisconsin Press, (Madison, WI), 1982.

9.  The Early Lives of Melville: Nineteenth-Century Biographical Sketches and Their Authors, University of Wisconsin Press, 1974.

10.  Emerson on the Scholar, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia, MO), 1992.

11.  Beyond the Classroom: Essays on American Authors, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia, MO), 1996.

 12.  Closing the Books: A Memoir of an Academic Career, Vantage Press, (New York, NY), 1999. 

Scope and Content:

The Merton M. Sealts, Jr. Archive contains Sealt’s personal collection of scholarly publications, articles and news clippings devoted to the study of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Transcendentalism.  Also housed here are issues of the Thoreau Society’s Booklets and Bulletins.  The dates of the archive range from 1917 - 1999.

Organization:

The Archive is organized into the following series:

I.          Research Tools for Ralph W. Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau Scholarship.    

II.          Thoreau Society Publications and Various Off-prints of Scholarly Articles

                        A.  Thoreau Society Booklets

                        B.  Thoreau Society Bulletins

                        C.  Various Scholarly Articles

                        D.  Entire Journals

III.         Book Reviews

IV.        Publisher’s Advertisements

V.        Miscellaneous items

Box & Folder List

Coding: The first number indicates the Box number and the second number following the colon indicates Folder number (i.e., 1:4 refers to Box 1, Folder 4).

I.  Research Tools for Ralph W. Emerson and Henry D. Thoreau Scholarship.

A.  Research Tools Concerning Emerson:

1. Anonymous.  “Analysis of Contents: The Journals and Miscellaneous

Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson. [1:1]

2.  Anonymous.  Print-out of the Grey-Preston Concordance of Emerson’s

Writings. [1:2]

3.  Anonymous.  Print-out of concordance on nature in Emerson’s writings. Part

1. [1:3]

4.  Anonymous.  Print-out of concordance on nature in Emerson’s writings, Part

2. [1:4]

5.  Bryer, Jackson R. and Rees, Robert A.  “A Checklist of Emerson Criticism

(1951-1961), with a Detailed Index.  Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 37 (IV Quarter 1964).  2 copies. [1:5 - 6]

6.  Misc. notes found with “A Checklist of Emerson Criticism (1951-1961), with

a Detailed Index.”  Bibliographical Supplement: Emerson.  Fragment from Eight American Authors, p. 424 - 428. [1:7]

7.  Cameron, Kenneth Walter.  Index-Concordance to the 1836 and 1849 text

[Emerson, Nature].” [1:8]

8.  Cameron, Kenneth Walter.  Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Reading. Reprinted in

Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 28 (1962). [1:9]

            9.  Misc. items found within Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Reading. [1:10]

                        a. Legal sized envelop addressed to Merton Sealts.

                        b. “Emerson’s Early Reading List, 1819-1824.”  Transcribed with an

Introduction by Kenneth Walter Cameron.

                        c. “The Emerson Industry in the 1980’s: A Survey of Trends and

Achievements,” by Lawrence Buell.  ESQ, Volume 30 (2nd

Quarter 1984).

9.  Emerson, Ralph Waldo.  “Xerox Prints: Journal B (in part).” [1:11]

10.  Emerson, Ralph Waldo.  “JMN, V: Xerox Prints: Journal C.” [1:12]

11.  Gilman, William H.  “A Manual for the Editing of The Journals and

Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson.”  Second Revised Edition (1967). [1:13]

11.  Wahr, Frederick B.  “Emerson and Goethe: Emerson and the Germans.” 

Doctoral Thesis. [1:14]

            12.  Misc. notes found with “Emerson and Goethe: Emerson and the Germans.”

[1:15]

a.  Note card with a Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotation to Charles Godfrey

Leland.

                        b.  Leaf of paper, with citation for Joel Porte’s, “Emerson, Thoreau, and

the Double Consciousness.”  NEQ, 41 (March 1968), p.40-50.

                        c.  Publisher’s advertisement for Peter Salm’s, The Poem as Plant.

B.  Research Tools Concerning Thoreau:

1.  Anonymous.  Note cards (3 x 5”, 24 cards total).  Notes relating to scholarly

research on Thoreau’s Walden. [1:16]

2.  Thoreau, Henry David.  “The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.”  Princeton

University Press.  Grant proposal (1981-1984). [1:17]

3.  Biographical Supplement: Thoreau.  Eight American Authors (Fragment). 

[1:18]

II.  Thoreau Society Publications and Various Scholarly Articles

A.  Publications: Thoreau Society Booklets [2:1]

1.  Booklet 18 (1962) “Centennial Exhibition,” Wayne State University Libraries.

            a.  Wayne State University Program for Centennial Exhibition.

2.  Booklet 20 (1964) “Sophia Thoreau’s Scrapbook.”

3.  Booklet 22 (1968) “An Index to the First 100 Thoreau Society Bulletins”

4.  Booklet 23  (1968) “Theo Brown and Henry Thoreau”

5.  Booklet 24 “Thoreau In the Spanish Language: A Bibliography,” by Justo

Garate.

6.  Booklet 25 (1970) “Thoreau’s Easterbrook Country, Concord Massachusetts,”

A Survey.

7.  Booklet 26 (1971) “Thoreau Collectors’ Guide to Book Prices”

8.  Booklet 27 (1973) “Thoreau’s Rivers, Cocord, Massachusetts,” A Survey.

9.  Booklet 28 (1976) “A Catalog of Thoreau’s Surveys in the Concord Free

Public Library,” Edited by Marcia Moss.

10.  Booklet 29 (1978) “A Catalog of the Thoreau Society Archives in the

Concord Free Public Library,” Edited by Walter Harding.

11. Booklet 30 (1980) “A Thoreau Iconography,” by Thomas Blanding and

Walter Harding.

12. Booklet 31 (1981) “The Fred Hosmer Copy of a Dunshee Ambrotype of

Thoreau.”

B.  Publications: Thoreau Society Bulletin, issues 80 (Winter 1963) - 203 (Spring 1993)

            1.  Thoreau Society Bulletin, issues 80 - 109 (Summer 1962 - Fall 1969) [2:2]

            2.  Thoreau Society Bulletin, issues 110 - 149 (Winter 1970 - Fall 1979) [2:3]

            3.  Thoreau Society Bulletin, issues 150 - 189 (Winter 1980 - Fall 1989) [2:4]

            4. Thoreau Society Bulletin, issues 190 - 203 (Winter 1990 - Spring 1993) [2:5]

            5.  A Membership Directory for the Thoreau Society (January, 1960) [2:6]

C.  Publications: Various Scholarly Journal Articles.

[2:7]

1.  Adams, Raymond.  “Thoreau At Harvard: Some Unpublished Records,” The

New England Quarterly, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (1940).

2.  Adkins, Nelson F.  “Emerson and the Bardic Tradition,” PMLA (Publications

of the Modern Language Association of America), Vol. LXIII, No. 2, part 1 (June 1948).

3.  Adkins, Nelson F. “Emerson’s ‘Days’ and Edward Young,” Modern Language

Notes (April 1948).

[2:8]

4.  Bode, Carl.  “Thoreau the Actor.”  Excerpt from American Quarterly under

Notes.

5.  Boies, J.J.  “Circular Imagery in Thoreau’s Week.”  Excerpt from College

English.

6.  Bush Jr., Sargent. “The End and Means in Walden: Thoreau’s Use of the

Catechism,” Emerson Society Quarterly, V.31 (1st Quarter 1985).

[2:9]

7.  Carpenter, Frederic I.  “Points of Comparison Between Emerson and WM.

James,” The New England Quarterly, Vol. II, No. 3 (1929).

8.  Carpenter, Frederic I. “William James and Emerson,” American Literature,

Vol. 2, No. 1 (March 1939).

9.  Carpenter, Hazen C.  “Emerson at West Point,” Education (September 1950).

10.  Carpenter, Hazen C.  “Emerson, Eliot, and the Elective System,” The New

England Quarterly, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (March 1951).

11.  Carpenter, Hazen C.  “Emerson and Christopher Pearse Cranch,” The New

England Quarterly, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1 (March 1964).

12.  Channing, Tyrell.  “Literary Independence,” The Key Reporter, Vol. XXVI,

No. 3 (Spring 1961)

[2:10]

13.  Duban, James. “Conscience and Consciousness: The Liberal Christian

Context of Thoreau’s Political Ethics,” The New England Quarterly, Vol.

LX No. 2 (June 1987).

14.  Duban, James.  “Notes: Thoreau, Garrison, and Dymond: Unbending

Firmness of the Mind,” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography.

[2:11]

15.  Edrich, Mary Worden.  “The Rhetoric of Apostasy,” The Texas Studies In

Literature and Language, A Journal of the Humanities, Vol. VIII, No. 4 (Winter 1967).

[2:12]

16.  Falk, Robert.  “Emerson and Shakespeare,” PMLA, V. LVI No. 2 (June,

1941).

17.  Faust, C. H.  “The Background of the Unitarian Opposition to

Transcendentalism,” Modern Philology, Vol. 35, No. 3 (February 1938).

18.  Flanagan, John T.  “Emerson as a Critic of Fiction,” Philological Quarterly,

Vol. XV, No. 1 (January 1936).

[2:13]

19.  Foerster, Norman. “The Intellectual Heritage of Thoreau,” The Texas Review,

V. II, No. 3 (Jan 1917). 

[2:14]

20.  Gohdes, Clarence.  “A Gossip on Emerson’s Treatment of Beauty,” The Open

Court, Vol. 45, No. 900 (May 1931).

21.  Gohdes, Clarence.  “Some Remarks on Emerson’s Divinity School Address,”

American Literature, Vol. 1, No. 1 (March, 1929).

[2:15]

22.  Hotson, Clarence.  “Christian Critics and Mr. Emerson,” New England

Quarterly, Vol. 11 (March 1938).

23.  Howarth, William, L.  “Henry Thoreau’s Journal,” Princeton Alumni Weekly

(Sep 8 1980)

24.  Howarth, William, and Grehan, Farrell.  “Thoreau, a Different Man,” (p.

349).  National Geographic, Volume 159, No. 3 (March 1981).

25.  Hyman, Stanley Edgar.  “Henry Thoreau in Our Time,” Atlantic Monthly, Vol

178 (Nov 1946).

[2:16]

26.  Jorgenson, Chester Eugene.  “Emerson’s Paradise Under the Shadow of

Swords,” Philological Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 3 (July 1932). 

a.  Personal letter from Jorgenson to Mr. Pochmann.

[2:17]

27.  Ladu, Aurthur I.  “Emerson: Whig or Democrat,”  The New England

Quarterly, V. XIII, No. 3 (Sept. 1940).

28.  Lane Jr., Lauriate.  “Thoreau at Work: Four Versions of ‘A Walk to

Wachusett’,”  Bulletin of the New York Public Library, No. 69 (January 1965).

29.  Leary, Lewis.  “Thoreau,” Eight American Authors.

30.  Lockwood, Francis Cummins.  “Emerson as a Philospher, A Thesis,”

Presented to the Northwestern University, 1896.

31.  Lorsch, Fred.  “Thoreau and the Organic Principle in Poetry,” PMLA, Vol.

LIII, No. 1 (March 1938).

[2:18]

32.  Marckwardt, Albert H.  “The American Scholar: Two Views,” Papers of the

Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Vol. XVIII (1932/ published 1933).

33.  Martin, John S.  “The ‘Mirage’ of the Sublime in Walden,” Thoreau Journal

Quarterly, Vol. VIII No. 1 (January 1976).

34.  McDowell, Tremaine.  “A Freshman Poem by Emerson,” PMLA, Vol. 45,

No. 1 (March 1930).

35.  Miller, Perry.  “The Romantic Dilemma in American Nationalism and the

Concept of Nature,” Harvard Theological Review, Vol. XLVIII, No. 4 (October 1955).

36.  Mott, Frank Luther.  “The Christian Disciple and the Christian Examiner,”

The New England Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3 (April 1928).

[2:19]

37.  Myerson, Joel.  “More Apropos of John Thoreau,” American Literature, Vol.

45, No. 1 (March, 1973).

38.  Myerson, Joel.  “Ralph Waldo Emerson,” Prospects for the Study of

American Literature: A Guide for Scholars and Students,  Edited by Richard Kopley. New York: New York University Press, 1997.

[2:20]

39.  Neufeldt, Leonard.  “Pretextus as Text: Editor-Critic Responses to Thoreau’s

Journal,” Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4 (Winter 1990).

[2:21]

40.  Peckham, Morse.  “Toward a Theory of Romanticism,” PMLA, Vol. 66

(March 1951).

41.  Pochmann, Henry A.  “Emerson Canon,” University of Toronto Quarterly,

Vol. XII, No. 4 (July 1943).

            42.  Pops, Martin L.  “An Analysis of Thoreau’s Cape Cod,” Bulletin of the New

                        York Public Library (Sept 1963).

[2:22]

43.  Richardson, Lyon.  “What Rutherford B. Hays Liked In Emerson,” American

Literature, Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 1945).

44.  Robinson, David M.  “’Unchronicled Nations’: Agrarian Purpose and

Thoreau’s Ecological Knowing,” Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Dec 1993).

45. Ross Jr, Donald.  “Verbal Wit and Walden,” American Transcendental

Quarterly Vol. 11, no. 3 (Summer 1971).

[2:23]

46.  Schulz, Deiter.  “Emerson’s Visionary Moments: The Disintegration of the

Sublime,”  American Studies/ Amerika Studien, Vo. 28, No. 1 (1983).

[2:24]

47.  Scudder III, Townsend.  “A Chronological List of Emerson’s Lectures on his

British Lecture Tour of 1847-1848,” PMLA, Vol. 51, No. 1 (March 1936).

48.  Scudder III, Townsend “Emerson in London and the London Lectures,”

American Literature, Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 1936).

49.  Scudder III, Townsend.  “Emerson’s British Lecture Tour, 1847-1848, PART

1,” American Literature, Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 1935).

50.  Scudder III, Townsend.  “Emerson’s British Lecture Tour, 1847-1848, PART

II,” American Literature, Vol. 7, No. 2 (May 1935).

[2:25]

51.  Sealts, Merton M.  “Emerson on the Scholar, 1833-1837,” PMLA, Volume

85, No. 2, (March 1970).   2 copies, both incomplete.

52.  Sealts, Merton M. “Melville and Emerson’s Rainbow,” Emerson Society

Quarterly (2nd Quarter 1980).  4 copies.

[2:26]

53.  Smart, George K.  “A Note on ‘Emerson and Communism’,” New England

Quarterly, Vol. X, No. 4 (1937).  Incomplete.

54.  Smith, Herbert.  “Thoreau among the Classical Economists,” Emerson

Society Quarterly, Volume 23, 2nd Quarter (1977).

55.  Southworth, James G.  “Thoreau, Moralist of the Picturesque,” Comment and

Criticism, (Cited from PMLA, XLVII, No. 3 [Sept., 1932] 864-889).

56.  Spence, Robert.  “D.A. Wasson, Forgotten Transcendentalist,” American

Literature, Vol. 27, No. 1 (March 1955).

[2:27]

57.  Stein, William Besshe.  “Walden: The Wisdom of the Centaur,” Journal of

English Literary History, Vol. 25, No. 3 (September 1958).

58.  Stein, William Besshe.  “Thoreau’s Walden and the Bhagavad Gita,” The

Contemporary Far East, Topic: 6: a Journal of the Liberal Arts, Fall 1963.

59.  Stein, William Bysshe.  “Thoreau’s First Book: a Spoor of Yoga: The Orient

in a Week on the Concord and Merrick Rivers,” Emerson Society Quarterly, No. 41 (1965).

[2:28]

60.  Stewert, Randall.  “Concord Group,” The Sewanee Review, vol. 44 (October

1936).

61.  Stewart, Randall.  “The Growth of Thoreau’s Reputation,” College English,

Vol. 7, No. 4 (January 1946).

[2:29]

62.  Strauch, Carl F. “The Daemonic and Experimental in Emerson,” The

Personalist, Vol. XXXIII (January 1952).

63.  Strauch, Carl F.  “The Date of Emerson’s Terminus,” PMLA, Vol. LXV, No.

4 (June 1950).

64.  Strauch, Carl F.  “Emerson as a Creator of Vignettes,” Modern Language

Notes, Vol. 70, No. 4 (April 1955).

65.  Strauch, Carl F.  “Emerson Rejects Reed and Hails Thoreau,” Harvard

Library Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 3 (July 1968).

[2:30]

66.  Strauch, Carl F.   “Emerson’s ‘New England Capitalist’,” Harvard Library

Bulletin, Volume X, Number 2 (Spring 1956).

67.  Strauch, Carl F.  “The Importance of Emerson’s Skeptical Mood,” Harvard

Library Bulletin, Vol. XI, No. 1 (Winter 1957).

68.  Strauch, Carl F.  Reprint of “The MS Relationship of Emerson’s ‘Days’,”

Philological Quarterly, Volume XXIX, No. 2 (April 1950).

69.  Strauch, Carl F.  “Emerson and the Doctrine of Sympathy,” Studies in

Romanticism, (Spring 1967).

[2:31]

70.  Strauch, Carl F.  “Emerson’s PHI BETA KAPPA Poem,” New England

Quarterly, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 (March 1950).

71.  Strauch, Carl F.  “The Sources of Emerson’s ‘Song of Nature’,” Harvard

Library Bulletin, Volume IX, No.3 (Autumn 1955).

72.  Strauch, Carl F.  “Emerson’s ‘Unwilling Senator’ the Background and

Meaning of the ‘Ode inscribed to W. H. Channing’,” Emerson Society Quarterly (1966).

73.  Strauch, Carl F.  Reprint of “The Year of Emerson’s Poetic Maturity: 1834,”

Philological Quarterly, Volume XXXIV,  No. 4 (October 1955).

[2:32]

74.  Terry, Helen.  “Emerson Overshot Milwaukee!” Milwaukee Journal

(1/2/1954).

a.  Attached is a letter, from “Ralph” to “Henry,” dated January 8, 1958.

75.  Tilton, Eleanor M.  “Emerson’s Lecture Schedule: 1837 - 1838 Revised.” 

Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. XXI, No. 4.

76.  Thorp, Willard.  “Emerson on Tour,” The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol.

XVI (Feb 1930).

[2:33]

77.  Utley, Francis. “Thoreau and Columella: A Study in Ready Habits,” New

England Quarterly, XI (March, 1938).

78.  Utley, Francis.  “Thoreau and Columella: A Study in Reading Habits,” New

England Quarterly, Vol. XI, No. 1 (March 1938).

[2:34]

79.  Walcutt, Charles C.  “Thoreau in the Twentieth Century,” The South Atlantic

Quarterly, Vol. XXIX No. 2 (April 1940).

80.  Warfel, Harry.  “Margaret Full and Ralph Waldo Emerson,” PMLA, Vol. 50,

No. 2 (June 1935).

81.  Warren, Edward A.  “The Teachings of Emerson: A Critique from the

Standpoints of Christianity and Humanism,” The New Church Review

(July 1922).

82.  Whitford, Philip and Kathryn.  “Thoreau: Pioneer Ecologist and

Conservationist,” The Scientific Monthly, Vol. LXXIII, No. 5 (Nov, 1951).

[2:35]

83.  Witherell, Elizabeth.  “An Editor’s Nightmare: ‘It is no Dream of Mine’ in

the Princeton Edition of Thoreau’s Poetry,” The Concord Saunterer, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Fall 1977).

D.  Entire Journals

[2:36]

1. Concord Saunterer. Volume 1, No. 1, Fall 1993.

2.  National Geographic. Volume 162, No. 1 (July 1982)

[2:37]

            3.  A Thoreau Gazetteer.  By Robert F. Stowell.

IV.  Book Reviews [2:38]

1.  Derleth, August.  “Books of the Times,” The Capital Times (Nov. 18, 1965). 

Review of Walter Harding’s The Days of Henry Thoreau.

a.  Correspondence.  1965 (Nov. 19).  Merton Sealts writes to Walter

Harding, congratulating him on the positive book review (Days of Henry Thoreau).

2.  Kern, Alexander C.  Book Reviews, AL (?) Nov. 1974).  Reviews Charles

Anderson’s Thoreau’s Vision: The Major Essays.

3.  Mott, Wesley T.  “A ‘Daily Life Rich Enough to be Journalized’: Thoreau’s

Journal Volume 4,” Documentary Editing (June 1994).  Review of Henry D. Thoreau’s Journal Volume 4: 1851-1852).  Eds. Leonard N. Neufeldt and Nancy Craig Simmons.

4.  Nichols, John.  “Books of the Times: Picks of the Week,” Madison Capital

Times (July 22, 1994).  Reviews Thoreau’s Walden.  Original and copy.

5.  Pochmann, Henry A.  Untitled Book Review.  Reviews Perry Miller’s

Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau’s Hitherto “Lost Journal” (1840-1841) Together with Notes and a Commentary.

6.  Sealts, Merton M.  “Book Reviews,” Journal of England and Germanic

Philology, Vol. 82, No. 4, October 1983 issue 579-581.  Book Review of Leonard Neufeldt‘s, “The House of Emerson.”

7.  Strauch, Carl F.  “Book Reviews,” Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 2, No.

3 (1965).  Review of The Correspondence of Emerson and Carlyle.  Edited by Samuel Slater.

8.  Tuttleton, James.  “The Discord at Concord,” The New York Times (4.4.96).

Reviews Carlos Baker’s “Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait.” 2 copies.

IV.  Clippings [2:39]

1.  Anonymous.  “Scottish ‘Thoreau’ To Speak Here,” (1961).

2.  Mitchell, John Hanson.  “Digging Thoreau,” Boston Magazine (Dec 1981).

3.  Nichols, John.  “Thoreau Collection Recalls Rebel Spirit in America,” Captial

Times, July 2 1999).

4.  Nordell, Roderick.  “Notes on Winter Words at Walden,” Christian Science

Monitor (January 19, 1963).  2 copies.

V.  Publisher’s Advertisements [2:40]

1.  Cameron, Kenneth Walter. Emerson, Thoreau and Concord in Early

Newspapers. and The Transcendentalists and Minerva.

a.  Correspondence. Clifford K. Shipton to Dr. Kenneth Walter

Cameron.

2.  Cameron, Kenneth Walter.  Companion to Thoreau’s Correspondence. 

Transcendental Books  With foreward.

3. Child, Christopher.  Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David

Thoreau.

4.  Emerson, Ralph Waldo.  Walden. Illustrated with photographs from the

Gleason Collection.

            5.  Haskell House, Series 68: Thoreau Series.  Haskell House Publishers, LTD.

            6.  Lebeaux, Richard.  Young Man Thoreau.  University of Massachusetts Press.

            7.  Stowell, Robert F.  A Thoreau Gazetteer.  Edited by William L. Howarth. 

Princeton University Press 1970.

8.  Thoreau, Henry David.  Anti-Slavery and Referm Papers. Edited with an

Introduction by Walter Harding.

            9.  Thoreau, Henry David.  “In Wilderness is the Preservation of the World,”

selections and photographs by Eliot Porter. 

10.  Thoreau, Henry David. Throeau’s Guide to Cape Cod.  Edited by Adams,

            Alexander B.

V.  Miscellaneous Items

1.  “Boston Almanac for the Year 1843,” by S.N. Dickinson and a “Guide at a Glance” map and “high spots” guide.  [2:41]

2.  Correspondence.  Letter from Wes Mott to Merton Sealts (Dec. 13 1993). 

                        [2:42]

a.  Thoreau Society Bulletins 191- 133. [see 2:5]

                        b.  Advertisement for joint program between the Center for American

Studies at Concord and the Alcott House.

                        c.  Thoreau Society Annual Meeting reservation for lunch/buffet supper.

3.  Correspondence.  Merton Sealts to Professor George Hendrick (Oct. 19 1970).

[2:43]

            4.  Johnson, Linck C.  Research Papers. [2:44]

                        a.  Introduction [to a Complex Weave]

                        b.  “’Native to New England: Thoreau, ‘Herald of Freedom,’ and A

Week.”

                        c.  “Contexts of Bravery: Thoreau’s Revisions of ‘The Service’ for A

Week.”

            5.  Miscellaneous college handouts on Walden. [2:45]

            6.  Miscellaneous notes. [2:46]

            7.  “Thoreau in these Times,” by Dana McLean Greeley.  A tribute given to

Thoreau at the First Parish in Concord (July 15, 1973). [2:47]

            8.  Print of hand drawn map, “Concord/ Walden.”

9.  Henry David Thoreau wanted poster. [2:48]

10. Thoreau Society Shop at Walden Pond merchandise catalog, Summer 1997.

[2:49]

11.  5 reproductions of a one dollar bill issued by the Glen’s Falls Bank in 1851.

[2:50]

12.  2 copies of the “Circle of the Seasons” calendar, with select quotations from

H.D. Thoreau. [2:51]

            13.  Fragment of a list of books for sale concerning Thoreau criticism.  [2:52]

14.  Cartoon.  “The Small Society,” by Brinkman. [2:53]

15.  Miscellaneous fragment of an article clipping concerning Emerson. [2:54]

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