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"Autumnal Tints"                                                                                       
First line: "October is the month of painted leaves."   

• A.m.s. (2 sides) in MS Edition (#383) 

• Published version in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906), vol. V,  p. 251

The Thoreau Society Archives in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

Cape Cod "Stage Coach Views"                                                               
First line: "truth is their houses are floating ones."     

• A.m.s.  (2 sides)

• Published version in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906), vol. IV,  p. 25-26

The Walden Woods Project Collection/Display case

HDT to Mrs. Lucy Brown (draft), 8 September 1841   

• A.l. (1 side)

• Published version in  The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, p. 46

The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

HDT to George A Thatcher, 9 February 1849

• A.l.s.  (2 sides)

• Unpublished

The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

HDT to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 19 February 1855

• A.l.s.  (2 sides)

• Published version in  The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, p. 372-373 

• Cited in the Princeton Edition's Thoreau's Correspondence

The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

HDT to Daniel Ricketson, 1 April 1857

• A.l.s.  (2 sides)

• Published version in  The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, p. 472

The Thoreau Society Archives in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

Journal: 1837 [1st leaf of T's "Red Journal"]                                       
Contains: draft of "Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf"

• A.m.s. (2 sides)  

• Cited in Howarth: E1a, B8, B23a

The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

Journal: 4 November 1858                                                                        
First line: "the wood is at this season sere brown."

• A.m.s. (1 side) in MS Edition (#548)

• Published version in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906), vol. XVII, p. 285

The Walden Woods Project Collection/Display case

"Life Without Principle"                                                                             
First line: "I do not know but it is too much to read one newspaper a week.""                             

• A.m.s. (2 sides) removed from MS Edition (#449) 

• Published version in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906), vol. IV,  p. 47

• Cited in Howarth: C15t

The Walter Harding Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods/Display case

"Moonlight"                                                                                               
First line: "Why not walk a little way in the light?"      

• A.m.s. (2 sides) 

• Cited in Howarth: G2b

The Thoreau Society Archives in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods

"Sir Walter Raleigh" 

• A.m.s. (36 leaves)

• Unpublished draft                                                    

 The Walden Woods Project Collection

"Walking"                                                                                                 
First line: "We hug the earth, -- how rarely we mount!"  

• A.m.s. (2 sides) in MS Edition (#337) 

• Published version in Excursions 

• Cited in Howarth: C11j

The Raymond Adams Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections at The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods