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• Abbott, Charles Conrad (1843-1919). Thoreau from Notes of the Night, and Other Outdoor Sketches (New York: The Century Co., 1896)

• Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888). The Forester (The Atlantic Monthly, April 1862)

• Brooks, Paul  (1909-1998) The Art of Seeing Nature

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882):

  • Thoreau with notes by Edward Emerson

  • Walks with Ellery Channing (July 1902)

• Frederick, Michael J. Transcendental Ethos: A Study of Thoreau’s Social Philosophy and Its Consistency in Relation to Antebellum Reform. A Thesis in the Field of History for the Degree of Master of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies (Harvard University, November 1998)

• Frothingham, Octavius Brooks (1822-1895). Transcendentalism in New England from Transcendentalism in New England: A History (New York: G.O. Putnam's Sons, 1876)

• Fuller, Richard Frederick (1824-1869). The Younger Generation in 1840 (The Atlantic Monthly, August 1923)

• Gohdes, Clarence L.F. (1901-1997). Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers  from The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1931)

• Harding, Walter (1917-1996):

  • A Bee-Line With Thoreau

  • Born Again Thoreauvians

  • Five Ways of Looking at Walden

  • Introduction to Roland Robbins' Discovery at Walden

  • Letter to the Editor (The New York Times, 15 October 1972)

  • Live Your Own Life

  • Thoreau's Feminine Foe

  • Uncle Charlie Comes to Concord

• Higginson, Thomas Wentworth (1823-1911). Thoreau from Short Studies of American Authors (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1880, c1879)

• Hooper, Ellen Sturgis (1812-1848). Poems

• Hough, Henry Beetle (1896-1985). Amelia Watson (The Dukes County Intelligencer, February 1968)

• Hudson, Hannah Reba. Concord Books (Harper's Monthly Magazine, June 1875)

• Langton, Jane (1922-  ). Two Uncollected Talks: The Uses of New England Ecstasy ◊ The War in Vietnam, The First Parish in Lincoln, Me, and Henry Thoreau

• Mnookin, Abigail.  Remotely Wild: Ongoing Struggles over Land Use in the Maine Woods (Honors Thesis: Harvard University, March 1999)

• Nearing, Helen (1904-1995). Thoreau: Judged in his own Time (lecture)

• Nearing, Scott (1883-1983):

  • Actions for Peace

  • Call to Action

  • Introduction to Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

  • Masters and Slaves

  • Memorandum for Right Living

  • Promoting the General Welfare in 1955 (lecture)

  • Teaching is My Job

  • Who Should Pay for the War?

• A Plain Discussion with a Transcendentalist (The New Englander, October 1843)

• Salt, Henry S. Salt (1851-1939). Thoreau in Twenty Volumes (Fortnightly Review in The Living Age,18 July 1908)

• Schofield, Edmund A. (1938-  ):

  • The Date(s) and Context of Thoreau's Visit to Brook Farm

  • Thoreau, the Reverend Book-Peddler Hawkins, and the Doctor Lunsford Lane

  • The Walden Ecosystem

  • Words for Nature: Spirit, Wildness, and the Sublime in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, compiled, edited and with a foreword by Edmund A. Schofield

• Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862):

  • A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry Thoreau and Isaac Hecker edited by E. H. Russell (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1902)

  • Autumnal Tints (1862: text, as published in The Atlantic Monthly)

  • Days in June (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1878)

  • Days and Nights in Concord (Scribner's Monthly and Illustrated Magazine for the People, September 1878)

  • Died. . . Miss Anna Jones (1837: Yeoman's Gazette)

  • The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: The Dial Period edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1892)

  • The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Emerson in Europe edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1892)

  • Journal I (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1905)

  • Ktaadn, and the Maine Woods (Sartain's Union Magazine, July-November 1848)

  • Lecture ["A Plea for Captain John Brown"](1860: text, as published in James Redpath's Echoes of Harper's Ferry)

  • Letters to Harrison Gray Otis Blake edited by Wendell Glick (from Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreau edited, with an introduction, by Wendell Glick (New York: Harper & Row, 1982). Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers)

  • Looming of the Sun [The Boatswain's Whistle (18 November 1864)]

  • Mr. Thoreau's Remarks (1860: text, as published in James Redpath's "Services at Concord" in Echoes of Harper's Ferry)

  • Night and Moonlight (1863: The Atlantic Monthly)

  • Resistance to Civil Government (1849: Æsthetic Papers)

  • Selections from the "Indian Notebooks" (1847-1861) of Henry D. Thoreau transcribed, with an introduction and additional material, by Richard F. Fleck

  • The Service (1902: The Merrymount Press, Boston)

  • Sir Walter Raleigh (1905: text, as published by The Bibliophile Society)

  • The Succession of Forest Trees (1860: The New-York Weekly Tribune)

  • A Walk to Wachusett (1843: The Boston Miscellany)

  • Walden: J. Lyndon Shanley's Transcription of the First Version of Walden

  • Walking (1862: text, as published in The Atlantic Monthly)

  • Wild Apples (1862: The Atlantic Monthly)

  • Winter Days (The Atlantic Monthly, January 1885)

• Torrey, Bradford:

  • Thoreau as a Diarist (January 1905)

  • Thoreau's Attitude Toward Nature (November 1899)

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