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Map — Thoreau's Beanfield

Title	Map — Thoreau's beanfield
Creator(s)	Edward Emerson Waldo (1844-1930)
Subject(s)	Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862; Walden Pond (Middlesex County, Mass.) -- Maps; Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Maps; Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930
Description	Autograph letter of Edward Waldo Emerson to Harry A. McGraw, 22 October 1920, with hand-drawn map identifying the location of Thoreau's beanfield
Text transcription	Dear Sir, The bean-field where Thoreau had, in self defense, to “effect the transmigration” of the woodchuck was in the square between the Lincoln Road and the wood-roads, as in the plan. When the pines perished in a wood-fire it grew up to birches and scrub oaks, as now seen. Age and disease have destroyed nearly all of the pines which made a screen, in their prime, to the house. Sincerely yours Edward W. Emerson
Publisher	Walden Woods Project: http://www.walden.org/institute
Date	1920
Type	image
Format	image/jpeg
Full-size image	http://www.walden.org/institute/Images/Beanfield%20map.jpg
Source	A.l.s. in the Raymond Adams Collection (The Thoreau Society Collections)
Collection	The Raymond Adams Collection (The Thoreau Society Collections)
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