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About Thoreau's Life and Writings

Texts and Links
including Thoreau's contemporaries, his readings, current scholarship and related documents

William Andrus Alcott (1798-1859) 

Texts by William Andrus Alcott:

• LINK »»» Familiar Letters to Young Men on Various Subjects
• LINK »»» Young Man's Guide (10th ed., 1836)

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