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Walter Harding (1917-1996)

From a woodcut by “R.J.S.”
published in Alexander Japp’s “Henry David Thoreau” Welcome (November 1887)
in The Walter Harding Collection in the Thoreau Society Collections
and used by Walter Harding as a bookplate

Texts by Walter Harding:

• 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

• Was it Legal? Thoreau in Jail (link to American Heritage)

About Walter Harding:

• A Walter Harding Bibliography

• The Walter Harding Collection in the Thoreau Society Collection

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