With Thanks to Joel Myerson and Ronald Wesley Hoag

        This material on Thoreau's lecturing activities was drawn from two monographs by Bradley P. Dean and Ronald Wesley Hoag: "Thoreau's Lectures Before Walden: An Annotated Calendar" in Joel Myerson, ed., Studies in the American Renaissance, 1995 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995), pp. 127- 228; and "Thoreau's Lectures After Walden: An Annotated Calendar" in Joel Myerson, ed., Studies in the American Renaissance, 1996 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996), pp. 241-362.  Many thanks to Myerson and Hoag for permission to allow this material to appear here.