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The Thoreau Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell

Thoreau holograph manuscript leaf from Walden (The Thoreau Collection of Kevin MacDonnell)
Thoreau holograph manuscript leaf from Walden (The Thoreau Collection of Kevin MacDonnell)
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It would give me such joy to know that a friend had come to see me and yet that pleasure I seldom if ever experience.—Journal, 23 December 1851

 
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