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Author

Publisher

Publisher Location

Date Published

“Thoreau’s Flute” by Louisa May Alcott

At Home and Abroad, or Things and Thoughts in Europe (1856)

Margaret Fuller Ossoli

and Company

Boston

1856

Papers on Literature and Art (1846)

S. Margaret Fuller

Wiley and Putnam

New York

1846

Sister of the Old Wild Goose: An Autobiography

Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

S. Margaret Fuller

Greeley & McElrath

New York

1845

A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry D. Thoreau and Isaac T. Hecker (1902). By E. Harlow Russell.

E. Harlow Russell

Press of Charles Hamilton

Worcester

1902

A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry Thoreau and Isaac Hecker

Henry David Thoreau

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

A Plea for Captain John Brown

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Poem Delivered in The First Congregational Church in the Town of Quincy, May 25, 1840, The Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town.

Christopher Pearse Cranch

James Munroe and Company

Boston

A Raymond Adams Bibliography

A Thoreau Herbarium: Selected Images

Concord, MA

1850s

A Walk to Wachusett

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Walter Harding Bibliography

The Walden Woods Project

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Biographical sketch by R.W. Emerson

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Concord River

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Introductory Note

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Saturday

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Sunday

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: Title page and Publisher’s advertisement

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Winter Walk

Henry David Thoreau

The Dial

Chicago

1843

A Winter Walk

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

A Yankee in Canada

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Alfred W. Hosmer Photographs

Alfred W. Hosmer (1851-1903)

Amelia Watson’s Sketches for Thoreau’s Cape Cod (1896)

Amelia Montague Watson (1856-1934)

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1896

Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888)

Amos Bronson Alcott

Army Life in a Black Regiment (1882)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Lee and Shepard

Boston

1882

Aulus Persius Flaccus

Henry David Thoreau

The Dial

Chicago

1840

Autumnal Tints

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Born-Again Thoreauvians

Walter Harding

1978

Brister Freeman (1744-1822)

Brook Farm: Adoption of Fourierism

Brook Farm: Ideal turned Reality

Cape Cod and Miscellanies

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Cape Cod: Stage-Coach Views

Cape Cod: The Beach

Cape Cod: The Plains of Nauset

Cape Cod: The Shipwreck

Cato Ingraham (1751-1805)

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau

Compiled by Christopher Childs

The Penmaen Press

Boston

1978

Collecting Henry David Thoreau

Kevin MacDonnell

Firsts

Tuscon

September 1999

Correspondences

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Dark Ages

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Days and Nights in Concord

Henry David Thoreau

Scribner's Monthly and Illustrated Magazine for the People

New York

September 1878

Days in June

Henry David Thoreau

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

June 1878

Description of the Walter Harding Collection

Walter Harding

Edmund A. Schofield: A Bibliography

Jeffrey S. Cramer

Elizabeth Peabody and Her Æsthetic Papers by Clarence L. F. Gohdes

Clarence L.F. Gohdes

The Walden Woods Project

Boston

2007

Essays

Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind (1834).

Jonathan Dymond

Harper & Brothers

Philadelphia

1834

Excursions and Poems

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Familiar Letters

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Former Inhabitants of Walden Woods

Fortune of the Republic (1878).

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Osgood and Company

Boston

1878

Fruitlands

Fruitlands: Community in Harvard

Fruitlands: Inspiration Overseas

Fruitlands: Utopia in Concord

Grandfather’s Chair (1841)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

E. P. Peabody

Boston

1841

H.G.O. (Harrison Gray Otis) Blake (1816-1898)

Harrison Gray Otis

Bentley

London

1890

Hebert W. Gleason Photographs (The Writings of Henry David Thoreau)

Herbert W. Gleason (1855-1937)

Henry David Thoreau: The Darwinian Naturalist

Jill Morgan Clark

2005

Henry Thoreau and John Muir Among the Indians

Richard F. Fleck

Archon Books

Hamdem

1985

Herald of Freedom

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Herald of Freedom

Henry David Thoreau

The Dial

1844

Homer. Ossian. Chaucer

Henry David Thoreau

The Dial

Chicago

1844

J. Lyndon Shanley’s Transcription of the First Version of Walden

Henry David Thoreau

Journal I

Henry David Thoreau

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

1905

Journal I: 1837 – 1846

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal II: 1850 – September 15, 1851

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal III: September 16, 1851 – April 30, 1852

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal IV: May 1, 1852 – February 27, 1853

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal IX: August 16, 1856 – August 7, 1857

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal V: March 5 – November 30, 1853

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal VI: December 1, 1853 – August 31, 1854

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal VI: December 1853 – August 1854

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal VII: September 1, 1854 – October 30, 1855

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal VIII: November 1, 1855- August 15, 1856

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal X: August 8, 1857 – June 29, 1858

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal XI: July 2, 1858 – February 28, 1859

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal XII: March 2, 1859 – November 30, 1859

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal XIII: December 1, 1859 – July 31, 1860

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Journal XIV: August 1, 1860 – November 3, 1861

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Kobboltozo: A Sequel to the Last of the Huggermuggers (1869)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Lee and Shepard

Boston

1869

Kristina Joyce Papers — 1993-1998

Ktaadn, and the Maine Woods

Henry David Thoreau

Sartain's Union Magazine

New York

July 1848

Letters to Harrison Gray Otis Blake

Henry David Thoreau

Harper & Row

New York

1982

Life Without Principle

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Literary Sketches (1888)

Henry S. Salt

Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co.

London

1888

Live Your Own Life

Walter Harding

1984

Looming of the Sun

Henry D. Thoreau

18 November 1864

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846

New York

1903

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1874).

R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, J.F. Clarke

Roberts Brothers

Boston

1874

Miscellaneous Writings on Thoreau

Amos Bronson Alcott

Roberts Brothers

Boston

1882

My Memories of Gandhi

Richard B. Gregg

Natural History of Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau

The Dial

Chicago

1842

Natural History of Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Night and Moonlight

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Notebooks

Henry David Thoreau

The Walden Woods Project

Lincoln

Of the Thoreaus.

Irving Allen

The Boston Daily Advertiser

Boston

23 April 1894

On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills (1908)

Henry S. Salt

Arthur C. Fifield

London

1908

Orphic Sayings I – L by Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott

The Dial

Boston

July 1840

Orphic Sayings LI – C by Amos Bronson Alcott

Amos Bronson Alcott

The Dial

Boston

January 1841

Orphics: I. Smoke. — II. Haze

Henry David Thoreau

1843

Paradise (to be) Regained

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Poems (1844)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Carey and Hart

Philadelphia

1844

Poems from Excursions and Poems (1906)

Poetry

Portfolio of Cartes de Visite

Prayers

Henry David Thoreau

Prescott Gibbons’ Walden Pond Series

Prescott Gibbons (1960- )

2002

Rachel Carson’s Legacy

The Walden Woods Project

Lincoln

2008

Richard Bartlett Gregg Papers

Satan: a Libretto (1874)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Roberts Brothers

Boston

1874

Selections from the “Indian Notebooks” (1847-1861)

Henry David Thoreau

The Walden Woods Project

Boston

2007

Short Studies of American Authors (1880)

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Lee and Shepard

Boston

1880

Sketches from Concord and Appledore: An Excerpt by Frank Preston Stearns

Frank Preston Stearns

G.P. Putnam's

New York

1895

Slavery in Massachusetts

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Sonnets and Canzonets (1882)

A. Bronson Alcott

Roberts Brothers

Boston

1882

Summer on the Lakes in 1843 (1844)

S. Margaret Fuller

Charles C. Little and James Brown

Boston

1844

The 2008 New-CUE Environmental Writers’ Conference in Honor of Rachel Carson

The Albert W. Bussewitz Collection

The Walden Woods Project

Lincoln

The Albert W. Bussewitz Collection: A Finding Aid

The Art of Seeing

Paul Brooks

The Cottage Press

Lincoln

2004

The Bird and the Bell with Other Poems (1875)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Osgood and Company

Boston

1875

The Books of Henry S. Salt, 1887-1937

Raymond Adams

The Books of Henry S. Salt, 1887-1937

The Corinne H. Smith Collection

The Creed of Kinship (1935)

Henry S. Salt

Constable & Co Ltd

London

1935

The Dial (October 1842)

The Edmund A. Schofield Collection

The Edmund A. Schofield Collection Finding Aid

The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Emerson in Europe

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

June 1892

The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: The Dial Period

Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

May 1892

The Forester

Amos Bronson Alcott

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

April 1862

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

The Landlord

Henry David Thoreau

Chicago

1844

The Landlord

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

The Last Days of John Brown

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

The Last of the Huggermuggers: a Giant Story (1856)

Christopher Pearse Cranch

Boston

1856

The Lectures of Henry David Thoreau

The Lewis C. Dawes Collection

The Walden Woods Project

Boston

2006, 2012

The Life and Letters of Christopher Pearse Cranch (1917)

Leonora Cranch Scott

Houghton Mifflin Company

Boston

1917

The Life of Henry David Thoreau (1890)

Henry S. Salt

Richard Bentley & Son

London

1890

The Maine Woods

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

The Mary Sherwood Papers

The Moon

Henry David Thoreau

The Dial

1842

The New-CUE Collections

The Paul Brooks Collection

The Paul Brooks Collection: A Finding Aid

The Walden Woods Project

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

The Walden Woods Project

Boston

2007, 2012

The Raymond Adams Collection in The Thoreau Society Collections

The Richard F. Fleck Papers

The Robert J. Galvin Collection

The Roland Wells Robbins Collection in The Thoreau Society Collections

The Scott and Helen Nearing Papers

The Service: Qualities of the Recruit

Henry David Thoerau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

1906

The Succession of Forest Trees

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

The Thoreau Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell

The Thoreau Collection of Kevin Mac Donnell: A Finding Aid

Kevin MacDonnell

The Walden Woods Project

Lincoln

2015

The Thoreau Edition Archives: A Brief Finding Aid

The Thoreau Society Archives

The Two Thoreaus by George Willis Cooke

George Willis Cooke

1896

The Walden Woods Project Archives & Collection

The Walden Woods Project

The Walter Harding Collection in The Thoreau Society Collections

The Western Thoreau Centenary: Selected Papers

Utah State University Press

Salt Lake City

1963

The Wheelwright Collection in The Thoreau Society Collections

The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (1906)

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

The Younger Generation in 1840

Richard Frederick Fuller

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

August 1923

Thomas Carlyle and His Works

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Thoreau

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1903-1921

Thoreau

Amos Bronson Alcott

Thoreau as a Diarist

Bradford Torrey

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

January 1905

Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend (1917)

Edward Waldo Emerson

Houghton Mifflin Company

Boston

1917

Thoreau by Charles Conrad Abbott

Charles Conrad Abbott

1906

Thoreau: His Life and Aims. A Study. (1877)

Alexander Hay Japp

James R. Osgood & Company

Boston

1877

Thoreau’s Attitude Toward Nature

Bradford Torrey

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

November 1899

Thoreau’s Journal Sketches: A Selection

Henry D. Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Henry D. Thoreau Journal Sketdches

Transcendentalism in New England

Octavius Brooks Frothingham

1876

Transcription of the first version of Walden

Transcribed by J. Lyndon Shanley

Translations

Henry David Thoreau

Two Uncollected Talks by Jane Langton

Jane Langton

1985

Walden

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Walking

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Walks with Ellery Channing

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

July 1902

Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

1906

Wild Apples

Henry David Thoreau

Houghton Mifflin and Company

Boston

1906

Winter Days

Henry David Thoreau

The Atlantic Monthly

Washington, D.C.

January 1885

Words for Nature: Spirit, Wildness, and the Sublime in the Writings of Henry D. Thoreau

The Walden Woods Project

Lincoln

2006

Zilpah White (1738-1820)

and Company
Archon Books
Arthur C. Fifield
Bentley
Carey and Hart
Charles C. Little and James Brown
Constable & Co Ltd
E. P. Peabody
Firsts
G.P. Putnam's
Greeley & McElrath
Harper & Brothers
Harper & Row
Houghton Mifflin and Company
Houghton Mifflin Company
James Munroe and Company
James R. Osgood & Company
Lee and Shepard
Osgood and Company
Press of Charles Hamilton
Richard Bentley & Son
Roberts Brothers
Sartain's Union Magazine
Scribner's Monthly and Illustrated Magazine for the People
Swan Sonnenschein Lowrey & Co.
The Atlantic Monthly
The Boston Daily Advertiser
The Cottage Press
The Dial
The Penmaen Press
The Walden Woods Project
Utah State University Press
Wiley and Putnam

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