The Walden Woods Project’s Library is honored to be the designated repository for the organizational records of The Thoreau Alliance, the Emerson Society, the Margaret Fuller Society, and the Louisa May Alcott Society. We also hold the research collections for a number of important scholars and writers on Thoreau, his contemporaries, and the environmental movement. It is the mission of the library to collect, preserve and make available research materials relating to the Transcendentalists, their historical context, and their contemporary relevance to human-rights and environmental issues. Our growing collection serves as a vital resource for scholars from around the world, as well as for students and teachers locally. For more information on these collections, click below.
The Walden Woods Project Library Collections
(Complete List with Call Numbers)
- Adin Ballou-Joseph S. Cooper Collection
- Paul Brooks Collection
- Albert Bussewitz Collection
- Eric W. Carlson Papers
- Lewis C. Dawes Collection
- Rev. Milton E. Detterline Collection
- Stephen F. Ells Collection
- Richard F. Fleck Thoreau Papers
- Eleanor Friede Papers
- The Robert J. Galvin Collection
- Richard Bartlett Gregg Papers
- Kristina Joyce Papers — 1993-1998
- The Scott and Helen Nearing Papers
- New-CUE Archives
- Daniel and Louisa Ricketson Almanacs
- Edmund A. Schofield Collection
- Mary Sherwood Papers
- The Corinne H. Smith Collection
- The Thoreau Country Conservation Alliance Archives
- The Thoreau Library of Kevin MacDonnell
- The Walden Woods Project Institutional Archives and Research Collection
- The Lonnie L. Willis Collection
The Thoreau Society Collections
- Raymond Adams Collection
- Walter Harding Collection
- Roland Wells Robbins Collection
- Archives of The Thoreau Society
- The Wheelwright Collection
- The J. Walter Brain Collection
- The Thoreau Quarterly Files
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Collection
The Margaret Fuller Society Collection
