Collected Correspondence:
The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode (Washington Square: New York University Press, 1958)
- Introductory material
- 1836 ◊ 1837 ◊ 1838 ◊ 1839 ◊ 1840 ◊ 1841 ◊ 1842 ◊ 1843 ◊ 1844 ◊ 1845 ◊ 1846 ◊ 1847 ◊ 1848 ◊ 1849 ◊ 1850 ◊ 1851 ◊ 1852 ◊ 1853 ◊ 1854 ◊ 1855 ◊ 1856 ◊ 1857 ◊ 1858 ◊ 1859 ◊ 1860 ◊ 1861 ◊ 1862
- Undated Letters
- Addendum
- Index
Selected Correspondence:
- The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence; The Dial Period edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (The Atlantic Monthly, May 1892)
- The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Emerson in Europe edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (The Atlantic Monthly, June 1892)
- A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence Between Henry Thoreau and Isaac Hecker edited by E. H. Russell (The Atlantic Monthly, September 1902)
- Familiar Letters edited by Franklin B. Sanborn (Enlarged edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)
- Letters to Harrison Gray Otis Blake edited by Wendell Glick (from Great Short Works of Henry David Thoreau edited, with an introduction, by Wendell Glick (New York: Harper & Row, 1982). Reprinted courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers
Recently discovered letter:
This newly-discovered letter dates from Thoreau’s sophomore year at Harvard, 1834, when he was seventeen years old. It was written with James Richardson with whom Thoreau shared room 32 in Hollis. Richardson described himself to the Class Secretary as a “public teacher, or preacher of theology and religion or righteousness, and also in connection with it, [a] minister or servant in the great cause of human salvation from ignorance, malice, sin, disease, and suffering.” Oliver Sparhawk, to whom Thoreau addressed the letter, was a steward of Harvard, appointed to that position in 1831 and remaining in it until his death in 1835.
