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Born in July 12, 1817 / Died in May 6, 1862 / United States / English

Bibliography

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BOOKS

  • A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe, 1849; London: Walter Scott, 1889).
  • Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854); republished as Walden (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1862; Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1884).
  • Excursions (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1863).
  • The Maine Woods (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864).
  • Cape Cod (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865; London: Sampson Low, 1865).
  • A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866).
  • Early Spring in Massachusetts, edited by H. G. O. Blake (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1881).
  • Summer: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Blake (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884; London: Unwin, 1884).
  • Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Blake (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888).
  • Autumn: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Blake (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892).
  • Miscellanies (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894).
  • Poems of Nature, edited by H. S. Salt and F. B. Sanborn (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin / London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1895).
  • The Service, edited by Sanborn (Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902).
  • The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau, 2 volumes, edited by Sanborn (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1905).
  • Sir Walter Raleigh (Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1905).
  • Journal, edited by Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen, volumes 7-20 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906); republished as The Journals of Henry David Thoreau, 2 volumes (New York: Dover, 1962).
  • The Moon (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1927).
  • The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmas (New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1931).
  • Collected Poems of Henry Thoreau, edited by Carl Bode (Chicago: Packard, 1943; enlarged edition, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1964).
  • Consciousness in Concord: The Text of Thoreau's Hitherto "Lost Journal" (1840-1841), edited by Perry Miller (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958).
  • Thoreau's Literary Notebooks in the Library of Congress, edited by Kenneth Walter Cameron (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1964).
  • Thoreau's Fact Book in the Harry Elkins Widener Collection in the Harvard College Library, 3 volumes, edited by Kenneth Walter Cameron (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1966-1987).
  • Huckleberries, edited by Leo Stoller (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1970).
  • Reform Papers, edited by Wendell Glick, volume 3 of The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973).
  • The Indians of Thoreau: Selections from the Indian Notebooks, edited by Richard F. Fleck (Albuquerque, N.M.: Hummingbird Press, 1974).
  • Early Essays and Miscellanies, edited by Joseph J. Moldenhauer and Edwin Moser, with Alexander Kern (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).
  • Natural History Essays, edited by Robert Sattelmeyer (Salt Lake City, Utah: Peregrine Smith, 1980).
  • Translations, edited by K. P. van Anglen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).
  • Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings, edited by Bradley P. Dean (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1993).
  • Wild Fruits: Thoreau's Rediscovered Last Manuscript, edited by Bradley P. Dean (New York: Norton, 1999).

Editions and Collections

  • The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Riverside Edition, 10 volumes, edited by H. D. Blake, F. B. Sanborn, and Horace Scudder (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894).
  • The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Manuscript Edition, 20 volumes, edited by Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906).
  • The Variorum Walden, edited by Walter Harding (New York: Twayne, 1962; revised edition, New York: Washington Square Press, 1963).
  • The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau, new edition, 12 volumes to date, edited by Walter Harding and others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971- ).

OTHER

  • "A Plea for Captain John Brown," in Echoes of Harper's Ferry, edited by James Redpath (Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860), pp. 17-42.

LETTERS

  • Letters to Various Persons (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1865).
  • Familiar Letters of Henry David Thoreau, edited by F. B. Sanborn (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1894).
  • The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Walter Harding and Carl Bode (New York: New York University Press, 1958).

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Henry David Thoreau's manuscripts, arranged in meticulous order at his death, were in the following decades widely dispersed. For details, see William Howarth, The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974). Various manuscript versions of Walden and other manuscripts, letters, poems, and journal materials are housed at the Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California; the largest collection of letters is housed at the Berg Collection and Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library; many letters and some essay drafts are held in Harvard University 's Houghton Library; most of Thoreau's journals, as well as his Indian and Canadian notebooks, are housed in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City. Other important collections are the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois; the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts; the John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; the Miriam Lutcher Stark Library at the University of Texas, Austin; the Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and the Abernathy Library at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont.