Henry David Thoreau

by Laura Dassow Walls

  91. Mary P. Sherwood, “Thoreau’s Penobscot Indians,” Thoreau Journal Quarterly 1.1 (January 1969), 6.

  92. Ricketson and Ricketson, Ricketson and His Friends, 214; CHDT, 641 (HDT to Myron Benson, March 21, 1862).

  93. JMN, 15:246; Ricketson and Ricketson, Ricketson and His Friends, 137.

  94. W. E. Channing II, Poet-Naturalist (1902), 337; W. E. Channing II, Poet-Naturalist (1873), 320, 322.

  95. ABAJ, 346; W. E. Channing II, Poet-Naturalist (1902), 343; CHDT, 650–51 (D. Ricketson to HDT, May 4, 1862). Walter Harding’s quotation from Channing (“‘Moose’ and ‘Indian’”) is incorrect (Days of HT, 466); Channing wrote “Indians,” plural, in both the 1873 and the 1902 editions.

  96. Walden, 267 (“long-headed farmer”); Mary Hosmer Brown, Memories of Concord (Boston: Four Seas, 1926), 105–6.

  97. For a full accounting of the controversy over Thoreau’s last words, see Kathy Fedorko, “Revisiting Henry’s Last Words,” TSB 295 (Fall 2016): 1–4.

  98. THOT, 50 (Sarah Ripley’s quote), 49 (Sophia Hawthorne’s quote).

  99. Ricketson and Ricketson, Ricketson and His Friends, 138; ABAJ, 348. Alcott’s “Readings” were quite a mash-up.

  100. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Thoreau,” 431; Sophia Hawthorne quoted in THOT, 49. Significantly, at Thoreau’s death, the town clerk listed his occupation as “natural historian.”

  101. J, 14:109–10 (October 10, 1860).

  102. LRWE, 5:278–79; Emerson, “Thoreau,” 425. Edward left on his own journey west on May 12, 1862, three days after Thoreau’s funeral.

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  ———. “Thoreau and John Brown’s Pottawatomie.” Thoreau Society Bulletin 210 (Winter 1995): 2–3.

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  ———. “Helen Thoreau’s Anti-Slavery Scrapbook.” Yale Review 100.1 (January 2012): 103–20.

  ———. “Men and Women of Fairest Promise: Transcendentalism in Concord.” Concord Saunterer, n.s., 2.1 (Fall 1994): 5–18.

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