[A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Journal entry, dated "Wednesday, Sept. 4." Partly basis for part of "Wednesday."
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[A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Journal entry, dated "Wednesday, Sept. 4." Partly basis for part of "Wednesday."
Collection
Henry David Thoreau collection
Series I. Manuscripts by Henry David Thoreau
Names
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 (Author)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1839-09-04 (Approximate)
Library Location
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Thoreau
Shelf locator: Printed book: Thoreau, Week on Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). c7.
Subjects
Transcendentalism (New England)
Nature study
Meditations
Genres
Notes
Citation/Reference: William Howarth, The Literary Manuscripts of Henry David Thoreau (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1974): not recorded.
Content: Includes many elements omitted from published "Week" and also often different form from in published "Journal." See passages on camping ("We supposed we had selected a retired part of the shore...") and Indians ("What do our anniversaries commemorate but white men’s exploits"), also part the basis of "Wednesday" passage starting "Not long after this we saw the Piscataquoag..." (journal: "We soon after saw the Piscataquoag...").
Ownership: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; W. T. H. Howe
Content: [4 written pages] ink, correction in pencil. Tipped into A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1849. Copy 7. This copy is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Physical Description
Extent: 1 double leaf
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15520476
Archives ID: 19098
accession number: 173735B
Other local Identifier: 4882039
Other local Identifier: 347ff1f0-206e-0130-7c90-58d385a7b928
Other local Identifier: Berg Coll MSS Thoreau inserted in Thoreau, Week on Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). c7.
Archives EAD ID: 949813
Archives Components ID: 767604
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 347ff1f0-206e-0130-7c90-58d385a7b928
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Journal entry, dated "Wednesday, Sept. 4." Partly basis for part of "Wednesday."" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1839. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/347ff1f0-206e-0130-7c90-58d385a7b928
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1839). [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Journal entry, dated "Wednesday, Sept. 4." Partly basis for part of "Wednesday." Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/347ff1f0-206e-0130-7c90-58d385a7b928
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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "[A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers]. Journal entry, dated "Wednesday, Sept. 4." Partly basis for part of "Wednesday."" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/347ff1f0-206e-0130-7c90-58d385a7b928
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