Preliminary Guide to the Henry D. Thoreau / Lawrence Willson Collection
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Preliminary Guide to the Henry D. Thoreau / Lawrence Willson Collection, ca. 1850s
Collection number: Mss 187
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
Contact Information:
- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
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07 January 2003
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- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Henry D. Thoreau / Lawrence Willson Collection,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1850s
Collection Number: Mss 187
Creator:
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None known.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Preferred Citation
Henry D. Thoreau / Lawrence Willson Collection. Mss 187. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Acquisition Information
Purchase, 1995.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains 8 items, mainly fragments of writings, notes, and drafts of letters by Henry D. Thoreau, acquired
by UCSB English Professor and Thoreau scholar, Lawrence Willson, from diverse sources.
Related Material
The 1999 guide, "Thoreau Holdings at UCSB Special Collections," provides a comprehensive listing of UCSB printed and manuscript
holdings at that time.
Box 1: 1
Miscellany -- 1 unused pencil, attributed by Willson to Thoreau
Box 1: 1
Natural History Notes -- botanical remarks written in pencil about plants, their uses, and the etymologies of their names,
copied by Thoreau from printed sources, primarily John Loudon's
Encyclopedia of Plants (London, 1836)
Box 1: 1
Walking-- full leaf, westward I go free portion
Box 1: 2
Note -- in Thoreau's hand, Aug. 15, 1859, signed by his mother Cynthia, authorizing payment to him of a stock dividend; transcription
of information about blueberry bushes, Oct. 17, 1850
Box 1: 2
Walking -- full leaf; with draft of letter to John D. Milner, Nov. 20, 1854; draft of letter to C. B. Bernard, Nov. 20, 1854;
index of topics for Life without Principle
Box 1: 3
Walden -- half leaf, re clothing, tattooing
Box 1: 3
Chastity and Sensuality -- half leaf, re lives of great men, Newton, sunset
Box 1: 3
The Service -- half leaf, re fools, arsenals
