Thoreau Holdings, UCSB Special Collections
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The following is a listing of all primary source material by Henry D.
Thoreau held in the Department of Special
Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Fuller information for the titles listed below, as well as information
about additional Thoreau material that is on the open stacks of the Davidson
Library, can be obtained through Pegasus,
the Library's online catalog.
For printed material, each entry contains the title of the work, the
place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication. The
call number follows, as well as information about inscriptions or numbered
copies of limited editions.
PRINTED MATERIALS: BOOKS
Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. PS3051 .C36 1865
(3 copies). Copy 1 inscribed "C. C. Holcombe Lee 1876". Copy 3 inscribed
"H. W. Wellington".
Cape Cod. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1866. PS3051 .C36 1866
Cape Cod. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1871, cl864. PS3051 .C36 1871.
Inscribed "Ellwood Cooper, Santa Barbara, 1872".
Cape Cod. 2 vols. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and
Company, 1896. PS3051 .C36 1896 (2 copies). Copy 2, Volume 1 inscribed
"Donna R. Cole, S. F., 1896" and "Averill Cole Howland". Copy 2, Volume
2 inscribed "Donna R. Cole, S. F."
Cape Cod. New York: Heritage Press, 1968. Printers Collection.
Z239 .H46 T46
Cape Cod: Henry David Thoreau's Complete Text with the Journey Recreated
in Pictures. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. PS3051 .C36 1985
The Maine Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. PS3046 .A1
1864 (3 copies). Copy 1 inscribed "C. N. Arnold, May 31st, 1864". Copy
2 inscribed "E. M. Babb, Eastport".
The Maine Woods. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1871. PS3046
.A1 1871. Inscribed "Ellwood Cooper, Santa Barbara, 1872".
The Maine Woods. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1892 and 1893. PS3046 .A1 1893
The Maine Woods. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972.
PS3046 .A1 1972
The Annotated Walden: Walden; or, Life in the Woods. New York:
Clarkson N. Potter, 1970. PS3048 .A1 1970
Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. PS3048 .A1 1864. Inscribed
"J. B. Townsend, Dec. 13, 1864, from AET".
Walden. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. PS3048 .A1 1865. Inscribed
"J. Frank Pickering".
Walden. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1897. PS3048 .A1 1897
Walden. New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1910. PS3048 .A1 1910g
Walden. Cleveland, OH: World Publishing, 1942. Sweet Collection
PS3048 .A1 1942. Inscribed "Robt B. Sweet".
Walden. Introduction by Edward Abbey. Salt Lake City: G. M. Smith,
1981. PS3048 .A1 1981. Inscribed "Edward Abbey".
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.
PS3048 .A1 1854 (3 copies). Copy 1 inscribed "[Bethion Monroe to S.
C. Coomley]". Copy 2 inscribed "E. C. Guild".
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. 2 vols. Boston: Bibliophile Society,
1909. PS3048 .A1 1909b. Volume 2 inscribed "[Dealfys]".
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1927. Printers Collection Z239 .H6 T5
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. New York: The MacMillan Company,
1929. PS3048 .A1 1929. Inscribed "Charles B. Wheeler II, Joshua B. Richmond,
January 17, 1941".
Walden or, Life in the Woods. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930.
PS3048 .A1 1930
Walden or, Life in the Woods. New York: For the Heritage Press,
1939. PS3048 .A1 1939. Inscribed "Adeline K. Dennis".
Walden or Life in the Woods. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press,
[1956]. PS3048 .A1 1956
Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Franklin Center, PA: Franklin
Library, 1976. PS3048 .A1 1976
The Illustrated A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1983. PS3049 .A1 1983
A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers. London: Walter Scott
Limited, 1889. PS3049 .A1 1889
A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers. London: Walter Scott
Limited, [1909]. PS3049 .A1 1909. Inscribed "[G Scholes], Melrose N.
B. '05".
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston:
J. Munroe; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1849. PS3049 .A1 1849 (3 copies).
Copy 1 inscribed "Daniel Bowen Hingham, Nov. 1863". Copy 2 inscribed
"J. T. Fields", with signed manuscript letter from Thoreau tipped in
(see Manuscript Material below) and newspaper clippings pasted in (the
volume also has corrections to the text made in Thoreau's hand); Copy
2 also inscribed "Francis from Mary, November 6, 1966".
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: Ticknor and
Fields, 1862. PS3049 .A1 1862
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: Ticknor and
Fields, 1868. PS3049 .A1 1868 (2 copies). Copy 1 inscribed "Ellwood
Cooper, Santa Barbara, 1872".
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. West Virginia Pulp
and Paper Co., 1966. PS3049 .A1 1966. Printers Collection Z242.5 .T45
1966. Inscribed "R. J. Holden" (volume illustrator). Copy 889 of 2,000.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Avon, CT: Limited
Editions Club, 1975. PS3049 .A1 1975
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1980. PS3049 .A1 1980
PRINTED MATERIAL: ESSAYS
"Autumnal Tints." Atlantic Monthly (October 1862). PS3051 .A873
1862
"An Excursion to Canada." Putnam's Monthly (January 1853). PS3050
.A3 1853
Huckleberries. Iowa City: Windhover Press of the University of
Iowa, 1970. Printers Collection Z239 .W53 T38
"Life without Principle." Atlantic Monthly (October 1863). PS3051
.L5 1863. Inscribed "G. D. Monroe".
"Night and Moonlight." Atlantic Monthly (November 1863). PS3051
.N5 1863. Inscribed "P. B. Rivers".
Night and Moonlight. New York: H. R. Brown, 1921. Printers Collection
Z239 .R8 T42. Inscribed "G. P. Winship".
Night and Moonlight. New York: H. R. Brown, 1921. Printers Collection
Z239 .R8 T42 1921
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. London: Simple Life Press,
1905. PS3051 .C52 1905
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. New Haven, CT: Carl and Margaret
Rollins, 1928. Printers Collection Z239 .R6 T5
A Plea for Captain John Brown: Read to the Citizens of Concord, Massachusetts
on Sunday Evening, October Thirtieth, Eighteen Fifty-Nine. Boston:
D. R. Godine, 1969. Wyles Collection E451 .T46
The Seasons. Ysleta, TX: Edwin B. Hill, 1943. PS3051 .S3 1943
The Service. Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed, 1902. PS3051 .S4 1902
Sir Walter Raleigh. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1905. PS3047
.A1 1905
The Succession of Forest Trees: An Address Read to the Middlesex
Agricultural Society in Concord, Sept. 1860. Canada: T. M., 1956.
PS3045 .A3 1956
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans. New York: W. E. Rudge,
1930. Printers Collection Z239 .R8 M332 1930
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the
Harivansa of Langlois. New York: W. E. Rudge, 1931. PK3633 .H3 T5
1931
The Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans: A Translation from the
Harivansa of Langlois. New York: W. E. Rudge, 1932. Printers Collection
Z239 .R8 M332 1932. Inscribed "Keith B. Wiley, 1952".
"Walking." Atlantic Monthly (June 1862). PS3051 .W35 1862. Inscribed
"E. P. Pleasants".
Walking. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1914. Printers Collection
Z239 .R54 T48. Copy 418 of 550.
Walking. Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press in Association with the
Friends of the Library of the University of California, Santa Barbara,
1988. PS3051 .W35 1988. Copy 8 of 150.
Wild Apples. Atlantic Monthly (November 1862). PS3051
.W54 1862
A Winter Walk. Bangor, ME: Theodore Press/Sarah Books, 1991.
Printers Collection Z239 .T4284 T46 1991. Inscribed "Michael Alpert".
Copy 13 of 140.
A Yankee in Canada. Montreal: Harvest House, 1961. Wyles Collection
F1052 .T48 1961
PRINTED MATERIALS: JOURNAL VOLUMES
Journal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981-. PS3053
.A2 1981. Vols. 1-4; volumes 1 and 2 inscribed "Elizabeth Hall Witherell
10/8/90".
PRINTED MATERIALS: LETTERS
"A Bit of Unpublished Correspondence between Henry Thoreau and Isaac
Hecker." Atlantic Monthly (September 1902). PS3053 .A3 1902
"The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: The Dial Period." Atlantic Monthly.
(May 1892). PS3053 .A3 1892
"The Emerson-Thoreau Correspondence: Emerson in Europe." Atlantic
Monthly (June 1892). PS3053 .A3 1892b
Henry D. Thoreau to Elizabeth Oakes Smith. Ysleta, TX: Edwin
B. Hill, 1942. PS3053 .A47
Henry D. Thoreau to George William Curtis. Ysleta, TX: Edwin
B. Hill, 1942. PS3053 .A42 1942
Letters to Various Persons. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865.
PS3053 .A3 1865 (9 copies). Copy 4 inscribed "J & F Larkin, Annie, September
19, 1865". Copy 6 inscribed "Emma Louise Jenners, Deny N. H., October
16, 1865".
Some Unpublished Letters of Henry D. and Sophia E. Thoreau: A Chapter
in the History of a Still-Born Book. Jamaica, Queensborough, NY:
The Marion Press, 1899. PS3053 .A3 1899. Inscribed "Sam'l A. Jones to
Junius E. Beal". Copy 110 of 150.
"Thoreau and His English Friend Thomas Cholmondeley." Atlantic Monthly
(December 1893). PS3053 .A3 1893
PRINTED MATERIALS: POEMS
Poems of Nature. London: John Lane; Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1895. PS3041 .S3. Inscribed "H. S. H. Waylen, 9 Nov.
1895".
Unpublished Poems. Boston: Bibliophile Society, 1907. Printers
Collection Z239 .B33 B79 1907
PRINTED MATERIALS: SELECTIONS FROM THOREAU'S WORKS
Autumn: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Boston:
Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. PS3042 .B5 (3 copies)
The Best Use and the Best Form of Books: Remarks by H. D. Thoreau
and F. W. Goudy. Berkeley: University of California Press, April
8, 1958. Printers Collection Z239 .T6 T3676 1958
Clear Sky, Pure Light: Encounters with Henry David Thoreau. Lincoln,
MA: Penmaen Press, 1978. PS3042 .C55 1978. Copy 36.
The Concord and the Merrimack; Excerpts from A Week on the Concord
and Merrimack Rivers. New York: Bramhall House, 1954. F72 .M7 T52
Early Spring in Massachusetts. From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881. PS3042 .B4 (2 copies).
Copy 1 inscribed "H. M. Abbott". Copy 2 inscribed "Juliet Porter, March
24, 1881" (with notes).
The Essay on Friendship. East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1903.
PS3051 .F7 1903. Inscribed "To George and Alice Bell In gratefull appreciation
of a most beautiful friendship W. H. Harrison, Arthur W. Harrison, Robert
D. Harrison, Hazel H. Strickler, Charles L. Harrison".
The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau, Lately Discovered among His
Unpublished Journals and Manuscripts. 2 vols. Boston: Bibliophile
Society, 1905. PS3053 .A5 S2
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1927. PS3053 .A25 1927
The Heart of Thoreau's Journals. New York: Dover Publications,
1961. PS3053 .A25 1961
House-Warming and Winter Visitors: From Walden; or, Life in the
Woods. Camden, NJ: Haddon Craftsmen, 1936. PS3048 .A35 1936. Printers
Collection Z239 .B1 T46 1936
"In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World." San Francisco:
Sierra Club, 1962. Oversize TR660 .T5
The Living Thoughts of Thoreau. New York: Longmans,
Green and Co., 1939. PS3042 .D7
Men of Concord and Some Others as Portrayed in the Journal of Henry
David Thoreau. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936. PS3053 .A25 1936
(2 copies)
The Moon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Printers Collection
Z239.2 .S48 T46 1927
"Mountains." The Lady's Friend. Vol. 1 (January to December
1864). Philadelphia: Deacon & Peterson, 1864. PS3051 .M68 1864
Of Friendship: An Essay from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack
Rivers. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1901. Printers Collection
Z239 .H6 T45
On Partridges: Selections from His Journal, 1851-1860. Isaac
Oelgart, 1984. PS3053 .A25 1984. Inscribed "Isaac Oelgart, Darrell Hyder".
A Part of the Essay on Walking. Boston: Privately printed for
T. Todd, 1923. PS3051 .W3525 1923
A Pig Tale. New Fairfield, CT: Bruce Rogers, 1947. Printers Collection
Z239 .R58 T56 1947
Soundings: Selections from the Journals and Other Works of Henry
Thoreau. Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1964. Printers Collection
Z239 .H48 T46 1964
Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1884. PS3042 .B45. Inscribed "Mrs. Aaron
[L.] Pennington".
Summer: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. London: T. Fisher
Unwin, 1884. PS3042 .B45 1884 (2 copies)
Thoreau Country: Photographs and Text Selections from the Works of
H. D. Thoreau. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1975. Oversize PS3042
.G59 1975
Thoreau on Man & Nature. Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press,
c1960. Printers Collection Z239 .P4 T46 1960
Thoreau: Philosopher of Freedom: Writings on Liberty. New York:
The Vanguard Press, 1930. PS3042 .M2
Thoreau, Reporter of the Universe. New York: The John Day Company,
1939. PS3042 .S8
Thoreau Today: Selections from His Writings. New York: Comet
Press Books, 1957. PS3042 .M6
Thoreau's Cape Cod, with the Early Photographs of Herbert
W. Gleason. Barre, MA: Barre Publishers, 1971. PS3051 .C362 1971
Thoreau's Thoughts: Selections from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890. PS3042 .B6
Thoreau's Turtle Nest: From the Journal Notes of Henry David Thoreau.
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1967. PS3053 .A25 1967b
Thoreau's Walden, A Photographic Register. New York:
Knopf, 1946. PS3048 .K3. Inscribed "Irma V. Barrows".
Through the Year with Thoreau. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin Company, 1917. PS3042 .G6. Inscribed "Doris 12/81-22".
Two Fragments from the Journals. Iowa City: Windhover Press of
the University of Iowa, 1968. Printers Collection Z239 .W53 T4
Walden: The Ponds. New York: Comet Press, 1949. Printers Collection
Z239 .C563 T46 1949
Where I Lived & What I Lived For. The Golden Cockerel Press,
1924. Printers Collection Z239.2 .G58 T467 1924. Copy 241 of 380.
The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau. Covelo,
CA: Yolla Bolly Press, 1986. PS3042 .B64 1986b. Inscribed "Robert Bly,
Michael McCurdy". Copy 61 of 85.
Winter Animals, an Essay. Westport, CT: The Georgian Press, 1928.
Printers Collection Z239 .G4 T5
Winter: From the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1887, 1888. PS3042 .B55. Inscribed "Juliet
Porter from A.G.C. Dec. 25th, 1887".
The Wisdom of Thoreau. New York: Philosophical Library, 1967.
PS3042 .P5 1967
PRINTED MATERIALS: COLLECTIONS OF THOREAU'S WORKS
Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. London: S. Sonnenschein,
1890. Wyles Collection E449 .T492
Early Essays and Miscellanies. Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1975. PS3042 .M58 1975
Excursions. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863. PS3045 .A1 1863
(2 copies). Sweet Collection PS3045 .A1 1863
First Editions of Works of Henry David Thoreau and Others. Boston:
[s.n.], 1906. PS3042 .W66 1906
Life without Principle: Three Essays. Stanford University: J.
L. Delkin, 1946. PS3525 .I5454 Z3 T46 1946. Printers Collection Z239
.G74 T46 1946
Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau. New York: Modern
Library, 1937. PS3042 .A7
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. 11 vols. Vol. 11 only. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1893-94. PS3040 .E94
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. 20 vols. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1906. Manuscript Edition (see Manuscript
list below) (7 copies: copies 1-6, vols. 1-20; copy 7, vols. 1-14).
PS3040 .F06
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions
and Full Indexes. 11 vols. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1894,
1893. Large Paper Edition. PS3040 .E94a
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston:
Ticknor and Fields, 1866. PS3050 .A1 1866 (7 copies)
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston:
Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1869. Wyles Collection PS3042 .T5
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL
The leaves of Thoreau manuscript in Special Collections are listed by
the category of writing or title to which they relate. When Thoreau
used a leaf to draft material for more than one purpose, the leaf is listed
in each category or title. The location of each leaf is given at the end
of its entry. Seven leaves are associated with the 1906 Manuscript Edition
of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, for which a leaf of MS
was tipped into the first volume of each set. Six of these leaves are
still in place in the first volume of the set; one has been removed and
is stored separately.
"Autumnal Tints"
AMs, half leaf (written on both sides). Small Collections 311
Cape Cod
AMs, full leaf (written on one side). Originally tipped into Volume 1
of Manuscript Edition #458; now Small Collections 311
AMs, full leaf (written on one side). Tipped into Volume 1 of Manuscript
Edition #563. PS3040 .F06
"Chastity and Sensuality"
AMs, half leaf (written on both sides). Willson Collection
Journal
AMs, half leaf (written on both sides). Based on entry for October 22,
1853. Tipped into Volume 1 of Manuscript Edition #237. PS3040 .F06
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). One side based on entry for January
21, 1853; other side contains quotation from Juliette Bauer's Alexander
Von Humboldt. Small Collections 311
Letters
AMs quarter leaf (written on both sides). Note in Thoreau's hand dated
August 15, 1859, signed by his mother Cynthia, authorizing payment to
him of a stock dividend; transcription of information about blueberry
bushes, dated October 17, 1850. Willson Collection
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). Draft letter to John D. Milner,
dated November 20, 1854; draft letter to C. B. Bernard, dated November
20, 1854; index of topics for "Life without Principle"; material related
to "Walking". Willson Collection
ALs, full leaf (written on both sides). Recipient's copy of February
18, 1862, from Thoreau to his publisher James T. Fields; this is the last
letter Thoreau wrote in his own hand. Tipped into Fields's copy of the
first edition of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. PS3049
.A1 1849
"Life without Principle"
AMs, full leaf. Small Collections 311
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). Index of topics for "Life without
Principle"; material related to "Walking"; draft letter to John D. Milner,
dated November 20, 1854; draft letter to C. B. Bernard, dated November
20, 1854. Willson Collection
Natural History Notes
AMs quarter leaf (written on both sides). Transcription of information
about blueberry bushes, dated October 17, 1850; note in Thoreau's hand,
signed by his mother Cynthia, authorizing payment to him of a stock dividend,
dated August 15, 1859. Willson Collection
AMs, four leaves (written on seven sides). Notes written in pencil about
plants, their uses and the etymologies of their names, which Thoreau copied
from printed sources, primarily John Loudon's Encyclopedia of Plants
(London, 1836). Willson Collection
"The Service"
AMs, half leaf (written on both sides). Willson Collection
Walden
AMs, half leaf (written on both sides). Tipped into Volume 1 of Manuscript
Edition #147. PS3040 .F06
AMs, half leaf (written on one side). Willson Collection
"Walking"
AMs, full leaf (written on one side). Tipped into Volume 1 of Manuscript
Edition #209. PS3040 .F06
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). Tipped into Volume 1 of Manuscript
Edition #248. PS3040 .F06
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). Small Collections 312
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). Material related to "Walking";
index of topics for "Life without Principle"; draft letter to John D.
Milner, dated November 20, 1854; draft letter to C. B. Bernard, dated
November 20, 1854. Willson Collection
AMs, full leaf (written on one side). Willson Collection
"Wild Apples"
AMs, full leaf (written on both sides). Tipped into Volume 1 of Manuscript
Edition #263. PS3040 .F06
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