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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FROM "AUTUMNAL TINTS." THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862. Autograph manuscript unsigned, likely draft pages from "Autumnal Tints," his classic essay which appeared posthumously in The Atlantic in 1862,
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FROM "AUTUMNAL TINTS."
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. 1817-1862. Autograph manuscript unsigned, likely draft pages from "Autumnal Tints," his classic essay which appeared posthumously in The Atlantic in 1862, 2 pp, 8vo (245 x 193 mm), c.1861, with marginal autograph emendations and corrections.
[WITH:] The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1906.
18 volumes (of 20). 4to. Full green crushed Morocco decorated and lettered in gilt. Spines sunned, minor shelfwear, some offset to endpapers from dentelles.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate, motto "Veni, Vidi, Vici," signed Ernest [illegible], in volume 1).
AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FROM ONE OF THOREAU'S LAST AND MOST REVERED ESSAYS, "AUTUMNAL TINTS," his elegiac description of the changing colors of autumn. In early 1862, with the death of The Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell, Thoreau re-established his relationship with the publication, now under James T. Field. In a February letter, Thoreau offered to send "Autumnal Tints," asking "... I wish to have the Mss. of this article preserved, since I have no duplicate, & what I send will be culled out from a very large imperfect essay, whose integrity I wish to restore." The present manuscript seems likely discarded leaves from this larger manuscript "Autumnal Tints:" ... Indeed green begins to look as rare and interesting as any color ... very large patches of red and purple blackberry vines, whose affect however you can only appreciate by a strong & peculiar intention of the eye — i.e. you do not see them until you look for them and then they are conspicuous enough. Being curious to know how far the autumnal tints are ordinarily visible & affect the landscape— I looked carefully about at first." "Autumnal Tints," composed at the end of his life, was one of a number of posthumous essays that would appear in The Atlantic following his death, including also "Walking" and "Life Without Principle."
[WITH:] The Writings of Henry David Thoreau. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1906.
18 volumes (of 20). 4to. Full green crushed Morocco decorated and lettered in gilt. Spines sunned, minor shelfwear, some offset to endpapers from dentelles.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate, motto "Veni, Vidi, Vici," signed Ernest [illegible], in volume 1).
AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT FROM ONE OF THOREAU'S LAST AND MOST REVERED ESSAYS, "AUTUMNAL TINTS," his elegiac description of the changing colors of autumn. In early 1862, with the death of The Atlantic editor James Russell Lowell, Thoreau re-established his relationship with the publication, now under James T. Field. In a February letter, Thoreau offered to send "Autumnal Tints," asking "... I wish to have the Mss. of this article preserved, since I have no duplicate, & what I send will be culled out from a very large imperfect essay, whose integrity I wish to restore." The present manuscript seems likely discarded leaves from this larger manuscript "Autumnal Tints:" ... Indeed green begins to look as rare and interesting as any color ... very large patches of red and purple blackberry vines, whose affect however you can only appreciate by a strong & peculiar intention of the eye — i.e. you do not see them until you look for them and then they are conspicuous enough. Being curious to know how far the autumnal tints are ordinarily visible & affect the landscape— I looked carefully about at first." "Autumnal Tints," composed at the end of his life, was one of a number of posthumous essays that would appear in The Atlantic following his death, including also "Walking" and "Life Without Principle."