Alfred W. Hosmer’s “Grangerized Salt”: A Finding Aid to the Materials Added by Hosmer to the 1896 Second Edition of Henry Stephens Salt’s Life of Henry David Thoreau, 1896-1903
Vault A35, Thoreau, Unit 2
EXTENT: Two extra-illustrated (or “grangerized”) volumes (half bound in leather, with marbled paper boards).
ARRANGEMENT: Between 1896 and 1903, Alfred Winslow Hosmer gathered numerous Thoreau-related items to add to the 1896 one-volume second edition of the Life of Henry David Thoreau by British social reformer and writer Henry Stephens Salt (London: Walter Scott, Ltd.), the pages of which Hosmer mounted and bound in two volumes, incorporating the added materials. These additions relate primarily to people and places mentioned in Salt’s text. Added items are mounted on pages facing the appropriate text (preceding odd-numbered pages and following even-numbered pages). This guide reflects the order of appearance of added items in the two volumes.
BIOGRAPHY: Alfred Winslow Hosmer (1851-1903) was a lifelong resident of Concord, Massachusetts, a member of one of Concord's oldest families, and an early collector of Thoreau and photographer of Thoreau’s world. He made his living as a clerk and later owner of a dry goods store, and also as a photographer for hire. (His images capture the people, houses, institutions, and landscape of Concord.) Hosmer's intimate knowledge of Concord's people and landscapes and his early collecting of Thoreauviana allowed him to develop an in-depth knowledge of the man and his work. As a result, Hosmer formed a collaborative relationship with Thoreau scholar Dr. Samuel A. Jones of Michigan and British Thoreau biographer Henry S. Salt. Other Hosmer correspondents and acquaintances devoted to creating awareness of Thoreau’s life, writings, and influence included Daniel Ricketson, H. G. O. Blake, A. H. Japp (pseudonym: H. A. Page), and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Because Hosmer was in Concord and Jones was in Michigan, Jones maintained contact with Concord through Hosmer, relying on Hosmer’s native knowledge to enrich his understanding of Thoreau and Thoreau’s world. Hosmer spent untold hours walking in Thoreau’s footsteps and photographing the places discussed in Thoreau’s writings. His “grangerization” of Salt's revised edition of the Life of Henry David Thoreau (1896) advanced Thoreau scholarship at a time when Thoreau’s reputation was only beginning to develop.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The first edition of Henry Stephens Salt’s Life of Henry David Thoreau appeared in 1890. Published in London by Walter Scott, Ltd., the second edition appeared in 1896, containing new material supplied to Salt by Alfred Winslow Hosmer and Samuel Arthur Jones. This unique copy of the second edition of Salt was extensively extra-illustrated by Hosmer, who expanded the single volume of the work as printed into two volumes. Hosmer added photographs (many of them his own work), annotating them by hand with quotations from Thoreau. He also incorporated letters and pieces of manuscript. The volumes include a manuscript school composition by Thoreau ("The Seasons"), a certificate of surveying by Thoreau, receipts signed by Thoreau's father John, and letters to various correspondents by H.G.O. Blake, W.E. Channing, R.W. Emerson, Horace Greeley, Parker Pillsbury, Daniel Ricketson, Maria Thoreau, Sophia Thoreau, and others. Hosmer also bound in his own manuscript indexes to the added materials in the two volumes.
SOURCE OF ACQUISITION: Presented to the Concord Free Public Library in 1949 by Herbert Buttrick Hosmer as part of the Thoreau library of Alfred Winslow Hosmer.
ADDITIONAL FORMS AVAILABLE: Microfilm of the complete contents of the two volumes and copy prints from the original photographs are available for reference use in the Concord Free Public Library.
NOTES AND COMMENTS: Accessioned December 5, 1949 (accession numbers 101146-101147). Preservation treatment (including deacidification and partial encapsulation) undertaken at NEDCC, 1977.
ASSOCIATED MATERIAL: The following are all found in the William Munroe Special Collections of the Concord Free Public Library: Alfred W. Hosmer Collection of Glass Plate Images Primarily of Concord, Mass.; Correspondence to Alfred Winslow Hosmer Relating to Henry David Thoreau; the Thoreau Library of Alfred Winslow Hosmer; Hosmer photographic albums and mounted prints.
REFERENCES: Fritz Oehlschlaeger and George Hendrick, editors, Toward the Making of Thoreau’s Modern Reputation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979); Thomas Blanding, Alfred Hosmer’s Grangerized Life and Writings of H. D. Thoreau [by] Henry S. Salt ([Concord: S. Chapin, 1996]).
PROCESSED BY: LPW and intern Peter X. Accardo; finding aid prepared December 2006; edited and mounted February 2012.
FINDING AID
Numbering system for items added by Hosmer: The first digit of each item number refers to the extra-illustrated volume as bound by Hosmer (Vol. 1 including through page 124 of Salt, Vol. 2 from page 125 to the end). The second digit refers to the page number in Salt illustrated by the added item described in the finding aid. When present, the third digit refers to an additional item in a sequence of multiple items inserted between pages.
Hosmer negative numbers: Numbers for Hosmer images (e.g. “Hosmer IV.86”) refer to glass plate negatives in the Alfred W. Hosmer Collection of Glass Plate Negative Images Primarily of Concord, Mass. (finding aid available online at http://www.concordlibrary.org/scollect/Fin_Aids/Hosmer.html). If no negative number for a Hosmer image is given, the original negative is not included in the Hosmer glass plate collections (although prints in other formats—cabinet cards, for example—may be found among other CFPL holdings).
VOLUME 1:
Prelim. blank:
Quotation: Winter.
1.[1]:
Half-title, inscribed by AWH, 1896 Nov. 1.
1.[3]:
Portrait of Henry S. Salt (1851-1903). Photograph. 9 x 6 cm. Head and shoulders, facing left, with clipped signature as caption. Quotation: Salt, Life of Thoreau.
1.[5]:
Portrait of Samuel Arthur Jones (1834-1912). Photograph. 13.5 x 9.5 cm. 1/3 length portrait, facing right, mount inscribed by Jones.
1.[5].1:
Manuscript index of inserted letters.
1.[5].2-3:
Manuscript index of inserted illustrations, A-R.
1.8.1:
Manuscript index of inserted illustrations, S-W.
1.9.1:
Manuscript index of sources of captions.
1.10:
“House in which Henry D. Thoreau was born July 12. 1817.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.5 cm. Hosmer III.195. Quotation: Familiar Letters.
1.12:
Portrait of John Thoreau, Sr. (1787-1859). Photograph by AWH of daguerreotype. 9 x 5.7 cm. Head and shoulders. Hosmer IV.80. Quotations: Familiar Letters; Daniel Ricketson and His Friends. Pasted to same page: Photograph by AWH of silhouette portrait of Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau (1787-1872), in round frame. 11.5 x 10.3 cm. Head and shoulders, looking right. Hosmer IV.53.
1.12.1:
Receipt, John Thoreau to Moses Maynard, [1840] Dec. 2. See also added item 1.48.1 in Grangerized Salt.
1.13:
Birthplace of Henry David Thoreau. Photograph by AWH of pen and ink sketch (1897) by Mary Wheeler. 2.9 x 4.6 cm. Mounted on p. 13, lower left corner. Hosmer III.197- 199. See also added item 2.200.6 in the grangerized Salt.
1.14:
One photograph of two silhouette portraits, in rectangular frames: Mary Jones Dunbar Minot (1748-1830), head and shoulders, looking right; Jonas Minot (1735-1813), head and shoulders, looking left. 11.5 x 17 cm. Hosmer IV.45.
1.16:
“Egg Rock.” Photograph by AWH. 11.5 x 18.5 cm. Hosmer I.57. Quotation: Summer.
1.17:
Manuscript correction (made directly on printed page): p. 17, line 22, for Anursack, read Anursnac.
1.18:
“View of Nashawtuc Hill in Spring.” Photograph by AWH. 11.9 x 18.9 cm. Hosmer I.44. Quotation: Early Spring.
1.20:
Portrait of Horace R. Hosmer (1830-1894). Photograph. 14.3 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders, facing left, with clipped signature as caption. Quotations: Letter, H. R. Hosmer to S. A. Jones, in Inlander, 1893 Feb.; H. R. Hosmer, Concord Enterprise, 1893 Apr. 22.
1.20.1:
Letter, Horace R. Hosmer to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1893 May 25.
1.22.1:
Letter, Sophia E. Thoreau to Daniel Ricketson, [1863] May 18.
1.22.2:
Letter (copy), George A. Thatcher to Daniel Ricketson, 1876 Oct. 9.
1.22.3:
Portrait of Helen L. Thoreau (1812-1849). Photograph by AWH of daguerreotype. 9.5 x 5.8 cm. Half length, seated in chair. Hosmer IV.54. Quotation: Familiar Letters. Pasted to same page: Portrait of Sophia E. Thoreau (1819-1876). Photograph by AWH of daguerreotype. 9.7 x 6.3 cm. Header and shoulders, looking slightly left. Hosmer IV.83. Quotation: Letter from Sophia E. Thoreau, to Calvin H. Greene. Rochester, Mich.
1.22.4:
Letter, Horatio F. Allen to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1892 May 14.
1.22.5:
Manuscript, “The Seasons,” by Henry David Thoreau.
1.22.6:
Manuscript, “Order of Declamation.”
1.24:
Engraved silhouette of Ezra Ripley (1751-1841) by W. D. Stratton, from: By-Laws of Corinthian Lodge, of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons (Concord: Benjamin Tolman, 1859). 20 x 10.7 cm. Full length, looking right. Quotation: Familiar Letters.
1.26:
“Fairhaven Bay from the Ledge.” Photograph by AWH. 11.2 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.12. Quotation: Autumn.
1.28:
“Fairhaven Cliffs.” Photograph, undated. 10.5 x 18.5 cm. Hosmer I.26. Quotation: Summer.
1.30:
“Pleasant Meadow.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.27. Quotation: Walden.
1.32:
“Boulder Field.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 17.8 cm. Quotation: Summer.
1.34:
“Old Road to Nine Acre Corner.” Photograph by AWH. 11.5 x 18.3 cm. Hosmer II.18. Quotation: Excursions.
1.36:
“Fairhaven Cliffs from the Ledge.” Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.73. Quotation: Autumn.
1.36.1:
Printed advertisement, John Thoreau & Co., Concord, Massachusetts, [1844].
1.38:
Portrait of Mrs. Prudence Bird Ward. Photograph by AWH of miniature, in frame. 9.3 x 5.8 cm. Head and shoulders, looking left. Hosmer IV.84. Pasted to same page: Portrait of Miss Prudence Ward. Photograph by AWH of carte de visite. 9.3 x 5.5 cm. Head and shoulders, looking left. Hosmer IV.86. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
1.42:
Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). From Foss photograph, 1873. 14.7 x 10 cm. Head and shoulders, facing left, with clipped signature as caption. Quotation: Familiar Letters.
1.42.1:
Letter, Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau, 1840 Feb 15.
1.44:
Portrait of A. Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). Photograph. 14.8 x 10 cm. Head and shoulders, facing left, with clipped signature as caption. Quotation: Alcott, Concord Days.
1.45:
Marginal annotation (made directly on printed page), p. 45, line 11 (the word “Zenobia” underlined): “no!”
1.46:
“Emerson’s House. Thoreau lived here from 1841 to 1843 and again in 1848.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 19 cm. Quotation: Familiar Letters.
1.48:
Oil portrait of John Thoreau, Jr. (1815-1842). Photograph by AWH. 13.8 x 9.7 cm. Head and shoulders, looking slightly left. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
1.48.1:
Receipt, John Thoreau, Jr., to Moses Maynard, 1840 July 29. See also item 1.12.1 in grangerized Salt.
1.50:
“Old Manse.” Photograph by AWH. 11.2 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer III.123. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
1.52:
“Corner Spring.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.8 cm. Quotation: Autumn.
1.54:
Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864). Print of photograph [original by Mathew Brady, 1862?]. 13.3 x 8.7 cm. Half length, at table looking left. Quotations: Hawthorne, American Note-Books.
1.54.1:
Letter, Ralph Waldo Emerson to Henry David Thoreau, 1843 Feb. 12.
1.56:
“The Cottage on the Hill. W. E. Channing’s.” Photograph by AWH. Hosmer III.141. 11.5 x 19.3 cm. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
1.58:
“Fairhaven Bay.” Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.21. Quotations: Summer.
1.60:
Portrait of Horace Greeley (1811-1872). Photograph. 11 x 7.8 cm. Head and shoulders, looking left.
1.60.1:
Letter, Horace Greeley to Henry David Thoreau, 1852 June 25.
1.62:
Portrait of Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). Photographic reproduction of engraving based on the 1846 daguerreotype held by the Houghton Library at Harvard. 13.5 x 9.8. Seated at table reading a book.
1.64:
“Walden Pond from Thoreau’s Cove.” Photograph by AWH. 10.5 x 18.2 cm. Quotations:Walden.
1.66:
“Site of House—Walden.” Photograph by AWH. 18.2 x 11.3 cm. Hosmer I.78. Quotation: Walden, 49.
1.68:
“Chair, Desk and Bed used at Walden.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Quotation: Walden.
1.70:
“Pines set out at Walden by H. D. Thoreau. Destroyed by Fire, May 18. 1896.” Photograph by AWH. 18.7 x 11.1 cm. Hosmer I.90. Quotation: Walden.
1.72:
Portrait of Joseph Hosmer (brother of Horace). Photograph. 14 x 10 cm. Head and shoulders, looking slightly right. Quotation: Joseph Hosmer, in Concord Freeman.
1.74:
“Walden from the Ledge.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.72. Quotation: Walden.
1.75:
Manuscript correction (made directly on printed page): p. 75, line 17, for with, read without.
1.76:
Manuscript correction (made directly on printed page): p. 76, line 22, delete: the son of his farmer friend. Following page: Portrait of Edmund Hosmer displayed in parlor of Hunt-Hosmer House on Lowell Road. 19 x 11.3 cm. Photograph by AWH. Hosmer IV. 31. Quotation: Walden.
1.78:
Portrait of Samuel Staples (1813-1895). Photograph by AWH. 9.3 x 10.5 cm. Half length, looking slightly right, with clipped signature as caption. Quotation: Interview with Samuel Staples.
1.80:
Portrait of Jane Thoreau (1784-1864). Photograph by AWH of daguerreotype. 9.2 x 5.8 cm. Head and shoulders. Pasted to same page: Portrait of Maria Thoreau (1794-1881). Photograph by AWH of carte de visite. Hosmer IV.82. 9.4 x 5.8 cm. Header and shoulders, with clipped signature as caption. Ms. note by AWH.
1.81:
Letter, Maria Thoreau to Prudence Ward, 1870 Jan. 17.
1.82:
“Brister’s Spring.” Photograph by AWH. 11.4 x 17.8 cm. Hosmer I.98. Quotation: Walden.
1.84:
“Cairn at Walden.” Photograph by AWH. 11.1 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.87. Quotation: Walden.
1.86:
Crayon portrait of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) by Samuel Worcester Rowse. Photograph by AWH of Rowse portrait (1854). 13.8 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders, looking slightly left. Hosmer IV.55. Quotation: Early Spring.
1.86.1:
Letter, Eben J. Loomis to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1896 June 13.
1.87:
Manuscript corrections, p. 87 (all made directly on printed page): footnote, line 4, for photograph by Critcherson, read daguerreotype by Maxham; footnote, line 5, delete (not in 1861, as has been wrongly stated); footnote, line 7, delete photograph; footnote, line 9, for photograph, read ambrotype. Manuscript note: p. 87, in margin beneath footnote, “The tintype by Critcherson of Worcester, and taken in 1861, is a copy of the Maxham daguerreotype.”
1.88:
Maxham portrait of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Photograph by AWH of Maxham daguerreotype (1856). 13.7 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders. Hosmer IV.59-IV.64, IV.65-IV.71. Quotation: Poems of Nature.
1.88.1:
Letter, Horace R. Hosmer to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1891 Feb. 27.
1.88.2:
Letter, H. G. O. Blake to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1893 Mar. 1 & 2.
1.90:
Dunshee portrait of Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Photograph by AWH of Dunshee ambrotype (1861). 13.8 x 9.7 cm. Head and shoulders. Hosmer IV.72-IV.73. Quotation: Poems of Nature.
1.90.1:
Letter, Daniel Ricketson to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1893 Feb. 23.
1.92:
“Thoreau’s Flute, Telescope and copy of Wilson’s Ornithology.” Photograph by AWH. 10.2 x 15.3 cm. Hosmer X.1. Quotations: Early Spring; Louisa M. Alcott, in Atlantic Monthly (1863 Sept.).
1.94:
“Old Marlborough Road.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.3 cm. Hosmer I.92. Quotation: Excursions.
1.94.1:
Receipt, Willard Maynard to James Quinn, undated.
1.96:
“Old Marlborough Road.” Photograph by AWH. 11.4 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer II.15. Quotations: Excursions; Winter.
1.98:
“On the Old Marlborough Road.” Photograph by AWH. 11.5 x 18.5 cm. Hosmer II.6. Quotation: Excursions.
1.100:
“Nymphaea odorata.” Photograph by AWH. 11.7 x 18.8 cm. Hosmer VIII.2. Quotation: Summer.
1.102:
“Andromeda Ponds.” Photograph by AWH. 11.4 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.96. Quotation: Autumn.
1.104:
“Emerson’s Summer House.” Photograph, undated. 9.2 x 12 cm. Quotation: Familiar Letters.
1.106:
“Flint’s Bridge.” Photograph, undated. 11.5 x 19 cm. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
1.106.1:
Letter, E. H. Russell to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1899 Sept. 26.
1.106.2:
Letter, Henry David Thoreau to H. G. O. Blake, 1849 Nov. 20.
1.106.3:
Letter, J. M. LeBrun to Alfred W. Hosmer, [1897] Dec. 27.
1.106.4:
Letter (copy), J. A. Froude to Henry David Thoreau, 1849 Sept. 3.
1.108:
“Fairhaven Bay from Baker Farm.” Photograph by AWH. 11.4 x 18 cm. Hosmer I.28. Quotation: Walden.
1.110:
Portrait of H. G. O. Blake (1816?-1898). Photograph, undated. 13.8 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders, looking left. Hosmer IV.11. Quotation: Early Spring in Massachusetts.
1.112:
“Plan of Edmund Hosmer’s Farm.” Photograph by AWH of manuscript survey by Henry David Thoreau (the original now held by the Concord Free Public Library). 11.2 x 14.5 cm. Hosmer X.2. Quotation: Winter.
1.112.1:
Ms. certificate of survey of John B. Moore’s land, in hand of and signed by Henry David Thoreau, 1857 Sept. 22.
1.114:
Portrait of Thomas Chomondeley. Photograph. 9 x 6 cm. Full length, looking left, with note regarding gift of photograph by the Rev. R. H. Chomondeley preserved. Quotation: Daniel Ricketson and his Friends.
1.114.1:
Letter, Thomas Chomondeley to Henry David Thoreau, 1855 Jan. 30.
114.2:
Note from the Rev. R. H. Cholmondeley to accompany gift of Thomas Cholmondeley photograph to AWH.
1.116:
Portrait of Daniel Ricketson (1813-1898). Photograph. 14.9 x 10.5. Head and shoulders, seated in profile, with his autograph inscription on album leaf: “Dan.l Ricketson, A friend of the good and highly gifted Concord (Mass.) seer, Henry David Thoreau.”
1.116.1:
Letter, Daniel Ricketson to “Gabriel,” 1856 Mar. 7.
1.116.2:
Letter, Henry David Thoreau to Daniel Ricketson, 1856 Sept. 23.
1.116.3:
Letter, Daniel Ricketson to “Dear T.,” undated.
1.116.4:
Letter, Daniel Ricketson to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1896 Oct. 21.
1.118:
Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Photograph. 13.5 x 9.6. Head and shoulders.
1.120:
“Ricketson Shanty. Brooklawn New Bedford, Mass.” Photograph. 8 x 8 cm. Quotations: Familiar Letters.
1.122:
“Nut Meadow Brook.” Photograph by AWH. 11.1 x 18.3 cm. Hosmer I.101. Quotation: Early Spring.
1.124:
“White Pond.” Photograph by AWH. 10.9 x 18.7 cm. Quotation: Walden.
VOLUME 2:
Frontispiece:
“Minott House.” Photograph by AWH. 11.1 x 18.8 cm. Quotation: Autumn.
2.126:
Photograph of William Ellery Channing (1817-1901). Photograph. 15 x 10.5 cm. Head and shoulders, looking left. Quotation: William Ellery Channing, Thoreau: The Poet-Naturalist.
2.126.1:
Letter, William Ellery Channing to Miss Leavitt, 1900 May 24.
2.128:
Portrait of Louisa Dunbar (1785-1866). Photograph by AWH of original photograph. 10.5 x 6.7 cm. Head and shoulders. Hosmer IV.20. Ms. note by AWH.
2.130:
Portrait of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911). Photograph. 14 x 10 cm. Head and shoulders, looking right, album mount signed and inscribed: “Nothing in the history of literature is more encouraging to the sincere & conscientious writer than the steady growth of Thoreau’s reputation and influence . . . [Latin quote]. Thomas Wentworth Higginson Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 15,1896.”
2.130.1:
Letter, H. G. O. Blake to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1895 Aug. 31.
2.130.2:
Letter, Henry David Thoreau to H. G. O. Blake, 1858 June 1. With added note by Blake, written in ink on blank p. [3] of note: “(The words below are copied from the concluding fragment of this note wh. I have cut & put into the post office to-day for E. H. Shannon, Box 194 P. O. New York City, as an autograph. Oct. 19, 1888. H. G. O. Blake) and ‘I trust that I shall meet you at Troy as agreed on H. D. T.’”
2.136:
Pine tree. Photograph by AWH. 19 x 11.2 cm. Hosmer VIII.1. Quotation: Maine Woods.
2.138:
Portrait of John Brown (1800-1859). Photograph. 14 x 10 cm. Half length. Quotation: Miscellanies.
2.140:
Portrait of John Burroughs (1837-1921). Photograph. 13.8 x 9.8 cm. Half length, seated, album mount signed and inscribed: “Thoreau affords a diet to the mind like that of fruits & nuts to the body. John Burroughs Nov 21, 1896.”
2.142:
Portrait of Horace Mann, Jr. (1844-1868). Photograph by AWH of carte de visite. 8.8 x 5.4 cm. Half length, seated at table. Hosmer IV.44. AWH’s ms. note: “Horace Mann Jr. Who accompanied Thoreau on his trip to Minnesota in 1861.”
2.144:
Portrait of George William Curtis (1824-1892). Photograph. 14.4 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders, with clipped signature as caption. Quotation: George William Curtis, Homes of American Authors.
2.146:
Portrait of Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898). Photograph. 14 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders, with Pillsbury’s signature on album mount.
2.146.1:
Letter, Parker Pillsbury to Alfred W. Hosmer, 1895 Aug. 27. Written on the three blank leaves of an offprint of Pillsbury’s article “The Destiny of the Nation.”
2.146.2:
Note, Parker Pillsbury to “My dear Sir,” 1896 July 25.
2.146.3:
Manuscript, Parker Pillsbury’s reminiscences of Thoreau, as told in 1883 and transcribed by Mary Bartlett Harris.
2.148:
Thoreau family plot in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 16.5 cm. Hosmer VIII.14. Quotation: S. A. Jones, The Inlander, 1893 Feb.
2.150:
“House in which Thoreau died.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer III.90. Quotation: Autumn.
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2.152:
“The Hemlocks.” Photograph by AWH. 18.8 x 11.3 cm. Hosmer I.46. Quotation: Summer.
2.154:
Portrait of Moncure D. Conway (1832-1907). Photograph. 14 x 9.8 cm. Half length, seated, with clipped signature as caption. Quotation: Moncure D. Conway, Emerson at Home and Abroad.
2.156:
“Muleteer’s Path. Baker Farm.” Photograph by AWH. 11.4 x 19 cm. Hosmer II.14. Quotation: Autumn.
2.158:
“Walden Pond. A reduced plan. 1846.” Manuscript copy by AWH of Thoreau’s survey of Walden Pond as included (as a plate) in the first edition of Walden (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854). Quotation: Walden.
2.160:
“Battle Ground. Concord.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer VI.28. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
2.162:
“The Town from Brister’s Hill.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.4. Quotation: Summer.
2.164:
“In the Deep Cut.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.8 cm. Hosmer I.15. Quotation: Autumn.
2.166:
Portrait of Alexander H. Japp (1839-1905). Photograph. 14.8 x 10 cm. Head and shoulders, facing left, with clipped signature from letter as caption.
2.168:
“Thoreau’s Cove. Walden.” Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.75. Quotation: Walden.
2.[170]:
“Great Meadows.” Photograph showing Daniel Chester French on horseback in Great Meadows. 11.2 x 18.2 cm. Hosmer IV.27. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
2.172:
Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). Photograph. 13.8 x 10 cm. Half length, seated. Quotation: Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books.
2.174:
“Concord River and Nashawtuc Hill from Red Bridge.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.62. Quotation: Familiar Letters.
2.176:
“Concord River from Nashawtuc.” Photograph by AWH. 11.5 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.56. Quotation: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
2.178:
Portrait of Theophilus Brown (1811-1879). Photograph. 14.5 x 10.3 cm. Half length, seated, with clipped signature (“Theo. Brown”) as caption.
2.178.1:
Letter, Theophilus Brown to Daniel Ricketson, 1869 Feb. 21.
2.178.2:
Letter (copy), Theophilus Brown to Daniel Ricketson, 1868 Jan. 18.
2.178.3:
Letter, Theophilus Brown to Alfred W. Hosmer, undated.
2.180:
“On the Virginia Road.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer II.20. Quotation: Excursions.
2.182:
Portrait of F. B. Sanborn (1831-1917). Photograph. 14.8 x 10.1 cm. Head and shoulders, in profile; mount signed and dated November 1896.
2.184:
“Dome [i.e. Dove] Rock.” Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.54. Quotation: Poems of Nature.
2.186:
“Lee’s Cliff. Fairhaven Cliffs.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.4 cm. Hosmer I.11. Quotations: Autumn.
2.188:
“Clam-Shell Hill.” Photograph by AWH. 11.2 x 18.3 cm. Hosmer I.31.
2.190:
Portrait of James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). Photograph. 13.5 x 8.7 cm. Head and shoulders. Quotations: James Russell Lowelll, in Massachusetts Quarterly Review (1849 Dec.); Lowell, My Study Windows.
2.192:
Portrait of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894) in old age. Photograph by AWH, [ca. 1886/1887]. 13.5 x 10 cm. Seated outdoors in rocking chair, with signature clipped from letter as caption.
2.194:
Portrait of Edward Carpenter (1844-1929). Photograph. 9.5 x 6 cm. Head and shoulders, looking left.
2.196:
“On the Virginia Road.” Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer II.19. Quotation: Poems of Nature.
2.198:
“Dugan Desert.” Photograph by AWH. 11.4 x 18.7 cm. Hosmer I.13.
2.200:
“Front Door and Stairway of the House in which Henry D. Thoreau was born.” Photograph by AWH. 11.3 x 11.2 cm.
2.200.1:
Portrait of Charles C. Abbott (1843-1919). Photograph. 13.7 x 9.7 cm. Head and shoulders, looking slightly left. Mount inscribed, signed, and dated 1897 Feb. 5.
2.200.2:
Portrait of the Rev. C. A. Cressy. Photograph. 13.5 x 9.8 cm. Head and shoulders, looking right. Mount inscribed, signed, and dated 1891 Mar. 27.
2.200.3:
“Cairn at Walden.” Photograph by AWH. 10.9 x 18.6 cm. Quotation: Walden.
2.200.4:
“Walden in Winter.” Photograph by AWH. 11 x 18.7 cm. Quotation: Walden.
2.200.5:
“Stairway in Emerson’s Summer House.” Photograph by AWH of image in May Alcott’s Concord Sketches (Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869). 12.2 x 9 cm.
2.200.6:
“Thoreau’s Birthplace.” Photograph by AWH of pen and ink sketch (1897) by Mary Wheeler. 10.7 x 17.8 cm. See also item 1.13 in the grangerized Salt.
2.200.7:
“Thoreau’s House at Walden.” Photograph by AWH of sketch by Sophia E. Thoreau, from which the illustrative vignette on the title-page of the first edition of Thoreau’s Walden (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854) was engraved. 8.9 x 7.5 cm.
2.200.8:
Manuscript leaf containing quotations from Thoreau’s writings, dated 1891 Mar. 25 and initialed by Calvin H. Greene.
2.200.9:
Portrait of Calvin H. Greene (1817-1898). Photograph, inscribed by Greene. 14 x 9.3 cm. Head and shoulders, with eighteen-line reminiscence of Thoreau by Greene, dated 1898 Jan. 31, as caption.
2.200.10:
Walton Ricketson medallion portrait (1879) of Henry David Thoreau. Photograph. Mount inscribed by the artist to Alfred W. Hosmer, dated 1897.
2.200.11:
Walton Ricketson bust (1898) of Henry David Thoreau. Photograph by AWH. Mount inscribed by Alfred W. Hosmer, dated 1898. Hosmer IV.74.
2.200.12:
“Near Thoreau’s Cove Walden.” Photograph by AWH. 18.9 x 11.2 cm. Hosmer I.76.
2.200.13:
“Pines in rear of Site of Thoreau’s Shanty.” Photograph by AWH. 18.7 x 11.8 cm. Hosmer I.89. Quotation: Autumn.
2.200.14:
“Looking Southwest from Fair Haven Hill.” Photograph by AWH. 11.8 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.30. Quotation: Autumn.
2.200.15:
“Looking South from Fair Haven Hill.” Photograph by AWH. 11.5 x 19 cm. Quotation: Autumn.
2.200.16:
Portrait of E. H. Russell (1836-1917). Photograph. 13.9 x 9.7 cm. Head and shoulders, looking right; mount inscribed and dated 1899 Sept. 8. by Russell.
2.200.17:
“Parkman House.” Photograph of 1860s photograph. 12.3 x 19 cm. Quotations: Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Familiar Letters. Note: AWH’s caption beneath the Parkman House has misled scholars to misidentify the Nathan Brooks House (center of image) as the Parkman House (directly right of Brooks House).
2.200.18:
“Goose Pond.” Photograph by AWH. 11.7 x 19 cm. Hosmer I.105.
2.200.19:
“Thoreau’s Diaries.” Photograph by AWH. 24.5 x 19 cm. Printed on image: “Copyrighted by A. W. Hosmer, Concord, Mass.” Hosmer X.3.
2.200.20:
An open volume of Thoreau’s journals. Photograph by AWH. 24.5 x 19 cm. Printed on image: “Copyrighted by A. W. Hosmer, Concord, Mass.” Hosmer X.5.
2.200.21:
An open volume of Thoreau’s journals. Photograph by AWH. 24.5 x 19 cm. Printed on image: “Copyrighted by A. W. Hosmer, Concord, Mass.” Hosmer X.6.
2.200.22-26:
Blank leaves.
2.200.27:
Manuscript index leaf, A- I.
2.202:
Manuscript index leaf, J-T.
2.204:
Manuscript index leaf, T-W.
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