![]() Writing and lecturing brought Thoreau a small group of devoted fans, most notably Daniel Ricketson, an independently wealthy Quaker and abolitionist who became a faithful correspondent. A number of letters reveal the circumstances surrounding the publication of A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers in May 1849 and Walden in August 1854, as well as the essays “Resistance to Civil Government” (1849 now known as “Civil Disobedience”) and “Slavery in Massachusetts” (1854), and two series, “An Excursion to Canada” (1853) and “Cape Cod” (1855). During the period covered by this volume, Thoreau wrote the works that form the foundation of his modern reputation. Sixty-three are collected here for the first time of these, forty-three have never before been published. When completed, the edition’s three volumes will include every extant letter written or received by Thoreau-in all, almost 650 letters, roughly 150 more than in any previous edition, including dozens that have never before been published.Ĭorrespondence 2 contains 246 letters, 124 written by Thoreau and 122 written to him. ![]() ![]() This is the second volume in the first full-scale scholarly edition of Thoreau’s correspondence in more than half a century. ![]()
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