# Thoreau: His Home, Friends and Books

HENRY DAVID THOREAU Photogravure of a portrait from life
* THOREAU
* HIS HOME, FRIENDS AND BOOKS
* BY
* ANNIE RUSSELL MARBLE
* "Rather than love, than money, than fame,
* give me truth." Walden
* New York
* THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
* PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1902 By Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Published October, 1902
TO MY HUSBAND
"As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend."
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
CONTENTS
* CHAP.PAGE
* I.Thoreau's Concord and Its Environs................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1
* II.The Thoreau Family................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................29
* III.The Years of Preparation................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................63
* IV.The Walden Experiment................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................101
* V.The Years of Expression................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................141
* VI.Thoreau's Philosophy and Art of Life................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................181
* VII.Thoreau and His Friends................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................215
* VIII.Thoreau as Naturalist................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................259
* IX.Thoreau's Service and Rank in Literature................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................295
* Index................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................337
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PHOTOGRAVURES
* PAGE
* Henry David Thoreau,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................(Frontispiece)
* From Nashawtuc Hill,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................6
* Birthplace of Thoreau,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................36
* Walden Pond,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................82
* Site of Thoreau' s House, Walden,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................118
* Thoreau's Main Street House,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................149
* Furniture used at Walden,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................193
* Ralph Waldo Emerson,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................223
* Harrison Gray Otis Blake,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................255
* Fairhaven Bay,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................268
* Thoreau' s Journal,................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................305
(Photographs obtained through the courtesy of Mr. Alfred Hosmer, of Concord.)
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