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[215] UT Permissions Permission statements for items in the Introduction are included in its endnotes, rather than here. Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, 8 February and 18 March 1847, MS Am 1130.9 (25), courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Amos Bronson Alcott, Journals and Diaries of Amos Bronson Alcott, 9 March 1859, MS Am 1130.12 (29), courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. Caroline Healey Dall to [Sophia] Thoreau, 26 July 1862, Thoreau-Sewall Papers, Scrapbook HM 64967 (HT-25), courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. The Letters of Ellen Tucker Emerson, vol. 1, ed. Edith E. W. Gregg (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1982), reprinted by permission of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. Lidian Jackson Emerson to Ralph Waldo Emerson, [17 May 1848], bMS Am 1280.235 (619), courtesy of the Houghton Library, Harvard University. The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson, ed. Delores Bird Carpenter (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987), reprinted by permission of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. William H. Gilman et al., 16 vols. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960–1982), reprinted by permission of Harvard University Library. The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 10 vols., ed. Ralph L. Rusk and Eleanor M. Tilton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939–95), reprinted by permission of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Foundation. [216] Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks, ed. Claude M. Simpson (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1972), reprinted by permission of the Ohio State University Press. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Letters, 6 vols., ed. Thomas Woodson, L. Neal Smith, and Norman Holmes Pearson (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984–1987), reprinted by permission of the Ohio State University Press. Sophia Hawthorne to Annie Adams Fields, [May 1862] and 7 May [1862], Ms.C.1.11 (20, 21), courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library/ Rare Books. Samuel Storrow Higginson to Sophia E. Thoreau, 9 October 1865, Letter File 3a, H36; CAS D-2030E, courtesy of Special Collections, the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts. Edward Sherman Hoar to Edward Sandford Burgess, 30 December [18]92 and 4 January [18]93, Vault A45, Burgess Unit 1, courtesy of Special Collections , the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts. Prescott Keyes, “Henry D. Thoreau: A Disquisition,” Vault A35, H. D. Thoreau Unit 3, courtesy of Special Collections, the Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts. Amanda Mather to Helen [Mason], 9 August 1897; and Amanda Mather to Daniel Mason, n.d., 13 September 1897, 23 February 1898, and 3 August 1899, Raymond Adams Collection, Henley Library, Thoreau Institute, Lincoln, Massachusetts, courtesy of the Thoreau Society. Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley to Sophia Thayer, [1862] and [6 May 1862], MC180, folder 10, courtesy of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley to [Cynthia] Thoreau, 20 May [1862], Vault A45, Thoreau, Unit 3, courtesy of Special Collections, Concord Free Public Library, Concord, Massachusetts. Maria Thoreau to Prudence Ward, 28 February and 1 May 1849, HM 64930– 64938, Thoreau-Sewall Papers, courtesy of the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. Maria Thoreau to Mary Wilder, 18 August 1857, MS 496A, Series IV, Box 26, Folder 25, Loomis Wilder Papers, courtesy of Special Collections, Yale University , New Haven, Connecticut. Permissions Permissions [217] Mabel Loomis Todd, The Thoreau Family Two Generations Ago (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Oriole Press for the Thoreau Society, 1958), reprinted by permission of the Thoreau Society. Ellen Watson, typescript in Hillside Collection, B. IX. XIX, Pilgrim Hall Museum Archives, reprinted by permission of the Pilgrim Society Library, Plymouth, Massachusetts. ...

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