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BACKGROUND

How I Came Upon the Journal & How I Excerpted It.

Henry David Thoreau started his journal in 1837, soon after his mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson had inquired whether the new Harvard graduate was keeping one. In fact the first entry, dated October 22, reads: “‘What are you doing now? he asked. ‘Are you keeping a journal?’ ‘So I make my first entry to-day.’” He continued faithfully making entries for the next twenty-five years. When Thoreau died in 1862, Emerson delivered... [more]


ARCHIVE

I, II, III, IV, V, VI,
VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII

Please note: these volume numbers correspond to the academic years during which I sent the Drippings out, not to the volumes of Thoreau’s Journal.

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