THOREAU: THE POET NATURALIST.
With Memorial Verses.

(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1873) Lightly stamped maroon boards with gilt titles and decorations. (Gilt moderately bright; less so on spine). Beveled edges. 1/4-inch strip missing from head & heel of spine, which is otherwise intact. Outer hinges intact; inner hinges cracked. Whole book rather loose & shaken. 'Contents' page detached, but all pages present.

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William Ellery Channing, who had dropped out of Harvard and lived alone for a time in a cabin on the Illinois prairie, first met Thoreau at the Emerson's home in December 1840. Channing's wife, Ellen, was the sister of Margaret Fuller. Channing & Thoreau undertook numerous excursions together, and Channing was a frequent visitor at Walden Pond, once staying as a house-guest in Thoreau's cabin for two weeks, sleeping on the floor beneath Thoreau's cot. Walter Harding, in his The Days of Henry Thoreau, says of the friendship of Channing & Thoreau: "...theirs was the most intimate and most lasting friendship of Thoreau's life..."

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