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قراءة كتاب The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume VI, Familiar Letters
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume VI, Familiar Letters
FAMILIAR LETTERS
EDITED BY F. B. SANBORN
ENLARGED EDITION
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
MDCCCCVI
COPYRIGHT 1865 BY TICKNOR AND FIELDS
COPYRIGHT 1894 AND 1906 BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | |
| I | |
| YEARS OF DISCIPLINE | |
| SKETCH OF THOREAU'S LIFE FROM BIRTH TO TWENTY YEARS | 3 |
| LETTERS TO HIS BROTHER JOHN AND SISTER HELEN | 11 |
| EARLY FRIENDSHIP AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH EMERSON AND HIS FAMILY | 34 |
| STATEN ISLAND AND NEW YORK LETTERS TO THE THOREAUS AND EMERSONS | 68 |
| II | |
| THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACHIEVEMENT | |
| CORRESPONDENCE WITH C. LANE, J. E. CABOT, EMERSON, AND BLAKE | 120 |
| III | |
| FRIENDS AND FOLLOWERS | |
| THE SHIPWRECK OF MARGARET FULLER | 183 |
| AN ESSAY ON LOVE AND CHASTITY | 198 |
| MORAL EPISTLES TO HARRISON BLAKE OF WORCESTER | 209 |
| ACQUAINTANCE AND CORRESPONDENCE WITH DANIEL RICKETSON OF NEW BEDFORD | 237 |
| EXCURSIONS TO CAPE COD, NEW BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, NEW YORK, AND NEW JERSEY | 254 |
| EXCURSIONS TO MONADNOCK AND MINNESOTA | 364 |
| LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH | 395 |
| APPENDIX: LETTERS TO ISAAC HECKER AND CALVIN H. GREENE | 403 |
| GENERAL INDEX TO THOREAU'S WORKS | 417 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| SABBATIA Carbon photograph (page 264) | Frontispiece |
| THOREAU'S BOAT-LANDING, CONCORD RIVER | Colored plate |
| HENRY D. THOREAU, FROM THE RICKETSON MEDALLION (page 263) | 1 |
| CONCORD BATTLE-GROUND | 24 |
| WALDEN WOODS | 122 |
| THE HOSMER HOUSE | 154 |
| THOREAU'S BOAT-LANDING, CONCORD RIVER | 236 |
| FROM THE SUMMIT OF MONADNOCK | 370 |
INTRODUCTION
The fortune of Henry Thoreau as an author of books has been peculiar, and such as to indicate more permanence of his name and fame than could be predicted of many of his contemporaries. In the years of his literary activity (twenty-five in all), from 1837 to 1862,—when he died, not quite forty-five years old,—he published but two volumes, and those with much delay and difficulty in finding a publisher. But in the thirty-two years after his death, nine volumes were published from his manuscripts and fugitive pieces,—the present being the tenth. Besides these, two biographies of Thoreau had appeared in America, and two others in England, with numerous reviews and sketches of the man and his writings,—enough to make several volumes more. Since 1894 other biographies and other volumes have appeared, and now his writings in twenty volumes are coming from the press. The sale of his books and the interest in his life are greater than ever; and he seems to have grown early