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See Wendell Glick, "Thoreau and the 'Herald of Freedom,'" New England Quarterly, 22 (1949), pp. 193-204. Hereafter cited as Glick.

H. D. T., "Herald of Freedom," Dial, April 1844, p. 507. Hereafter cited as D, by page number (D, 507).

For a detailed discussion of the writing of Thoreau's first book, see the author's Historical Introduction to A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, ed. Carl Hovde et al. (1980). Hereafter cited as W, by page number.

Glick, p. 197. See also Louis Filler, "Parker Pillsbury: An Anti-Slavery Apostle," New England Quarterly, 19 (1946), especially pp. 324-327.

The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. IX (1843-1847), ed. Ralph H. Orth and Alfred R. Ferguson (1971), p. 204.

A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (Concord, N. H.: J. R. French, 1847 [publisher's notice is dated June 24, 1847]). For a complete bibliographical description, see Walter Harding, Emerson's Library (1967), p. 231.

The leaf of notes, plus two leaves of fair-copy material, all of the same paper Thoreau used for the first draft of Walden and the second draft of A Week, is preserved in the Houghton Library, bMS Am 278.5, folder 11. For a description, see William L. Howarth, The Literary Manuscripts of Henry D. Thoreau, No. 3 in Calendars of American Literary Manuscripts (1974), p. 204. As Howarth suggests, "the paper, hand, and contents" of these leaves indicate that they were composed for A Week. Quotations from manuscripts in the Houghton Library, hereafter cited as MH, by folder number in bMS Am 278.5, are by permission of the Harvard College Library.

These leaves, which probably date from late 1847 or 1848, are in MH, 15, F.

Henry D. Thoreau, A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers (1866), p. 206. Hereafter cited as YC, by page number (YC, 206).

Henry D. Thoreau, Reform Papers, ed. Wendell Glick (1973), p. 292. Hereafter cited as RP, by page number (RP, 292).

The two surviving leaves are in MH, 11 (see above, note 7). Since Thoreau canceled a passage on the verso of the second leaf, which breaks off in mid-sentence, he probably also omitted a third leaf, which has not survived. For convenience, references to the text of the two surviving leaves are to the edited text in RP, 56-57 ("Such timely . . . merit has been overlooked.") and 298 n. ("He was born . . . near the bridge").

Thoreau's shifts in emphasis as he revised A Week are discussed in detail in the author's study, "A Complex Weave: The Writing of Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, with the Text of the First Draft" (forthcoming).