Chapter I: 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