THOREAU HENRY DAVID Autograph Manuscript unsigned a leaf fro

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"I SHOULD DIE FROM MERE NERVOUSNESS AT THE THOUGHT OF SUCH CONFINEMENT" THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, a leaf from his journal, a fragment from his entry for September 3, 1851 discussing the importance of roaming freely over the Earth. 1 page, 4to; inlaid, horizontal fold. (MRS) Np, [3 September 1851]

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". . . [Wilkinson proposes of the footpaths in large English towns] that the people's right to them be asserted & defended--& that they be kept in a passable state at the public expense--'This' says he 'would be easily done by means of asphalt laid upon a good foundation'!!! So much for walking . . . .
"Think of man--he may be a genius of some kind--being confined to a high way & a park for his world to range in--I should die from mere nervousness at the thought of such confinement. . . ."
Published in Bradford Torrey, ed., the Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. VIII, Boston, 1906.