THOREAU HENRY DAVID Manuscript unsigned from a draft of his

Sale 1930 - Lot 279

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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Manuscript, unsigned, from a draft of his essay The Dispersion of Seeds, approximately 30-lines from a portion of a page of the draft, removed from the 1906 Manuscript Edition of Thoreau's works. 2 pages, single 4 1/2x7 inch sheet; inlaid, tipped into a presentation book containing a transcription and a copy photograph. [Concord, circa 1860]

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". . . I can hardly clamber along the Grape Cliff now without getting my clothes covered with desmodium ticks . . . They will even cling to your hand as you go by. They cling like babes to the mothers' breast by instinct, craving a virgin soil - eager to descry new lands . . . There are a great many floating loose amid the buds - & washed up in the muck by the shore . . . They are probably the food of returning waterfowl - for like the seeds of the different lilies, they are ripe at the same time that the fowl return from the north."<