THOREAU, HENRY DAVID Autograph manuscript leaf, probably from his Journals. N.p., n.d. 1 page, 4to, 242 x 192 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) on pale blue bond paper, verso with partial postmark and addressed in Thoreau's hand to "David H. Thoreau Esq. Concord Mass.," the sheet neatly inlaid and bound at front of Vol. 1 of The Manuscript Edition of the Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906, 8vo, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut . THOREAU ON AUTUMN FOLIAGE "As late as the 17th some years, you may see some late red maples unexpectedly as fair and bright as ever, either scarlet or yellow. They are apparently such as grow in cool and shady places. There is no brighter and purer scarlet, often running into crimson,and no softer and clearer yellows than theirs is now--, Though the greater part of this species have now lost their leaves. Those fires which we thought dulled, if not yet put out, a week ago, seem to have burst forth again. This accounts for those trees which were seen to be green while all around them were scarlet. They but awaited their time. They were not so easily affected. They were reserved to bring up the rear."
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID Autograph manuscript leaf, probably from his Journals. N.p., n.d. 1 page, 4to, 242 x 192 mm. (9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.) on pale blue bond paper, verso with partial postmark and addressed in Thoreau's hand to "David H. Thoreau Esq. Concord Mass.," the sheet neatly inlaid and bound at front of Vol. 1 of The Manuscript Edition of the Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1906, 8vo, original cloth, t.e.g., others uncut . THOREAU ON AUTUMN FOLIAGE "As late as the 17th some years, you may see some late red maples unexpectedly as fair and bright as ever, either scarlet or yellow. They are apparently such as grow in cool and shady places. There is no brighter and purer scarlet, often running into crimson,and no softer and clearer yellows than theirs is now--, Though the greater part of this species have now lost their leaves. Those fires which we thought dulled, if not yet put out, a week ago, seem to have burst forth again. This accounts for those trees which were seen to be green while all around them were scarlet. They but awaited their time. They were not so easily affected. They were reserved to bring up the rear."
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