![]() ![]() The extraordinary seven years spanned in Correspondence: Volume 2, as Robert Hudspeth emphasizes in the Historical Introduction, ind "Thoreau engaged in the activities that created the foundation of his modern reputation" (573), most notably, the publication of "Resistance to Civil Government" in 1849 and Walden in 1854. ![]() ![]() Correspondence, Volume 1: 1834-1848 (2013) included 163 letters when Correspondence, Volume 3: 1857-1862 appears, this series will present 646 total letters, all newly edited and annotated, each volume replete with general, historical, and textual introductions and rigorous editorial apparatus (567). Especially exciting for Thoreauvians are over 40 letters to and from Thoreau that are published here for the first time. This second of three volumes in the Princeton University Press scholarly edition of the complete letters compiles the 246 extant epistles written to and received by Thoreau during seven pivotal years in his life-half are those Thoreau sent to 48 different recipients, the others those he received from 56 correspondents (628). Thoreau, Volume 2: 1849-1856 repeatedly dispels that selfcritique. In over one hundred letters, not least in the twentyeight of those sent to Blake himself, The Correspondence of Henry D. ![]() "I confess that I am a very bad correspondent," Henry Thoreau apologizes to Harrison Gray Otis Blake in December 1854 (283). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Hudspeth, with Elizabeth Hall Witherell and Lihong Xie. ![]()
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