"I Have Sometimes Imagined a Library": Browsing the Shelves with Henry Thoreau, Featuring Christine Nelson

12jul7:00 pm8:00 pm"I Have Sometimes Imagined a Library": Browsing the Shelves with Henry Thoreau, Featuring Christine NelsonMember Event

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“I Have Sometimes Imagined a Library”: Browsing the Shelves with Henry Thoreau, Featuring Christine Nelson

Tuesday, July 12th

7:00 pm

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If Thoreau had been a Philadelphian, would he have read at the Library Company? He would have found much to engage him here. But after spending a day in Boston’s venerable libraries in 1852, he imagined a more elemental home for the books he valued: a primitive forest where literary and scientific works would be shelved side by side in crumbling natural alcoves. Join us on Thoreau’s 205th birthday as Fellowships Manager Christine Nelson explores his dynamic relationship with books and reflects on her many years as the keeper of his journal at New York’s Morgan Library & Museum—the unlikely repository of the notebooks of our nation’s most famous simplifier. Presented in association with the release of the anthology Ways of Walking (New Door Books, 2022).

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July 12, 2022 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)

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