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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Thoreau, Henry David

Thoreau, Henry David
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
A Biographical Note:

Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1817.
After graduating from Harvard in 1837, he taught school, first at Concord,
then in a private school opened with his brother John. He also began keeping
his Journal upon graduation, and in 1837 made Emerson's acquaintance. During
the period after college he began giving lectures and publishing essays,
chiefly in the Week and the Dial (a Transcendental journal). He lived with the
Emersons in 1841, and again after the Walden experience (1845-47), supervising
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