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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19911223
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Henry David Thoreau not only captured the cycle of natural life in his journals from Walden Pond: He left behind literal traces of nature from 150 years ago.

Professor Robert Sattelmeyer Jr., an English professor at Georgia State University, is leading a project to decipher and publish the first complete scholarly edition of Thoreau's journals.

Sattelmeyer and graduate students work mostly from photocopies of journals in which Thoreau wrote the beginnings of "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience." They also traveled to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City for a look at the original ...

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