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WALTER HARDING, THOREAU EXPERT, DIES.(LOCAL)

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From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 19960414
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Byline: STAFF REPORT

GENESEO, N.Y. -- Walter R. Harding, a leading scholar on the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, died Wednesday of a stroke. He was 79.

Harding was the founding secretary and former president of the Thoreau Society in Concord, Mass. He also served as editor in chief of the standard edition of Thoreau's writings that was published by Princeton Press from 1965 to 1973.

He wrote or edited 31 books on the Massachusetts writer and naturalist, notably ``The Days of Henry Thoreau,'' ``Thoreau, Man of Concord'' and ``Henry David Thoreau, A ...

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