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Did Henry David Thoreau enjoy his time at Harvard? No. Did he graduate? Yes. And here's the proof. 

 

Original Harvard Commencement Program for August 30, 1837, bearing the names of the complete graduating class including "David-Henricus Thoreau". All in Latin.

 

Habita in Comitiis Universitatis Cantabrdglae, Massachusettensis, Die Augusti XXX, Anno Salutis MDCCCXXXVII, Rerumque Publicarum Foedratarum Americae Summe Potestatis LXII

 

Translation: Held at the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts, on August 30, 1837, and of the United States of America, Supreme Power 62

 

Printed on the front side, both interior pages. Backside bears printer's mark "Cantabrigie: Typis Folsom, Wells, Et. Thurston (Cambridge: Printed by Folsom, Wells, And. Thurston)

 

Front side lists graduating class and presiding faculty, including Josiah Quincy, Harvard President, and dignitary Massachusetts Governor Edward Everett in attendance. 

 

Three page program folded in half.

Folded, the front side is 11.5" x 9. 

Unfolded 18" wide x 11.5" tall

 

Good condition with signs of soiling around the edges.

Small tear through both of the right side margins near the seam where the program was folded in half in the past. Please see upclose photograph. Small fold in bottom right corner of the cover. 

 

Blind embossed mark on the right upper cover from "Western Reserve Historical Society Cleveland" with a black ink "withdrawn" stamp ontop of it.

 

Provenance: From the private collection of a Boston Professor of archaeology and long-time Thoreau collector. 

 

 

 

Henry David Thoreau: Harvard Commencement Program

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