An original manuscript draft for a passage in Cape Cod.

by Henry David Thoreau

$7,500 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Concord, Mass., ca. 1850 . 1.5 pp. autograph manuscript on a single leaf, 9.5” x 7.5”, inset into larger leaf. A manuscript draft in Thoreau’s hand for a passage found in Chapter V, “The Wellfleet Oysterman,” of his Cape Cod, giving some account of the old

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