Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Thoreau” in chapter 1.1 of Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2:
...at Harvard, who became a minister in due course.
One thinks of the letters young Mr. Tennyson of Trinity was exchanging with other Cambridge Apostles about the same time.
The salutation is Friend Thoreau , which seems to have been the accepted convention at the time.
Perhaps the most significant sentence in it runs:
I hear that you are comfortably located in your native town, as the guardian of...
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Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
† | Henry Thoreau | 194 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
Henry David Thoreau | 150 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Thoreau | 142 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Henry D. Thoreau | 117 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
H. D. Thoreau | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Miss Thoreau | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
David Henry Thoreau | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
Helen Thoreau | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
John Thoreau | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.