Walter Harding finds a book review by Thoreau’s old professor, C. Felton. In this 14-page review, Felton mentions an old student, Thoreau, a scholar of talent, but claims that Thoreau was a man of such “pertinacious oddity... that his writings will…
A photo of Harding from 1934 - just two years before he started studying at Bridgewater state college. This photo is from the same year that he first became interested in Thoreau after a high school English teacher recommended his work to Harding.