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What began as a summer course for Geneseo students became a wide-reaching retreat with many scholarly works stemming from the inspiration which Harding provided. The same drive which led him to found the Thoreau Society continued to drive other,…

Harding discusses the formation of the Thoreau Society from his own very informed point of view. Note that he mentions his use of the Thoreau Society Bulletin to publish features which were important to him on a personal level. He describes the…

Beginning with a brief overview of the foundations of his interest in Thoreau, this heartfelt address made before the Thoreau Society was Harding's way of announcing his plans to bequeath to them his collection of "Thoreauviana", as he was inclined…

Inspired by the writings of other Thoreauvian scholars, Harding tells of the start of his own interest in Thoreau. Harding first read Walden in college, even though he was interested in Thoreau years before due to an old high school English teacher.

In the first part of this article, Walter Harding describes how he had a sudden "compulsion to read Thoreau". He put in a lot of time and effort in his studies of Thoreau and building this collection of documents about Thoreau. He later goes on to…

The second half of the "I Discover Thoreau" document. Harding address the question of if he ever gets tired of studying Thoreau.

In this document, up until the line break on the second column of this page, Harding explains how he became obsessed with Henry David Thoreau in high school. He goes on to discuss his fascination with Thoreau and what has become of it.

In an interview, Dr. Harding discusses his opinions on students in the 1960's, particularly those from Geneseo.

In a paper that was published in the Diarists' Journal, Walter Harding speaks of his love and devotion to Thoreau and how it all started.

In part 2 of this interview, Aton asks Walter Harding some questions about how he began his career as a Thoreauvian. Harding describes his feeling of being "home at last" when he finally read Thoreau