Samuel Arthur Jones Hdt What? Index

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1834

June 11, Wednesday: Samuel Arthur Jones was born in Manchester, England, to the Welsh parents John Edwin Jones and Margaret Edwards Jones.

Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 4th day 6 M 11th 1834 / Early this Morning Ann V Allen daughter of Gideon Allen of New Bedford Died at the Institution aged 13 Years She was taken on 7th day last with a distressing disease which proved to be the Dropsy in the Head - her Agony was great till very near the close & she was deprived of reason very soon after she was taken — In the Afternoon her father carried her home for Internment - This event was an exceedingly trying one -not only to us but throughout the whole Institution RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1842

The Welsh family of 8-year-old Samuel Arthur Jones came to the USA. He would attend the Free Academy in Utica, New York but not enter college, instead reading medicine with a Utica physician, Dr. W.H. Watson. He would become an advocate of the “homoeopathic” theories of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (German, 1757-1843). According to this theory a physician ought to administer, to an ill patient, a drug which, if administered to a healthy person, would induce the same symptoms exhibited by that patient, but should administer the drug in infinitesimally small doses, and only after the medication had been struck repeatedly against a leather pad. Since an infinitesimal dose is essentially no dose at all, this medical treatment amounted in practice to the entire withholding of medical attention from the ill. To extend such an agenda to the area of penology, we might suppose that if it is appropriate to subjugate an unruly prisoner by the use of a cattle prod, a more effective technique would be to rub them with a balloon until the static charge made the hair on their heads stand on end. Likewise, we don’t need cyanide gas to execute anyone, since if we would only test this — we would discover it to be considerably more deadly to merely shake a bag of almonds under their nose. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1845

Maria Jane Van Brunt was born in Englewood, New Jersey, a daughter of William Hiram Van Brunt (1884- 1964) and Etta Baird Van Brunt (1890-1977). HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1856

The Times of London’s annual summary:

READ ABOUT THE YEAR

At Leicester Square in London, the closing of the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art.

On the site of the Surrey Zoological Gardens near London, Surrey Music Hall opened.

The General Omnibus Company (LGOC) went into business in London.

Samuel Arthur Jones returned to England (until 1860). HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1857

James Reynolds’s map of London, divided into quarter mile sections, drawn and engraved by R. Jarman, and hand colored. Dimensions 29.5 x 19.5 inches. Published at 174 Strand Street.

http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/snow/1859map/

In London, opening of the National Portrait Gallery.

In London, opening of the Museum of Ornamental Art (what would eventuate in the Victoria and Albert Museum).

In London, opening of the South Kensington Museum.

In London, opening of the British Library Reading Room. Samuel Arthur Jones, upon a visit to London, purchased some 18th-Century literature and began a lifelong project of accumulating books of value and historical significance (such as MOBY-DICK).

Charles Manby Smith’s THE LITTLE WORLD OF LONDON.

Francis Galton and Louisa Jane Butler Galton purchased a home at Rutland Gate in London. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications7/world-00.htm

LONDON HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1860

Samuel Arthur Jones, who had returned from England to the United States and settled in Englewood, New Jersey, was awarded a “medical diploma” by the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, an institution at which he had never studied. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1861

On the strength of a fraudulent “medical diploma” issued by the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, an institution at which he had not studied, “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones was awarded a second “medical diploma” by the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Medical College. This 2d institution of medical education was a venue at which he had at one time, for several terms, actually been a student!

At some point he enlisted in the 22d New Jersey Volunteers. He would serve for 9 months in the Army of the Potomac as First Assistant Surgeon, then become an Assistant Surgeon for 22d Regiment of the New York National Guard, but would soon be invalided home with inflammatory rheumatism. US CIVIL WAR

Massachusetts Board of Education, TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT, together with the TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT of the Secretary of the Board, Boston, William White. (The General Statutes of Massachusetts regarding public education are included in this report, with explanations by the Secretary of the Board.)

REPORTS OF THE SELECTMEN AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD, FROM MARCH 5, 1860, TO MARCH 4, 1861. INCLUDING THE MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN TOWN IN 1860. ALSO, THE REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR ENDING APRIL 1, 1861. Bound with REPORTS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE AND THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE SCHOOLS, OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD, MASS., WITH A NOTICE OF AN EXHIBITION OF THE SCHOOLS, IN THE TOWN HALL, ON SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1861. Concord: Printed by Benjamin Tolman, 78 pages. One thousand copies were printed for distribution and one of these copies wound up of course in the personal library of H.D. Thoreau, who was listed in the town’s expenses as having been paid $1.00 before the onset of his illness for “surveying on turnpike.” SCHOOL REPORT 1860-61

(We note with interest that the electronic copy hiding behind the above hypertext button turns out to have been donated from the library of sometimes-Thoreau-scholar “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones,1 and that the postage the town of Concord had needed to mail this book to him at an Ann Arbor, Michigan address had been 4 newly issued serrated-edge penny stamps featuring Benjamin Franklin in a greenish ink.2)

1. We note that in this very year “Dr.” Jones, having been awarded a diploma by the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, Missouri –although this was an institution of medical education and training at which in fact he had never studied– was attempting to utilize that new document, piling piece of paper atop piece of paper, to build credentials for himself as a physician. (Heaven protect his patients!) 2. Originally so honored had been 1st President George Washington, in black with straight edges at X cents, and 1st Postmaster Franklin, worth precisely one-half X cents, as of 1847. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES When the College of Homœopathic Medicine was established in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones “was unanimously nominated by Dr. Carroll Dunham and the American Institute of Homœopathy as the only man for the place, and his appointment was made by the Board of Regents.”

Superintendent of Schools A. Bronson Alcott’s report instanced that Mr. Emerson had given the school a conversation on persons and books, Mr. Pratt had read a paper on Flowers and Flower Culture, and Mr. Sanborn had read a paper on the History of Numbers, but that Mr. Bull’s engagements had prevented him from delivering his “partly promised” account of the discovery and culture of the Concord grape (since he had lost his entire crop due to an early frost, he may have been disheartened), and that due to health issues Mr. Thoreau had unfortunately proved unable to deliver a promised discourse upon his favorite theme of Nature as the friend and preceptor of man (a topic on which everyone hoped he was still writing). Thirty-two persons were reported to have gotten married in Concord during the previous year, 22 of them Concord inhabitants “and 10 from other places,” and this official report took explicit note of the fact that although one of the bridegrooms had been getting married for the 2d time, and another for the 3d time, “Of the females, all were first marriages.” (Count their legs and divide by two, sixteen lovely brides!)

Forty-three births were reported to have occurred in Concord during 1860, and this official report noted that less than a third of those infants were Irish whereas in 1859, fully half had been Irish — and therefore “America will have cause to be hopeful.” (Hopeful that Irish immigrants might not actually be able to swamp America with their relentless fecundity?)

The following persons were officially reported to have succumbed in Concord during 1860: • George Atcheson, who had lived 1 year, 1 month, 8 days. • Nehemiah Ball, who had lived 69 years, 2 months, 11 days. • Martha Tilden Bartlett, who died at the age of 61 years. • Ruth J. Clark, who died at the age of 75 years. • Julia Collins, who died at the age of 1 year, 9 months, 16 days. • Mary Collins, who died at the age of 8 months, 16 days. • Ephraim Dakin, who had lived 86 years, 1 month, 24 days. • Mary B. Dakin, who died at the age of 55 years. • James W. Dean, who died at the age of 2 months, 6 days. • Margaret Fahan, who died at the age of 32 years. • Roxanna Flint, who died at the age of 55 years. • John Garrison, who died at the age of 91 years. • Mary Gleason, who died at the age of 9 months, 6 days. • Annie W. Goodnow, who died at the age of 4 years. • John M. Goodwin, who died at the age of 58 years. • Charles Gordon, who had lived 76 years, 9 months. • Milly Holden, who died at the age of 86 years. • Tilly Holden, who died at the age of 76 years. • Rufus Hosmer, who died at the age of 51 years. • Sarah L. Hutchinson, who died at the age of 18 years. • Edward Lamson Kent, who died at the age of 3 months. • David Murphy, who died at the age of 3 months, 8 days. • Catherine Murray, who died at the age of 2 years, 3 months. • Mary Newcomb, who had lived 81 years, 2 months. • Thomas Nolan, who died at the age of 1 day. • Jane T. Prichard, who had lived 69 years, 8 months, 27 days. • Lucia Simmons, who had lived 5 years, 5 months, 24 days. • Edward Hurd Skinner, who died at the age of 10 months, 2 days. • Martha W. Smith, who died at the age of 32 years. • Elizabeth A. Starkey, who had lived 35 years, 2 months, l day, with her unnamed day-old infant. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES • Evangeline Surette, who died at the age of 3 months, 13 days. • An unnamed infant, Waldron, who died at the age of 4 days. • Isaac Watts, who died at the age of 61 years. • Susan P. Weston, who had lived 27 years, 7 months. • Frank Wetherbee, who died at the age of 2 months. • Charles Wheeler, who had lived 49 years, 4 months, 15 days.

In addition the record for 1859 was expanded to include a missed report: • Theodore Parker Pratt, who had lived 16 years, 8 months, 18 days.

The average length of life was thus computable at 33 and 3/4ths years. Most of the deaths had been due to Cholera Infantum or other infant ailments, to Apoplexy, and to Consumption (TB), and there had been but one suicide in the town. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1863

November 24, Tuesday: “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones got married with Maria “Mary” Jane Van Brunt, a daughter of William Hiram Van Brunt (1884-1964) and Etta Baird Van Brunt (1890-1977). This couple would produce some 11 or a dozen children, among them Elsie Jones in 1864 (A.B. 1888 University of Michigan, Phi Beta Kappa, would marry Charles H. Cooley of Ann Arbor and become a schoolteacher); Arthur Jones, Carroll Dunham Jones (B.S. 1893, E.E. 1897, instructor in the University of Michigan from 1897 till his death, July 30, 1901), Samuel Jones (deceased), Rembert Jones, Howell Jones, Margaret Jones (A.B. 1901 University of Michigan, would marry Edwin P. Nutting), Paul Jones (deceased); Paul Van Brunt Jones born August 26, 1882 (A.B. 1906 University of Michigan, A.M. 1908, Ph.D. 1912, Phi Beta Kappa); Winifred Jones, and Esyllt W. Jones.

For several days Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee had been consulting together at Orange Court House, Virginia.

The Reverend Robert Collyer wrote again to Charles Wesley Slack, this time with further explanation about his leaving Chicago for Boston.

In a “Battle Above the Clouds,” Federal forces drove the Confederates off Lookout Mountain south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. US CIVIL WAR HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1865

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones was practicing homœopathy in Englewood, New Jersey. He practiced also in New- York, as a consulting physician. He became chair of Histology and Pathology at the New York Homœopathic Medical College. He became proficient with the microscope, and was a charter member of the New York Microscopical Society. He became a member of the New York State Examining Board.

Waldo Emerson’s edition of Henry Thoreau’s LETTERS TO VARIOUS PERSONS. One reviewer of this volume would describe Thoreau as “so peculiar a person that everything that relates to him must be read with interest by any one who likes to study what is abnormal in human development.” This is the edition which would be critiqued later by “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones with the telling remark “It is a pity that Thoreau’s truthfulness did not infect his editors.”

In this volume Emerson included the first 6 stanzas of Thoreau’s poem “Inspiration”: Whate’er we leave to God, God does, And blesses us; The work we choose should be our own, God leaves alone. If with light head erect I sing, Though all the Muses lend their force, From my poor love of anything, The verse is weak and shallow as its source. But if with bended neck I grope Listening behind me for my wit, With faith superior to hope, More anxious to keep back than forward it; Making my soul accomplice there Unto the flame my heart hath lit, Then will the verse forever wear— Time cannot bend the line which God hath writ. Always the general show of things Floats in review before my mind, And such true love and reverence brings, That sometimes I forget that I am blind. But now there comes unsought, unseen, Some clear divine electuary, And I, who had but sensual been, Grow sensible, and as God is, am wary. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1869

July: “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones published “The Homeopathic Recorder: Latrodectus Mactans: a suggested remedy in angina pectoris.”

Near Los Angeles, California, blood of a thick, vivid red hue containing hairs and portions of internal organs fell out of a clear sky over two acres of a cornfield. The shower was witnessed by a funeral party that included members of the clergy:

WALDEN: Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it. We need the tonic of wildness.... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of Nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and Titanic features, the seacoast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.... I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one another; that tender organizations can be so serenely squashed out of existence like pulp, — tadpoles which herons gobble up, and tortoises and toads run over in the road; and that sometimes it has rained flesh and blood!

RAINS OF BLOOD, &C. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1872

3 Michael Baxter had been predicting another Armageddon in 1871-1872 or thereabouts (McIver, Tom. THE END OF THE WORLD: AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY. Jefferson NC: McFarlane & Co., 1999 #351).

MILLENNIALISM “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones wrote: Let us guard our homœopathic heritage most jealously. The provings on the healthy, the simillimum as the remedy, the single remedy, the reduced dose, may be and will be filled from us one by one and christened with new names to bide the theft. What will become of homœopathy? It will live, despite them, in Hahnemann’s posology. The very infinitesimals which many are so ready to throw away are all that will save us.

3.Armageddon = the place (possibly to be identified with Har Megiddo, the Mount of Megiddo, near Tel Aviv, near which many battles were fought) designated in Revelation 16:16 as the scene of the final battle between the kings of the earth at the end of the world. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1875

Fall: “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones became the dean of a new Homœopathic Medical College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and the institution’s 1st Chair Professor of Materia Medica, at the behest of a state legislature which at that time was ramming this quackery down the university’s throat. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1878

Wilson Flagg was described in this year as “belonging to the Thoreau school of American writers”:

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones resigned as Dean and Professor of Materia Medica, Therapeutics, and Experimental Pathogenesy at the Homœopathic Medical College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under pressure, and devoted himself to private practice and the collection of books (he preserved, for instance, Herman Melville’s personal copy of MOBY DICK, OR THE WHALE, which would become the basis for Volume 6 of the Scholarly Edition of Melville’s works). HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1880

To explain the existence of temperate and arctic plants in lower latitude locations, Alfred Russel Wallace presented a theory of alpine corridor dispersal. He threw his support behind the ideas of the American economist Henry George. He developed a model for rent assessment for land parcels, based in part on the location of the parcel of land relative to various services, and in part on the value added to that property by the renter. He made himself one of the 1st to draw attention to and provide evidence for a “mouth-gesture” account of the origin of human speech.

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones resigned from the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under pressure, and began to concentrate upon his “medical practice” with private patients. He published “The Grounds of a Homœopath’s Faith: Three Lectures Delivered at the Request of Matriculates of the Department of Medicine and Surgery (old School) of the University of Michigan, Homoeopathy, Its Nature, Purpose and Place: A Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Homoeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan, October 1st, 1875.” (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel). HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1889

4 Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson’s EMERSON IN CONCORD was published by Houghton, Mifflin.

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones commented to Friend Daniel Ricketson about Franklin Benjamin Sanborn: “I remembered to Sanborn Emerson’s having asked him why he did not participate in the war he had done so so much to precipitate. I tell you, God’s sunlight shone through all the man’s disguises. I saw he was a sham. He may pose in whatsoever attitude he can devise, but he can be only and always an Insincerity.”

December 2, Monday: “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s THOREAU: A GLIMPSE: A PAPER READ BEFORE THE UNITY CLUB OF ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, ON MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2ND, 1889. SUPPLEMENTED BY A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THOREAU (this would appear in The Unitarian for January, February, and March 1890, and then be published as a book in Concord in 1903).5 From that supreme moment onward, to this man Thoreau every created thing was a divine message from its Maker and his. O, if he could but catch the meaning of message or of messenger! Hence his mystical allegory:

4. Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson. EMERSON IN CONCORD. Houghton, Mifflin, 1889

5. “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones, THOREAU: A GLIMPSE (Concord: Albert Lane, 1903; NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1972) HDT WHAT? INDEX

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WALDEN: In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men’s, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint “No Admittance” on my gate. I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves. To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine! No doubt many of my townsmen have met me returning from this enterprise, farmers starting for Boston in the twilight, or woodchoppers going to their work. It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but, doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

Alas! for us all, they had lost them, even as we have; for what is the hound but the divine scent that finds the trail; what the bay horse but sagacity and strength to carry us in pursuit; what the turtle-dove but innocence to secure us the divine protection? And we have lost them all. Are we still on the trail? Thoreau kept there “till he disappeared behind the cloud.”

lost hound “what is the hound but the divine scent that finds the trail” lost bay horse “what the bay horse but sagacity and strength to carry us in pursuit” HDT WHAT? INDEX

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lost turtle-dove “what the turtle-dove but innocence to secure us the Divine protection”

The The WALDEN other parable analyses HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1890

August: By this point there was no more plumbago, or “wad,” to be extracted from the hillsides of Keswick in England.

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones visited Concord to study Henry Thoreau materials. Here are some notes about pencil manufacture he made during a conversation he had with Horace Rice Hosmer, with whom he would enter upon an extended correspondence:

•“The pencil secret” •“The plumbago was mixed with German clay (fuller’s earth) into a paste, rolled into sheets, cut into leads, and burnt, so as to use up the clay. The father Thoreau very secretive as to his process.” • “Monroe used glue instead of clay.” HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1891

March 9, Monday: Horace Rice Hosmer, in Acton, Massachusetts, received a “very fine Photo of Thoreau,” showing him “at meridian,” from “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones. Probably this would have been the B.W. Maxham daguerreotype taken in 1856.

On this date Hosmer wrote to “Dr.” Jones that: “Elisha Dugan was a Mulatto, the son of a runaway slave from Va. Dugan owned a good house and some land, with good fruit trees. He was unmarried, and lived alone for many years. At the present time he is in the Almshouse, Concord.” This was the last survivor of the Dugan family of Concord. This material is available, for whatever it is worth, in REMEMBRANCES OF CONCORD AND THE THOREAUS: LETTERS OF HORACE HOSMER TO DR. S.A. JONES, BY HORACE HOSMER, edited by George Hendrick (Urbana, Chicago, London: U of Illinois P, 1977); a download available for a fee on the internet at http://docigy.ru/xyxanez.pdf or https://archive.org/details/remembrancesofco00hora).

August: “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s article “Thoreau and His Biographers” appeared in Lippincott’s Magazine.

Serialization of Robert Louis Stevenson’s THE WRECKER (with Samuel Lloyd Osbourne) began in Scribner’s Magazine. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1893

February: On St. Helena, a meteorological station was established at Hutts Gate.

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s 2-page “Thoreau” appeared in The Inlander, a Michigan University student publication.

John W. Chadwick, in “Recollections of George William Curtis” in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, described an encounter with Curtis in Concord: Thoreau was then a few months dead; but even in health he was a man who “would not go round the corner to see the universe blow up.”

December: Long afterward, with nobody around to go “Takes One To Know One,” Horace Rice Hosmer summed up Bronson Alcott uncharitably as “an old bundle of false pretenses” and a relative chimed in by characterizing him as having been a “Pewter Plato.” This would provide the title for “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s review, which appeared in The Inlander, of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn’s and William T. Harris’s A. BRONSON ALCOTT, HIS LIFE AND PHILOSOPHY: [Bronson Alcott’s] deflection began when the glamour about those Virginia plantations bewitched the boy peddler’s admiring eyes. He soared from peddling to Philosophy ... and he found those who confirmed him in his delusion.... To reform the human family he neglected his own family, and by that token the race will recognize a pewter Plato. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1894

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY DAV ID THOREAU, WITH AN OUTLINE OF HIS LIFE. COMPILED AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED BY SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES (New York: Rowfant Club of Cleveland). He kept the temple as divine Wherein his soul abided; He heard the Voice within the shrine, And followed as it guided: He found no bane of bitter strife, But laws of His designing; He quaffed the brimming cup of Life, And went forth unrepining. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1895

November 20, Wednesday: Alfred Winslow Hosmer wrote to “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones as follows: I was in one of the stores the other day, when a gentleman said, “Well, you are having quite a little to say about Henry Thoreau, did you know him?” “No” I replied, “I never even saw him, that I know of.” “Well, I have, I used to work, when a boy at Sam Barrett’s mill,” (grist mill, near North branch on Spencer brook) “and Thoreau used to come in there quite often. He was in one day when some boys were there, and they asked me if I was going in swimming, I said, no, I was afraid of the water snakes. Thoreau said they would not hurt me, and asked if there was any chance of one being out, so I shut off the water, and we went up the brook, found one about three feet long, when Thoreau went up carefully, picked up the snake, and showed us that it had no sting in its tail, and no bones in its head, that would give it power to bite, & that it was perfectly harmless, and since that time,” he added, “I lost all my fear of the snakes.” HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1898

April 13, Wednesday: The U.S. Congress agreed to President McKinley’s request for intervention in Cuba, but without recognizing the Cuban Government.

The Spanish government declared that US policy jeopardized the sovereignty of Spain and prepared a special budget for war.

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones delivered in the amphitheater of the 1st homœopathic hospital at Ann Arbor, at the request of the faculty of the department, a lecture “Under Which King, Bezonian?” in which he exhorted his hearers to remain faithful ever to the inheritance of Homœopathy. Perhaps when you are gleaning the precious aftermath in thankfulness, you may give a passing thought to the memory of the worn-out workman who came to you by night bringing the challenge: “Under Which King?”

During this year, “Dr.” Jones would publish a fictionalized biography of Samuel Hahnemann, “The Porcelain Painter’s Son, a Fantasy” (New York and Philadelphia: Boericke & Tafel), and in this volume the above lecture “Under Which King, Bezonian?” would be provided as an appendix: Ripe in years, richly rewarded with earthly goods, loved by the afflicted, and revered by the world’s wisest and best, he found his exceeding great reward. And while he sat in the vineyard in the cool of the evening there came to him the messenger of the Master of the Vineyard; and he arose and followed him.

December: “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s “Thoreau’s Incarceration” (The Inlander, a Michigan University student publication, IX, pages 97-98): It seems that a question had arisen regarding the boundary line between land owned by Emerson and Mr. S[taples] himself, which the latter told me had recently become his through a “dicker” with someone whose name I did not catch. Thoreau was employed to make the necessary survey (“and he did it right slick, I tell you”); and having finished his work, he had appointed a meeting at Emerson’s house to make his report. I can never forget how Mr. S. in his statement of that meeting made me feel the bland mildness of Emerson’s nature. “He was a man, sir, that wouldn’t hurt a fly,” said Mr. S. most emphatically. Then he went on to explain that there had been no “quarrel” between Emerson and himself; they only “just wanted to know, you know, which was which.” Thoreau was already at Emerson’s house when Mr. S. arrived, and they plunged into business without delay. Much to Emerson’s surprise, Thoreau said and proved by a map of the survey that his, Mr. Emerson’s, partition fence intruded several feet upon the adjoining property; and without waiting for a word from the utterly unconscious intruder, he went on to declare that the appropriation of the land was intentional, only Mr. S. had proven too sharp to be imposed upon; and all these years you’ve been holding up your nose as an upright citizen and an example to everybody, yet every time you reset your fence you knowingly shoved it in a little farther and a little farther, until you’ve HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES stolen land enough to almost feed a yearling heifer; but Mr. S. has been too smart for any of you sly fellows, and I’m glad to have a hand in exposing you; though its an awful disappointment to me.” “Why,” said Mr. S., “if Emerson hed been ketched pickin’ pockets at town meetin’ he could n’t a looked more streaked. Thoreau was talkin’ in downright earnest, and you could have heard him way out on the Lexin’ton road. I felt so all-fired mean, I could n’t do nothin’ but look at the floor; but whilst Thoreau was a rakin’ of him and had just said somethin’ darned haa’sh, I just had to look at him, and when I saw his eye I laughed ’til you could a heard it up to the top of the Hill buryin’ ground. You see, he was just guyin’ Mr. Emerson, and when he see it, he did n’t take it amiss at all. He was the nicest man that ever lived.” WALDO EMERSON HENRY THOREAU HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1899

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s “On the Erythraemalysis Produced by Picric Acid.” He had been beating this drum at least since November 1881. In 1871 it has been demonstrated that picric acid could detonate, and this led by 1885 to its use as the main high explosive in artillery shells. Picric acid kills the red blood corpuscles, so they can no longer carry oxygen, and you “die from suboxidation.” That being the case, “we may claim for Picric acid a place in the treatment of the more profound blood-genetic diseases” ... “then follow a gradual decrease of the number of red blood-corpuscles, a constantly increasing suboxidation, a deepening asthenia, and death by asphyxia.” Racing through these dozen pages of rant, it becomes hard to figure out whether the author is pretending to be a medical healer, or admitting to being a mad poisoner of laboratory animals.

Cynthia Dunbar Thoreau, quoted by “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones on page 75 of SOME UNPUBLISHED LETTERS OF HENRY D. AND SOPHIA E. THOREAU (Jamaica: Marion Press): Why, this room [Thoreau’s sickroom at the boardinghouse] did not seem like a sickroom. My son wanted flowers and pictures and books all around here; and he was always so cheerful and wished others to be so while about him. And during the nights he wanted the lamp set on the floor and some chairs put around it so that in his sleepless hours he could amuse himself with watching the shadows. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1900

Lindsay Swift’s BROOK FARM: ITS MEMBERS, SCHOLARS, AND VISITORS (Macmillan). Henry D. Sedgwick, Jr.’s FATHER HECKER (Boston: Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans Series).

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s 2-page “Thoreau” that had appeared in the issue for February 1893 of The Inlander, a Michigan University student publication, was reprinted in Detroit, Michigan. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1901

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones (editor). PERTAINING TO THOREAU (Detroit, Michigan). XVIII, 171pp. Limited to 225 copies.

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn’s THE PERSONALITY OF THOREAU (Boston: Goodspeed): VIEW THE PAGE IMAGES

Sanborn recollected, on pages 5-6: When I first saw Thoreau, in the College yard at Cambridge, striding along the path, away from my room in Holworthy, where he had left a copy of Walden for me, I knew him not, but was struck with his short and rustic appearance, and that peculiar stride which all who have walked with him remember. Sanborn recollected, on pages 9-10: In a wing of this capacious dwelling was the shop where the Thoreau lead-pencils had been made, perhaps, in former years; but this room, which I never visited while John Thoreau, the father, lived, was devoted, in my time, to the storing and shipping of a fine-ground plumbago for electrotyping — a business that had been taken up when the pencil industry became unprofitable. It was the family bread- winner for years, and yielded a modest income, supplemented by Henry’s receipts for land-surveying, lecturing, and writing magazine articles. As late as 1850 he was making pencils; for, in his Journal for November 20, 1853, he writes, of an earlier period: “I was obliged to manufacture $1,000 worth of pencils, and slowly dispose of, and finally sacrifice them, in order to pay an assumed debt of $100.” The plumbago, both for pencils and for electrotyping, was ground at a small mill in Acton (the next town west of Concord), where the Thoreaus had the secret of obtaining the finest-ground mineral; sent to the two-story shop attached to the dwelling-house, and there prepared for the market and shipped. Little was said of this business, although its existence was generally known; and it would not have been good manners to make inquiries about it, though in course of time Sophia spoke of it to me and others. It passed from the Thoreaus to the brothers, Marshall and Warren Miles, and has been carried on by the latter in recent years, but with less profit than in the time of the Thoreaus, who finally gave it up about 1870. After Mrs. Thoreau’s death a weird story was invented about her ghost being seen in the pencil-shop. Sanborn fabricated a tendentious recollection which could not have been true or believed by him to be true,6 on pages 30-31: One day as I entered the front hall of the Thoreau house for my noonday dinner, I saw under the stairs a pile of books; and when we met at the table, Henry said, “I have added several hundred volumes to my library lately, all of my own composition.” In fact, he had received from his first publisher the last parcel of his unsold Week, and for a year or two afterwards he sold them himself upon orders through the mail. Sanborn recollected, on pages 37-38: When I first heard Thoreau 6. Sanborn knew very well that he had not met Thoreau until 1855, while Thoreau had long since received these unsold copies and carried them up the steps and stored them in his room, on October 27, 1853. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES lecture, as he did every year at the Concord Lyceum, and frequently at Worcester and elsewhere, I did not find his spoken essays so interesting as his conversations. He had few of the arts of the orator, in which Emerson and Phillips excelled; his presence on the platform was not inspiring, nor was his voice specially musical, though he had a musical ear and a real love of melody. But for the thought and humor in his lectures they would have been reckoned dull, — and that was the impression often made. He appeared to best advantage reading them in a small room; or when, as with the John Brown Address, he was mightily stirred by the emotions that a life so heroic excited in his fearless heart. At the age of forty, or thereabout, I heard him sing his favorite song, Tom Bowline, by Didbin, which to Thoreau was a reminiscence of his brother John, so early lost and so dearly loved. The voice was unpractised and rather harsh, but the sentiment made the song interesting. Ellery Channing recollected, on pages 66-67: His illness might be passed over by some persons, but not by me; it was most impressive. To see one in middle life, with nerves and muscles and will of iron, torn apart piecemeal by that which was stronger than all, were enough to be described, if pen had the power to do it. It was a saying of his, not unfrequent, that he had lived and written as if to live forty years longer; his work was laid out for a long life. Therefore his resignation was great, true, and consistent; great, too, was his suffering. “I have no wish to live, except for my mother and sister,” was one of his conclusions. But still, as always, work, work, work! During his illness he enlarged his calendar, made a list of birds, drew greatly on his Journals; at the same time he was writing or correcting several articles for printing, till his strength was no longer sufficient even to move a pencil. Nevertheless, he did not relax, but had the papers still laid before him. I am not aware that anywhere in literature is a greater heroism; the motive, too, was sacred, for he was doing this that his family might reap the advantage. One of his noblest and ablest associates was a philosopher (Alcott) whose heart was like a land flowing with milk and honey; and it was affecting to see this venerable man kissing his brow, when the damps and sweat of death lay upon it, even if Henry knew it not. It seemed to me an extreme unction, in which a friend was the best priest. BRONSON ALCOTT

Sanborn has taken a detached scrap of paper out of a textbook allegedly owned by Thoreau, the 3d edition, the 1828 edition, of Professor John Farrar of Harvard College’s brief 1818 knock-off of Euler’s famous textbook, entitled AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA, DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF THOSE WHO ARE ACQUAINTED ONLY WITH THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF ARITHMETIC / SELECTED FROM THE ALGEBRA OF EULER (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1828), and glued ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA

this scrap of paper into the front of copy #105 of his THE PERSONALITY OF THOREAU. (This volume with its holographic fragment is now copy #3 in the special collections of Brown University, at the John Hay Library.) The paper scrap contains a holograph algebraic proof written by Thoreau in Concord on January 10, 1840.7 The problem he selected is to identify a four-number HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES geometric progression series in which the 4th number of the series is 24 more than the 2d number of the series, and the sum of the 1st number and 4th number is to the sum of the 2d number and 3d number, in the ratio of 7 to 3.

Thoreau’s first move was to identify the four numbers of the 2 3 series as respectively x , xy , xy , and xy .

Then he stated the first of the constraints, that the 4th number of the series is 24 more than the 2d number of the series, as 3 xy –24xy = .

Then he stated the second of the constraints, that the sum of the 1st number and 4th number is to the sum of the 2d number and 3 2 3d number in the ratio of 7 to 3, as 3x+ 3xy = 7xy+ 7xy . Not bothering to write down the steps of the transformation, this 3 2 immediately became y = 7y+ 7y  3 – 1 .

3 2 3 Then, putting y = 7y+ 7y  3 – 1 into xy –24xy = and freeing the 2 denominator and reducing immediately generated 7xy +724xy– 3x = .

2 3 2 Then comparing 7xy +724xy– 3x = with 3x+ 3xy = 7xy+ 7xy and 2 3 eliminating xy and reducing 7xy –3x + 4xy = 168 on 2 2 3 3 xy = 24+  3x– 4xy  7 giving xy its value obtained from xy –24xy = , 2 putting the value of xy as it then stands in the geometric progression series and taking the product of the means equal to 2 that of the extremes x y [hole in the paper] 2 2 2 4x= 24xy+  3x y4x–95xyy –  7 .

Then finding by x, freeing of the denominator, and reducing, 2 results in xy+18y42 xy = – .

2 Then putting the value of xy obtained from this into 3 2 3 3x+ 3xy = 7xy+ 7xy and reducing, results in xxy+42y98= – .

3 3 Then putting the value of xy obtained from this in xy –24xy = and reducing, generates xxy+= 42y– 122 .

2 This is followed by xy+18y42 xy = – .

2 This is followed by 18y–42y 42 = – 122y .

3 3 This is followed, on the basis of xy –24xy = , by x24y=  – y

2 By comparing xy+18y42 xy = – he obtained y=3, hence x=1, and so the geometric progression that solves these simultaneous equations would have to be “1 3 9 27.”

7. We note that in this writing which is indisputably Thoreau’s, he forms the numeral “2” by beginning his stroke at the top left with a minuscule complete circle. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1902

May 3, Saturday: The wind blew the ash cloud from Montagne Pelée on the Caribbean island of Martinique northwards, alleviating the situation in the town of Saint-Pierre.

By this point “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones had established himself, to his own satisfaction, as an authority on the various literary publications of Thomas Carlyle both in England and in America. He sent, to the New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, a chiding letter on “The Sale of Carlyle’s Works in England” (whereupon this magazine’s editors took a considerable delight in demolishing just everything their correspondent had offered to them). That Emerson “discovered” Carlyle is the flattering unction for the average American “literary” soul, and the unspoken but inferential conclusion is that except for the Sage of Concord Carlyle had remained an unknown quantity to the inhabitants of Great Britain ... a myth which only an underdone “Professor of English Literature” can repeat. ...”Sartor” never sold so well in America. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1903

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones edited COLLECTANEA THOMAS CARLYLE, 1821-1855.

George Tolman’s “Concord: Some of the Things to be Seen There” was published in Concord. This used a drawing done by Henry K. Hannah which was not from life but was based instead upon a sketch that some were supposing to have been made from life by Sophia Thoreau, as supplemented by an examination of the Maxham Daguerreotypes and other portraits. This drawing would later be used in the publication of Dr. Edward Waldo Emerson’s book about his early experiences with Henry Thoreau:

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s THOREAU: A GLIMPSE was published in Concord.89 Pages 19-20: “... to this man Thoreau every created thing was a divine message from its [Nature’s] Maker and his. Oh, if he could but catch the meaning of the message or of the messenger! Hence his mystical allegory: [quotes parable] Alas for us all! they had lost them, even as we have: for what is the hound but the divine scent that finds the trail: what the bay horse but sagacity and strength to carry us in pursuit; what the turtle- dove but innocence to secure us the Divine protection? And we have lost them all. Are we still on the trail? Thoreau kept there “till he disappeared behind the cloud.”

8. “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones, THOREAU: A GLIMPSE (Concord: Albert Lane, 1903; NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1972)

9. “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones had not been a “real” physician but a homeopathic physician, and many deny homeopathy to be a genuine part of medicine. Also, his initial degree in homeopathy had been from the Missouri Homoeopathic Medical College in St. Louis, in 1860, and that institution is of unknown standing. Also, although he obtained his initial medical diploma there, he never actually attended any classes there. Then, on the strength of this “mail order” diploma, he was able to obtain an additional diploma, from the Pennsylvania Homoeopathic Medical College, which was an institution at which he had at one time, for several terms, actually been a student — but which had not previously been willing to grant him any degree. After practicing homoeopathy with an unknown rate of success in New Jersey, in 1875 “Dr.” Jones became the dean of a new Homoeopathic Medical College at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor MI, which might be enough for us to grant the man some credibility — except that this was happening at the behest of a state legislature which at that time was ramming the new college down the university’s throat, and except for the fact that in 1878, he resigned as dean under pressure, and except for the fact that in 1880, he resigned from the faculty of the University of Michigan under pressure. I don’t know where anybody else in this discussion group stands on the topic of medicine, but this sort of life record is enough to give me personally pause. It is the life record of an unscrupulous self-promoter. –Anything such a person would produce about Thoreau, I would seek to fully corroborate from other less questionable sources. “Dr.” Jones has been the author of one of the many weird-ass “explications” of Thoreau’s WALDEN parable of the lost hound, bay horse, and turtle-dove, an explication in terms of which each of the world’s creatures constitutes a cryptic message from the Creator, messages of which, unfortunately, the “meaning of the message or of the messenger” has been lost not only by the messenger (the creature) but also by us, the intended recipient of such communications. Thoreau’s lost hound: “what is the hound but the divine scent that finds the trail”; Thoreau’s lost bay horse: “what the bay horse but sagacity and strength to carry us in pursuit”; Thoreau’s lost turtle-dove: “what the turtle-dove but innocence to secure us the Divine protection” Considering this sort of analysis, I would be dubious of “Dr.” Jones’s ability to comprehend anything that Thoreau ever penned. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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He offered the following explication of the parable of the lost hound, bay horse, and turtle-dove:

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES an explication in terms of which, each of the world’s creatures constitutes a cryptic message from the Creator, messages of which, unfortunately, the “meaning of the message or of the messenger” has been lost not only by the messenger, the creature, but also by us, the intended recipient of such communications:

lost hound “what is the hound but the divine scent that finds the trail” lost bay horse “what the bay horse but sagacity and strength to carry us in pursuit” lost turtle-dove “what the turtle-dove but innocence to secure us the Divine protection”

(Presumably, in desiring to send us messages, God would have been wiser to have relied more heavily upon Western Union singing telegrams, with one “Dr. Jones” as the uniformed delivery boy.)

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1912

March 9, Saturday morning: Samuel Arthur Jones died. He left a wife and 8 surviving children, and many grandchildren.

March 11, Monday: The body of Samuel Arthur Jones was placed in its grave. Acting as the pallbearers were the faculty of the Homœopathic College, and his former medical partner Dr. E.A. Clark of Ann Arbor.

A provisional constitution for the Chinese Republic was promulgated by the National Council in Nanking.

Edward Elgar’s imperial masque The Crown of India op.66 to words of Hamilton was performed for the initial time, in the London Coliseum, the composer conducting. It was to celebrate the coronation last year of King George V as Emperor of India and the removal of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1919

A catalog of the outstanding Carlyle holdings of “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones, that had been purchased by the University of Michigan upon his death in 1912, was published by the University: A CATALOGUE OF THE DR. SAMUEL A. JONES CARLYLE COLLECTION, WITH ADDITIONS FROM THE GENERAL LIBRARY; COMPILED BY MARY EUNICE WEAD, ASSISTANT CURATOR OF RARE BOOKS (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan).

THOMAS CARLYLE HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1946

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones and Joseph Ishill’s THOREAU’S INCARCERATION, AS TOLD BY HIS JAILER (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Oriole Press; this had originated as a 2-page article in the December 1898 issue of The Inlander, a Michigan University student publication, IX). HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES

1962

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones and Joseph Ishill’s THOREAU’S INCARCERATION, AS TOLD BY HIS JAILER (Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Oriole Press, republication of a 1846 publication that had originated as a 2-page article in the December 1898 issue of The Inlander, a Michigan University student publication, IX).

A DIFFERENT DRUMMER, still regarded as William Melvin Kelley’s best novel, imagined the impact on the whites of a southern state of an imagined sudden exodus in 1959 of all the blacks. Beginning in 1994, W. Lawrence Hogue has been working at a CELEBRATING AFRICAN AMERICAN (MALE) DIFFERENCES project, the 4th chapter of which focuses on this novel in order to explore “how the instinctive, Thoreauvian concept of radical individualism posits a social space where the African American can exist as a non-victim.” His objective in doing this work was to recreate the African American not as victim or as devalued Other any longer, in the cultural, social, and psychological narratives of the West, not as people seeking to latch onto the middle-class American stereotypical life — but instead as a fully differentiated and authentic and originative influence on our shared culture. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1970

Kenneth Walter Cameron’s CONCORD HARVEST; PUBLICATIONS OF THE CONCORD SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE WITH NOTES ON ITS SUCCESSORS AND OTHER RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH IN EMERSON, THOREAU, ALCOTT AND THE LATER TRANSCENDENTALISTS (Hartford, Connecticut; Box A, Station A, Hartford 06126: Transcendental Books).

Professor Cameron’s TRANSCENDENTAL READING PATTERNS; LIBRARY CHARGING LISTS FOR THE ALCOTTS, JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, FREDERIC HENRY HEDGE, THEODORE PARKER, GEORGE RIPLEY, SAMUEL RIPLEY OF WALTHAM, JONES VERY, AND CHARLES STEARNS WHEELER—NEW AREAS FOR FRESH EXPLORATIONS (Hartford, Connecticut; Box A, Station A, Hartford 06126: Transcendental Books).

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s PERTAINING TO THOREAU; A GATHERING OF TEN SIGNIFICANT NINETEENTH- CENTURY OPINIONS (Hartford, Connecticut; Box A, Station A, Hartford 06126: Transcendental Books).

“Dr.” Jones also edited Arthur Lewis Ford’s 1964 dissertation A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE POETRY OF HENRY DAVI D THOREAU for ESQ 61 (Hartford, Connecticut; Box A, Station A, Hartford 06126: Transcendental Books).

James Playsted Wood’s THE UNPARDONABLE SIN: A LIFE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; WITH DOCUMENTARY ILLUSTRATIONS.

10 Professor Leon Edel’s HENRY D. THOREAU hit new lows of derogation:

If A WEEK remembers, in part, the ecstasy of youth, it is a book written with a sense of lost childhood and adolescence. A significant link between it and WALDEN may be found in a quotation (in A WEEK) from the Chinese writer Mencius (Meng-tzu): “If one loses a fowl or a dog, he knows well how to seek them again; if one loses the sentiments of his heart, he does not know how to seek them again.... The duties of practical philosophy consist only in seeking after those sentiments of the heart which we have lost; that is all.” It seems clear that between the writing of A WEEK and of WALDEN Thoreau came to feel that the sentiments of his heart were irrecoverable, for in WALDEN we read his celebrated parable which harks back to this quotation. It is set down almost irreverently with a remark that readers would pardon some “obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men’s.” [Edel quotes parable]

10. Leon Edel. HENRY D. THOREAU. Minneapolis MN: U of Minnesota P, 1970 Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, during the middle of the nineteenth century, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas even more than men, and Thoreau loved himself. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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The obscurity of the parable disappears when it is placed beside the quotation from Mencius. What is more we can read a deeper secret than the loss of youth’s first ecstasies. The symbols Thoreau uses represent the most faithful animals in man’s life - his dog, guide, companion, devoted beyond the devotion of humans to his master, and his horse, a bay, a handsome animal, which embodies man’s thrust, his drive, his animal instincts. A horse carries a man and gives him a sense of support and direction. And finally the loss of the turtledove admits to a loss of love and tenderness, symbol of delicacy and affection. A man so bereft had indeed to seek comfort in cold thought. The parable speaks for an eternal quest for the ideal. It also tells us that Thoreau felt he had lost touch with the deepest part of himself - his instincts, his animal nature, with which HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES all men must make some kind of truce. And so like the Eastern philosophers whom he read, he transcends this part of himself. He sits by a pond and meditates but only partly in serenity and humility. His thoughts often express petulance and anger, of a deeply irrational kind. Behind his mask of peace, Thoreau was not at peace with himself.

The The WALDEN other parable analyses HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1972

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones, THOREAU: A GLIMPSE (Concord: Albert Lane, 1903; NY: Haskell House Publishers, 1972) HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1974

June: A cache of “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s incoming correspondence was discovered in Urbana. Illinois. In this trove were “letters by Henry Thoreau, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others; ... and there were scores of letters about Thoreau by those who had known the poet- naturalist and by several collectors and scholars.” HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1977

George Hendrick edited a trove of letters found in an attic in Urbana, Illinois, an extended correspondence between Horace Rice Hosmer and “Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones, who was writing on Thoreauvian topics: REMEMBRANCES OF CONCORD AND THE THOREAUS: LETTERS OF HORACE HOSMER TO DR. S. A. JONES (Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press).11 According to page 131, Hosmer related that: As a teacher Henry was “merciless” i.e. the thing to be done must be done correctly. He was rigidly exacting — a faithful teacher to the parent whose child he had & to the child. He never mixed with the schoolboys; he was hated. The bell tolled instead of rang, when he taught alone during John’s illness. Did not answer the boys[’] questions by the River. “He had no enemies.” He did not have the “love-idea” in him: i.e. he did not appear to feel the sex-attraction.

11. Since this book was fashioned out of a stack of old letters found in an attic, questions as to the life of “Dr.” Jones and his overall reliability may not be relevant — we may be able to authenticate such documents on the basis of forensic examination of their paper, ink, and handwriting. HDT WHAT? INDEX

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1979

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s TOWARD THE MAKING OF THOREAU’S MODERN REPUTATION: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF S. A. JONES, A. W. HOSMER, H. S. SALT, H. G. O. BLAKE, AND D. RICKETSON (edited by Fritz Oehlschlaeger and George Hendrick; University of Illinois Press). DR. O.W. HOLMES ALFRED WINSLOW HOSMER HENRY S. SALT H.G.O. BLAKE FRIEND DANIEL RICKETSON

1982

“Dr.” Samuel Arthur Jones’s THOREAU AMONGST FRIENDS AND PHILISTINES, AND OTHER THOREAUVIANA (George Hendrick, editor; Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP).

Professor Richard M. Bridgman’s DARK THOREAU was issued out of Lincoln, Nebraska by U of Nebraska P, a respected academic publisher.

The author of this effort in telepathic psychobabble had cherry-picked the evidences for a deeply pessimistic Thoreau “who could rarely bring himself to admit it; that he had a hostile, punishing streak in him, manifested most vividly in his imagery; that severe tensions necessarily existed between his temperament and his acquired idealism; and that, in consequence, his writings contain a good number of opaque and sometimes bizarre moments that can be attributed to these conditions of psychological strain.” Henry was “a tormented and sometimes quite savage man, whose prose can be variously bizarre, ugly and opaque, although such moments are customarily ignored discreetly, since they fail to illustrate the affirmative individualist and priest of Nature.” Not only that, but groking the secret nature of the author is Bridgman’s shortcut to understanding the author’s literary work: “The cost of ignoring these symptoms of Thoreau's humanity is a skewed understanding of his accomplishments as a writer.”

As cherry-picked evidence for Thoreau’s “plenitude of violent feelings” Bridgman cited among other things the famous incident while teaching in the Concord Town School as a recent graduate of Harvard College. HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES “Admonished by an observing committeeman and deacon to thrash his pupils, Thoreau at first refused, then took six of them ostensibly at random (including, disconcertingly enough, ‘the maid-servant in his own house’), used the ferule on them, and resigned his position.”

Well, well! Had Henry indeed been under the sway of a “plenitude of violent feelings,” would it not have made more sense for him to have remained in this well-paid position as the chief Concord schoolmaster — in order to be able to express daily his “hostile, punishing streak” by whailing away at the defenseless child scholars?12

About this order of speculation Peter C. Carafiol would comment in 1991, in his THE AMERICAN IDEAL: LITERARY HISTORY AS A WORLDLY ACTIVITY (NY: Oxford UP), that: I disagree with John Carlos Rowe’s assertion, typical of treatments of this issue, that “the importance of [John Thoreau, Jr.’s] death as a controlling concern cannot be overemphasized.” I think it has almost always been overemphasized.

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Prepared: January 22, 2018

12. Having intuited the secret nature of Thoreau, Professor Bridgman would turn to intuiting the secret nature of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who will seem to him to be sorta like unto some kinda shark: “He moved to keep from sinking.” Such literary pushups would enable him to become the chair of the Mark Twain Project at The Bancroft Library, and a member of the James Russell Lowell Prize Committee of the Modern Language Association! HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES ARRGH AUTOMATED RESEARCH REPORT

GENERATION HOTLINE

This stuff presumably looks to you as if it were generated by a human. Such is not the case. Instead, someone has requested that we pull it out of the hat of a pirate who has grown out of the shoulder of our pet parrot “Laura” (as above). What these chronological lists are: they are research reports compiled by ARRGH algorithms out of a database of modules which we term the Kouroo Contexture (this is data mining). To respond to such a request for information we merely push a button.

Commonly, the first output of the algorithm has obvious deficiencies and we need to go back into the modules stored in HDT WHAT? INDEX

“DR.” SAMUEL ARTHUR JONES “DR.” S.A. JONES the contexture and do a minor amount of tweaking, and then we need to punch that button again and recompile the chronology — but there is nothing here that remotely resembles the ordinary “writerly” process you know and love. As the contents of this originating contexture improve, and as the programming improves, and as funding becomes available (to date no funding whatever has been needed in the creation of this facility, the entire operation being run out of pocket change) we expect a diminished need to do such tweaking and recompiling, and we fully expect to achieve a simulation of a generous and untiring robotic research librarian. Onward and upward in this brave new world.

First come first serve. There is no charge. Place requests with . Arrgh.