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  1. D. Ross, Jr. and S. Adams, The endings ofWalden, Bull. Res. Humanities 84 (1981) is our first report on the topic.

  2. R.E. Clapper, The development ofWalden: A genetic text, Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles (1967).

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  7. Optical scanning of a typed or xeroxed dissertation may be feasible through the Kurzweil Data Entry Machine, a description of which is available from Kurzweil, 33 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02142, U.S.A.

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  10. Our general impression is that Thoreau's failure to build frequent verbal links from the new material to the old may contribute to many readers' inability to take the last half ofWalden as seriously as the opening chapters. See Ross and Adams, cited in fn. 1.

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Ross, D. Aids for editing Walden. Comput Hum 15, 155–162 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02404181

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