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File contains a portfolio enclosing drawings (matted) for illustrations in MacDonald's projected edition of Walden, including 20 drawings of historiated or inhabited initials containing birds, fish and plants of the area around Concord, Mass., and 10 scenes designated for particular chapters of the book such as Sounds, Visitors, Brute neighbours and House warming.

File contains a booklet (3 sheets of paper folded in quarto and bound in a wrapper with string) of layouts for the illustrated edition of Walden, comprising pencil sketches (5) for the frontispiece, title page, chapter openings and page openings. The title page of the booklet of layouts reads "Walden, or, Life in the woods by Henry D. Thoreau, with drawings by Thoreau MacDonald, Limited Editions Club, New York, MCMXXXIII".

Item is a booklet (8 sheets of graph paper folded in folio and bound with string) of layouts for the 1937 edition of Maria Chapdelaine, comprising pencil sketches (4) for the title page vignette, chapter endings and page openings.

File contains a short note handwritten by Thoreau MacDonald describing the origin of his illustrated edition of Maria Chapdelaine, with a transcription (1973) of the note and photocopies of illustrated pages from the 1938 edition and the 1965 edition.

File contains personal letters from Thoreau MacDonald in Thornhill, Ont. to Nancy Robertson Dillow.

File contains letters from Thoreau MacDonald in Thornhill, Ont. to Joan Murray (1970) and Sybille. Pantazzi (1974) of the Art Gallery of Ontario and to Thomas Roche Lee; Christmas cards designed by MacDonald and a card to T.R. Lee illustrated by MacDonald; with an undated invitation to an exhibition of works by Thoreau MacDonald at the Old Post Office, Grafton, Ont., illustrated with a numbered woodcut engraving.

Plain bound sketchbook (42.5 x 35.5 cm) with 8 full page drawings and 1 half-page bound in. 5 drawings removed along perforation. The drawings are ink and brush studies, apparently from models.

File contains drawings in pencil and red pencil on heavy paper containing figures and copies from the antique, with geometrical structures overlaid.

File contains miscellaneous pencil sketches and notes on paper containing rough drawings and notations, including outline drawings of Titian

File contains pencil drawings on paper with written notations showing proportions of the human body at different ages and with different sexes.