Piece deals with the author's familiarity with the natural and man-made features of Concord, Mass., through Bronson Alcott's emphasis on local geography while Superintendent of Schools in Concord and through a copy of the 1852 Walling map of Concord that hung in her family's home.

Papers, [1885]-1893, include: letters from Edward Sherman Hoar to Edward Sanford Burgess, 1891-1892; letters from Elizabeth Hallett Prichard Hoar (Mrs. Edward Sherman Hoar) to Burgess, 1893; typed transcripts of letters; notes on Concord people (incl. Thoreau), 1892-1893; notes on J.F. Clarke, F.H. Hedge, Theodore Parker, T.W. Higginson, John Brown, etc.; notes on Edward Boscawen; two mss. (Noted Places in Concord, [1885], and Noted Men of Concord,...

Correspondence (1941-1975) primarily reflecting Teale's involvement in Thoreau Society (with major sequences from Raymond Adams, Francis H. Allen, Theodore Bailey, Walter Harding, Ira Hoover, Gladys Hosmer, Leonard F. Kleinfeld, Roland Wells Robbins, and Ruth Wheeler); research notes and working papers accumulated in preparing publications, lectures, and seminars (most of the material organized and arranged by Teale himself); (cont.) ms. notebooks;...