BIB_ID
103154
Accession number
MA 3100
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1835-1853.
Credit line
MA 3100: Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1977.
Description
4 v. (ca. 490 p.), bound ; 19.4-20.9 cm
Notes
Some portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink, and many leaves and portions of leaves have been excised, mostly by Sophia Hawthorne.
Provenance
MA 577-579: By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909. MA 3100: By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; Harriet Reynolds; by descent to her son Walter; by descent to Barbara S. Mouffe; purchased as the gift of Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, 1977.
Summary
Collection of four journals kept by Nathaniel Hawthorne while he as living in Salem, Boston, Concord, and Lenox. Entries describe excursions and travels, and record observations and ideas for future stories, referencing the Scarlet Letter and Blithedale Romance. Journals are cataloged individually in four records (MA 3100 and MA 577-579).
Housed in
Brown and grey quarter leather drop-spine boxes
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