Autograph letter signed : West Newton, to E. P. Whipple, 1852 May 2.

Record ID: 
103638
Accession number: 
MA 573.1
Author: 
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Credit: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes: 

With seal and addressed to "E.P. Whipple, Esq. Boston." Signed "Sincerely yours, Nathl Hawthorne."

Summary: 

Concerning the manuscript of Hawthorne's "The Blithedale Romance," referring to it as "a huge bundle of scribble, which [Whipple has] thoughtlessly promised to look over." Asking for advice on the naming the manuscript, noting "'The Blithedale Romance'--that would do, in lack of a better."

Provenance: 
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.