BIB_ID
103638
Accession number
MA 573
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1852 May 2.
Credit line
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."
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
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."
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