BIB_ID
103667
Accession number
MA 1220.1-15
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 May 22-July 7.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
15 items, unbound : ill. ; 17.7 and 20 cm
Notes
Includes sketches (all letters), engravings (MA 1220.4 and 1220.13), and pressed flowers (MA 1220.13-4).
See collection files for a brief typed description of the collection with notes indicating it was purchased from H. A. Hawthorne in May 1947 and a typed letter signed from H. A. Hawthorne to the Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, dated Danbury, 1947 June 5, stating that he cannot find the missing pages of the letters.
Some letters are incomplete.
See collection files for a brief typed description of the collection with notes indicating it was purchased from H. A. Hawthorne in May 1947 and a typed letter signed from H. A. Hawthorne to the Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, dated Danbury, 1947 June 5, stating that he cannot find the missing pages of the letters.
Some letters are incomplete.
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
Summary
This collection includes 15 letters Sophia Hawthorne wrote to her daughter Una while Sophia was away on trips in England and Scotland with her husband (Nathaniel Hawthorne) and their son Julian. The first 7 letters, dated May 22-29, 1857, were written from locations in England including Lincoln, Boston, Peterborough, and Nottingham. The next 8 letters, dated June 26-July 7, 1857, were written on a trip to Scotland from locations including Carlisle, Dumfries, Ayr, Glasgow, Dumbarton, Loch Lomond, Loch Katrine, and Stirling. The letters, which give details of their travels, are described in 15 individual records (MA 1220.1-15).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (22.6 cm)
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