BIB_ID
103684
Accession number
MA 611.1-21
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1819-1862.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 box (21 items), unbound : ill. (port.) ; size varies
Notes
MA 611.3 includes a contemporary copy of the letter removed from MA 3400; MA 611.19 was removed from the Ford Collection in 1922 and housed with MA 611.
Provenance
By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
This collection includes 19 autograph letters, mostly signed, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to various family members and acquaintances (MA 611.1-19); an engraving of Hawthorne (MA 611.20); and a typescript letter signed (dated Oct. 4, 1902) from Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne's son, to the editor of The New York Times (MA 611.21). Items in the collection are described individually (MA 611.1-21).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.3 cm)
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