BIB_ID
103750
Accession number
MA 3400 (SH 96)
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1862.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Lorenz Reich, Jr., 1980.
Description
1 item (ca. 379 p.), bound ; 9.8 cm
Notes
One entry, written on the page for 15 April 1862, is dated Feb. 22, 1863.
With thirteen pages of memoranda and accounts and a four-line verse on the back flyleaf.
Written in "Daily Miniature Diary for 1862." New York, Kiggins and Kellogg, 1862.
With thirteen pages of memoranda and accounts and a four-line verse on the back flyleaf.
Written in "Daily Miniature Diary for 1862." New York, Kiggins and Kellogg, 1862.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Lorenz Reich, Jr. in 1980.
Summary
Brief daily entries noting the weather, the health of the Hawthorne family, and outlining daily activities. Mentioning the Emerson and Alcott families, and noting on May 6 that "Mr. Thoreau died this morning." Referencing the the Civil War, such as in the entry for July 9, which reads: "Our wedding day. Very hot and smoky. We think it the smoke of battles."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (11.1 cm)
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