BIB_ID
103758
Accession number
MA 631.4
Creator
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934.
Display Date
1903 Oct. 1.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 24.5 cm
Notes
Bound with the autograph manuscript of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Septimius Felton (MA 631.1).
Includes a note in pencil from Stephen H. Wakeman: "These 4 pages were missing from the mss. when I received it from J[ulian] H[awthorne]. I subsequently secured them from another party -- SHW."
Includes a note in pencil from Stephen H. Wakeman: "These 4 pages were missing from the mss. when I received it from J[ulian] H[awthorne]. I subsequently secured them from another party -- SHW."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Indicating that two manuscipt pages of Septimius Felton are enclosed (pages no longer with this letter); mentioning that the book was written in "Concord, about 1862"; discussing the manuscript versions of Septimius Felton; noting that part of the unpublished manuscript appeared in "Lippincott's Magazine about 1886."
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