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The Blithedale romance : Concord, Mass. : autograph manuscript signed, 1852 May.

BIB_ID
103908
Accession number
MA 573
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1852 May.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (207 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
As noted by Hawthorne in the Preface (dated Concord, May, 1852), "the author does not wish to deny that he had [Brook Farm] in mind, and that ... he has occasionally availed himself of his actual reminisces" in writing the Blithedale Romance.
On title page, below "The Blithedale Romance," an original title "Hollingsworth: a Romance" was crossed out by Hawthorne.
Written on the rectos and one verso of 200 leaves, numbered 1-201 by Hawthorne, and with signed title page, Table of Contents (2 p.), and Preface (3 p.) preceding the text.
Provenance
Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
With title page, table of contents, preface, and text.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (27.3 cm)