BIB_ID
104047
Accession number
MA 189
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1856 Aug. 17.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Description
1 item (13 p.), bound ; 23.4 cm
Notes
At top of first page: "Dedicated to Mrs. J. P. Heywood."
Hawthorne's autograph diary of this date says "Wrote Ghost story of Dr. Harris in Mrs. Heywood's album." Hawthorne was American consul at Liverpool in 1856, and John Pemberton Heywood was a banker in Liverpool. According to a note preceding the first printing of this story, Hawthorne first told the story over dinner at the Heywood house; Mrs. Heywood then asked him to write it down for her. Cf. The Nineteenth Century, v. 175.
Written on 13 pages of a much larger volume (ca. 300 pages). The rest of the volume is blank.
Hawthorne's autograph diary of this date says "Wrote Ghost story of Dr. Harris in Mrs. Heywood's album." Hawthorne was American consul at Liverpool in 1856, and John Pemberton Heywood was a banker in Liverpool. According to a note preceding the first printing of this story, Hawthorne first told the story over dinner at the Heywood house; Mrs. Heywood then asked him to write it down for her. Cf. The Nineteenth Century, v. 175.
Written on 13 pages of a much larger volume (ca. 300 pages). The rest of the volume is blank.
Provenance
Mrs. John Pemberton Heywood (arms of Mrs. John Pemberton Heywood combined with those of her husband and motto "Alte Volo" on lower cover); her sister the Hon. Mrs. Richard Denman [née Emma Jones]; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer J. Pearson & Co., 1907.
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (25.6 cm)
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