Journal kept jointly by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne : Concord, 1842-1843.

Notebook originally consisted of 68 leaves, nine to eleven of which have been entirely (five others partially) excised and destroyed. Leaves are missing at the following locations: one or two leaves between the front fly-leaf and first extant leaf of the notebook (numbered 2); one or two leaves between leaves numbered 8 and 9; one leaf between leaves numbered 14 and 14a; three or four leaves between leaves numbered 24 and 25; two or three leaves between leaves numbered 30 and 30a; one leaf between leaves numbered 48 and 49. Five additional leaves (numbered 29, 30, 49, 50, and 59) were excised but preserved and later tipped in. In addition to the excisions, numerous passages were obliterated with black or blue ink or altered through the careful superimposition of text. The author of the excisions, cancellations and superimpositions was probably Sophia Hawthorne.--Cf. Lawrence, p. 24-25.
Part of a collection of two journals kept jointly by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne. The journals are cataloged individually.
With sketch of a flower on leaf numbered 51, and with outlines of three arrowheads on the back paste-down.
Written from the summer of 1842 (the Hawthornes were married on 9 July; first dated entry, on leaf numbered 3, is from 5 August) to the Fall of 1843 (final entry, on leaf numbered 59, is dated 19 November).