BIB_ID
104176
Accession number
MA 631.1
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
[ca. 1862].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 189 p.), bound ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Date is from Julian Hawthorne's note: the "Romance of 'Septimius Felton' [was] written in Concord, about 1862."
This manuscript was deciphered and transcribed by Una Hawthorne and Robert Browning after Nathaniel Hawthorne's death.
This manuscript was deciphered and transcribed by Una Hawthorne and Robert Browning after Nathaniel Hawthorne's death.
Provenance
By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
This volume contains Hawthorne's original sketch for the novel (2 p.), preliminary notes (4 p.), and a typed transcription of both (16 p.); autograph notes for the novel (14 p.); the autograph manuscript of the unpublished version of Septimius Felton (57 p.); and the autograph manuscript of the published version of Septimius Felton (94 [i.e. 92] p., with p. 67-8 missing).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (26.8 cm)
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