BIB_ID
193367
Accession number
MA 5015
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1843 Dec. 10.
Credit line
Purchase, Goldsmith Fund; 1997.
Description
1 item (6 p. on 2 folded leaves) ; 16.5 cm.
Notes
Address leaf torn.
With address panel: "Mrs. R. W. Hooper / Winter St. / Boston."
Written on two different types of stationery, each with an embossed flower in upper left corner.
With address panel: "Mrs. R. W. Hooper / Winter St. / Boston."
Written on two different types of stationery, each with an embossed flower in upper left corner.
Summary
Thanking her for a gift of socks for her new baby [Una], reflecting at length upon her happiness in marriage ("GOD alone knows why I am so blest--why suns are perpetually rising on mid-noons in my heart and life"), praising her husband [Nathaniel] extravagantly ("He is so poetic, so etherial in his nature, of such noble healthfulness of mind and spirit, that truth and beauty shine through him unclouded"), anticipating the birth of her own child and looking forward to seeing Hooper's new baby.
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