BIB_ID
288352
Accession number
MA 569
Display Date
1842-1852.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
2 v. (ca. 268 p.), bound : ill. ; 24.5-31.4 cm
Notes
Portions of entries in both volumes canceled in black or blue ink by Sophia Hawthorne; some pages and portions of pages in the first journal (MA 580) excised by Sophia Hawthorne.
The journals are cataloged individually in two records (MA 580 and MA 569).
With sketches by the Hawthorne children.
The journals are cataloged individually in two records (MA 580 and MA 569).
With sketches by the Hawthorne children.
Provenance
By descent to Julian Hawthorne; sold in 1903 by Julian to Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
Collection consists of two journals kept jointly by Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne, recording daily activities and events in their lives, describing the natural world and observing their young children.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine boxes
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