BIB_ID
288373
Accession number
MA 578
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1837-1838.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 151 p.), bound ; 19.8 cm
Notes
Hawthorne kept this notebook from July 1837 to September 1838: the earliest entry (p. 1) is dated July 5th 1837, and the final entry notes that Hawthorne left North Adams on 11 September and "reached home" on 24 September 1838.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "American notebooks," which are described in four individual records.
Some portions of text canceled with dark brown or black ink. Leaves numbered on the rectos, 1-80. Leaves excised in the following locations: 2 leaves between leaves numbered 3 and 4; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 9 and 10; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 21 and 22; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 41 and 42; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 56 and 57; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 66 and 67.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "American notebooks," which are described in four individual records.
Some portions of text canceled with dark brown or black ink. Leaves numbered on the rectos, 1-80. Leaves excised in the following locations: 2 leaves between leaves numbered 3 and 4; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 9 and 10; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 21 and 22; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 41 and 42; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 56 and 57; 1 leaf between leaves numbered 66 and 67.
Provenance
By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection in 1909.
Summary
Describing excursions and travels, and recording observations and ideas for future stories. Noting on Monday, 31 July 1837, that Hawthorne "bathed on Friday, and yesterday," and that there was "nothing remarkable to record."
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (21.5 cm)
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