BIB_ID
288388
Accession number
MA 581
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1853-1854.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (183 p.), bound ; 20.3 cm
Notes
A few portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-182 by Hawthorne (not numbering last page of text; mistakenly numbering 103 as 101). About one-quarter of a leaf (p. 29-30) excised. Pencil notations throughout, especially in first half of the journal.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from August, 1853, to July, 1854: the earliest entry (p. 1), which mentions the Hawthorne's passage to England and his chambers at the Consulate, is dated Thursday, August 4th [1853]; and the final entry, which describes a trip to Wales, is dated July 19th [18]54.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
With accounts on preliminary flyleaf, indicating that £680 equalled $3291.20.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from August, 1853, to July, 1854: the earliest entry (p. 1), which mentions the Hawthorne's passage to England and his chambers at the Consulate, is dated Thursday, August 4th [1853]; and the final entry, which describes a trip to Wales, is dated July 19th [18]54.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
With accounts on preliminary flyleaf, indicating that £680 equalled $3291.20.
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 daily activities, including the affairs of his office. Recording observations, describing and sometimes disparaging the British and their weather, and recording ideas for future stories.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (22 cm)
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