BIB_ID
288392
Accession number
MA 582
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1854-1855.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 170 p.), bound ; 22.7 cm
Notes
A few portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-156 by Hawthorne (not numbering last page of text; repeating 16 and 17 before 19, repeating 91 between 92 and 93, repeating 107-116 between 116 and 117; repeating 148 before 149, and repeating 152-157 after 157). Leaf containing p. 112-113 excised and now held by the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library (cataloged as "One leaf, mutilated, from his Journal"). Single leaves excised between p. 111 and 114, and between p. 154 and 157.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from August, 1854, to July, 1854: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to the Zoological gardens with his son Julian, is dated August 8th [1854]; and the final entry, which describes a visit to Coventry with Julian, is dated Sunday, July 1st [1855]. Later entries written in bright blue ink.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
With accounts on a preliminary leaf.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from August, 1854, to July, 1854: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to the Zoological gardens with his son Julian, is dated August 8th [1854]; and the final entry, which describes a visit to Coventry with Julian, is dated Sunday, July 1st [1855]. Later entries written in bright blue ink.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
With accounts on a preliminary leaf.
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, especially with his son Julian, and daily activities, and recording observations and ideas for future stories. Noting (on June 11, 1855) that "Dickens evidently is not liked nor thought well of by his literary brethren--at least, the more eminent of them, whose reputation might interfere with his. Thackeray is much more to their taste. Perhaps it is for his moral benefit to have succeeded late."
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (24.4 cm)
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