BIB_ID
288396
Accession number
MA 583
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1855 July-Oct.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 265 p.), bound ; 23 cm
Notes
Hawthorne kept this notebook from July to October, 1855: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to Lichfield, is dated Wednesday, July 4th, 1855; and the final entry, which describes a trip with the entire family to Southampton, is dated October 11th, Thursday [1855].
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-263 by Hawthorne (repeating numbers 248 and 249 before 250).
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-263 by Hawthorne (repeating numbers 248 and 249 before 250).
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
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 daily activities and excursions with his wife and children. Recording observations, especially from his frequent walks.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (24.5 cm)
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