BIB_ID
288398
Accession number
MA 584
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1855-1856.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 252 p.), bound ; 22.8 cm
Notes
High reserve. Consultation of this collection item is restricted due to its condition.
A very few portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-243 by Hawthorne (repeating numbers 106-115 between 115 and 116). Page 243 and remaining leaves blank.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from October, 1855 to June, 1856: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to Worcester with Julian, is dated October 14th Sunday [1855]; and the final entry describes a boardinghouse near Southampton, where the Hawthorne family will be vacationing, whose proprietor Mrs. Hume is "good and well-meaning" but "on the whole, a wearisome and unintentionally annoying sort of person," is dated June 18th Wednesday [1856].
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
A very few portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-243 by Hawthorne (repeating numbers 106-115 between 115 and 116). Page 243 and remaining leaves blank.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from October, 1855 to June, 1856: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to Worcester with Julian, is dated October 14th Sunday [1855]; and the final entry describes a boardinghouse near Southampton, where the Hawthorne family will be vacationing, whose proprietor Mrs. Hume is "good and well-meaning" but "on the whole, a wearisome and unintentionally annoying sort of person," is dated June 18th Wednesday [1856].
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 (24.4 cm)
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