BIB_ID
288410
Accession number
MA 585
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1857 May-Sept.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 263 p.), bound ; 23.1 cm
Notes
A very few portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-263 by Hawthorne (repeating number 156 before 157 and with 168-169 missing).
Hawthorne kept this notebook from May to September, 1857: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to the Lincoln Cathedral, is dated May 23d 1857; and the final entry, which describes fellow lodgers at Mrs. Blodget's Liverpool boardinghouse, is dated Septr 17th, Thursday [1857].
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "English notebooks," which are described in seven individual records (MA 581-587).
Hawthorne kept this notebook from May to September, 1857: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes a visit to the Lincoln Cathedral, is dated May 23d 1857; and the final entry, which describes fellow lodgers at Mrs. Blodget's Liverpool boardinghouse, is dated Septr 17th, Thursday [1857].
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 travels throughout England and Scotland, as well as excursions with his wife and children. Recording observations, especially from his frequent walks with Julian.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (24.7 cm)
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