BIB_ID
288411
Accession number
MA 586
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1856-1857.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 261 p.), bound ; 23.1 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 1-260 by Hawthorne (repeating number 71 for 73 and 257 before 258). A strip of about 4 cm excised from the middle of p. 193-194.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from June, 1856, to May, 1857: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes his trip to Gloucester from Liverpool (noting that "English railway carriages seem to [Hawthorne] more tiresome than [American ones]"), is dated June 29th, 1856, Saturday; and the final entry, which describes his trip from Southport to Lincoln, is dated Friday, May 22nd, [1857], at Lincoln.
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 1-260 by Hawthorne (repeating number 71 for 73 and 257 before 258). A strip of about 4 cm excised from the middle of p. 193-194.
Hawthorne kept this notebook from June, 1856, to May, 1857: the earliest entry (p. 1), which describes his trip to Gloucester from Liverpool (noting that "English railway carriages seem to [Hawthorne] more tiresome than [American ones]"), is dated June 29th, 1856, Saturday; and the final entry, which describes his trip from Southport to Lincoln, is dated Friday, May 22nd, [1857], at Lincoln.
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, 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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