BIB_ID
288413
Accession number
MA 611.1
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1819 Sept. 28.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 25.5 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Miss Maria L. Hathorne, Raymond, Maine."
Part of a collection of 19 autograph letters signed from Nathaniel Hawthorne, an engraving of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a typescript letter signed from his son, Julian Hawthorne. Items in the collection are described in 21 records (MA 611.1-21).
With postmark and seal.
Part of a collection of 19 autograph letters signed from Nathaniel Hawthorne, an engraving of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and a typescript letter signed from his son, Julian Hawthorne. Items in the collection are described in 21 records (MA 611.1-21).
With postmark and seal.
Provenance
By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Telling her that he does "not know what to do with [him]self" in Salem and wishes that he "was but in Raymond and [he] should be happy"; listing books he has read, including [Sir Walter Scott's] Waverley, [Ann Radcliffe's] The mysteries of Udolpho, [Tobias Smollett's] The adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom and The adventures of Roderick Random, and the Arabian Nights; quoting some lines of poetry; telling her she may show this letter to their mother, Elizabeth Hawthorne.
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