Record ID:
288416
Accession number:
MA 611.2
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.7 x 20.3 cm
Notes:
With a list in pencil of Voltaire's works on the verso, presumably made by his mother.
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).
Summary:
Mentioning his uncles; noting that his younger sister Louisa "seems very well contented" and is "much pleased with going to Dancing School"; telling her he has learned to swim; expressing his wish that his older sister Elizabeth would write to him.
Provenance:
By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
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