BIB_ID
288419
Accession number
MA 588
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1858 Feb.-Mar.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 104 p.), bound ; 21.6 cm
Notes
Commonly referred to as volume 2 of Hawthorne's "French and Italian notebooks."
Hawthorne kept this notebook from February to March, 1858: the earliest entry (p. 1), which notes that the Hawthorne family has "been in Rome [for] a fortnight ... and [he] has seldom or never spent so wretched a time anywhere," is dated February 3d, 1858; and the final entry, which describes a pleasant visit to the Doria Pamfili palace with Sophia, and its bad weather, is dated March 10th, Wednesday [1858].
Inside the front cover is inscribed "N. Hawthorne / Boston U.S.A. / July 7, 1853."
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-103 by Hawthorne (with a note on the verso of p. 103 by Sophia Hawthorne, dated 22 June 1855). Front flyleaf, eight preliminary leaves, final leaf and back flyleaf excised. With childish scribbles on the inside of the back cover.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "French and Italian notebooks," which are described in five individual records (MA 587-591).
Hawthorne kept this notebook from February to March, 1858: the earliest entry (p. 1), which notes that the Hawthorne family has "been in Rome [for] a fortnight ... and [he] has seldom or never spent so wretched a time anywhere," is dated February 3d, 1858; and the final entry, which describes a pleasant visit to the Doria Pamfili palace with Sophia, and its bad weather, is dated March 10th, Wednesday [1858].
Inside the front cover is inscribed "N. Hawthorne / Boston U.S.A. / July 7, 1853."
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered 1-103 by Hawthorne (with a note on the verso of p. 103 by Sophia Hawthorne, dated 22 June 1855). Front flyleaf, eight preliminary leaves, final leaf and back flyleaf excised. With childish scribbles on the inside of the back cover.
Part of the collection of Hawthorne's "French and Italian notebooks," which are described in five individual records (MA 587-591).
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 in Rome with his wife and children. Recording observations and describing frequent walks.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (23.2 cm)
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