BIB_ID
288424
Accession number
MA 589
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1858 Apr.-May.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 92 p.), bound ; 25 cm
Notes
Commonly referred to as volume 4 of Hawthorne's "French and Italian notebooks."
Hawthorne kept this notebook from April to May, 1858: the earliest entry (p. [1]), which describes a "moonlit ramble" through Rome with Sophia, is dated April 25th, Sunday [1858]; and the final entry, which describes an incident with beggars near the Lake of Thrasimene, is dated Pasignano, May 29th, Saturday [1858].
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered [1]-83, 86-94 by Hawthorne.
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 April to May, 1858: the earliest entry (p. [1]), which describes a "moonlit ramble" through Rome with Sophia, is dated April 25th, Sunday [1858]; and the final entry, which describes an incident with beggars near the Lake of Thrasimene, is dated Pasignano, May 29th, Saturday [1858].
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered [1]-83, 86-94 by Hawthorne.
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 their journeys to Civita Castellana, Terni, Foligno, Perugia, and Pasignano.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (26.6 cm)
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