BIB_ID
288428
Accession number
MA 590
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1858-1859.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (ca. 290 p.), bound ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Commonly referred to as volume 6 of Hawthorne's "French and Italian notebooks."
Hawthorne kept this notebook from July, 1858, to April, 1859: the earliest entry (p. [1]), which describes a visit with Sophia to the church of Santa Maria Novella, is dated July 4th, 1858; and the final entry, which describes the departure from Rome of Franklin Pierce, who, Hawthorne notes, seems "happier than [Hawthorne has] ever known him since [their] college days," is dated April 19th, Tuesday [1859]. There are no entries from the beginning of November to the end of February, when his daughter Una was taken seriously ill.
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered [1]-129, 140-310 by Hawthorne (repeating 161 for 163, 171 for 177, 301 followed by a second 301, no 303, 307 followed by a second 306, no 308).
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 July, 1858, to April, 1859: the earliest entry (p. [1]), which describes a visit with Sophia to the church of Santa Maria Novella, is dated July 4th, 1858; and the final entry, which describes the departure from Rome of Franklin Pierce, who, Hawthorne notes, seems "happier than [Hawthorne has] ever known him since [their] college days," is dated April 19th, Tuesday [1859]. There are no entries from the beginning of November to the end of February, when his daughter Una was taken seriously ill.
No portions of text fully canceled with dark brown or black ink. Pages numbered [1]-129, 140-310 by Hawthorne (repeating 161 for 163, 171 for 177, 301 followed by a second 301, no 303, 307 followed by a second 306, no 308).
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 and around Florence and Rome with his wife and children. Recording observations and describing their journeys to Siena, Radicofani, Viterbo, and Sette Vene.
Housed in
Red and grey quarter leather drop-spine box (23.8 cm)
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