BIB_ID
288432
Accession number
MA 611.7
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1844 Aug. 19.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
Docketed.
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
Saying that he does not think they should continue to be lenient with Loring, a debtor; noting that "it strikes [him] as hardly fair, that a debtor should keep a horse for his private pleasure ... while the creditor trudges about with a hole in his cowhide boot"; mentioning another debtor named Muzzy; noting that he will invite him over for dinner once they replace their servant; mentioning that [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow had a son.
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