BIB_ID
288435
Accession number
MA 611.8
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1851 Sept. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 24.6 cm
Notes
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).
Provenance
By descent to Sophia Hawthorne; by descent to Julian Hawthorne; Stephen H. Wakeman; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Thanking her for her letter; saying that he thinks it is better that they do not meet: "You know me now by some of the genuine traits of my mind and heart. Were we to meet, you would remember me only by a few superficial features"; commenting on her handwriting.
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