BIB_ID
288441
Accession number
MA 611.9
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1852 Sept. 26.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.1 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
Asking him to get him "another pair of those three dollar boots" from a shoe seller in Salem; saying he was sorry to have missed his visit; asking about something Pike said "derogatory to the character of General [Franklin] P[ierce]."
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