BIB_ID
288456
Accession number
MA 611.16
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
1862 Mar. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 15.2 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
Apologizing for misquoting [Ralph Waldo] Emerson; criticizing Emerson's support for John Brown; encouraging Woodman to favor [James Thomas] Fields "as a candidate for the club"; referring to [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow.
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