BIB_ID
288537
Accession number
MA 631.3
Creator
Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
Display Date
1861 Nov. 5.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.7 cm
Notes
Bound with the autograph manuscript of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Septimius Felton (MA 631.1).
Hawthorne has written notes for Septimius Felton on the verso of both pages of the letter. His notes also appear on the recto of p. 1.
Hawthorne has written notes for Septimius Felton on the verso of both pages of the letter. His notes also appear on the recto of p. 1.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Wakeman Collection, 1909.
Summary
Asking to put Hawthorne's story [possibly Septimius Felton] in his prospectus for 1862; giving his reasons for wanting to market Hawthorne's story; assuring him that he would not do "anything that would in the slightest degree dull the edge of your fine genius."
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