BIB_ID
288559
Accession number
MA 1220.2
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 May 23-24.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (24 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes a drawing of a cathedral on p. 6 and small sketches on p. 17 and 20.
Part of a collection of 15 letters from Sophia Hawthorne to her daughter Una. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 1220.1-15).
Signed "Your own Mamma."
Part of a collection of 15 letters from Sophia Hawthorne to her daughter Una. Items in the collection are described in individual records (MA 1220.1-15).
Signed "Your own Mamma."
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
Summary
Noting, "I should not feel comfortable to be going about without you, if I did not know how tired you always get with sightseeing"; describing the Saturday evening street scene from her window and a band that played a piece by Beethoven; giving details of her visit to Lincoln Catherdral with Nathaniel and Julian Hawthorne; discussing damage to the Cathedral caused by Henry VIII and Oliver Cromwell; mentioning Sir Christopher Wren, who built the Cathedral's library; reporting that Julian "pilfered frightfully from the Cathedral, & [she] did not observe it. He did not suppose it any harm -- he has a bit of the Roman altar!"
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