BIB_ID
288568
Accession number
MA 1220.4
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 May 26-27.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (11 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes an engraving of St. Botolph's Church by Greig on p. 11.
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
Describing a miserable steamer trip with Nathaniel and Julian Hawthorne along the river Witham from Lincoln to Boston; mentioning St. Botolph's Church and discussing the origin of the name Boston; noting that John Cotton, former Vicar of St. Botolph's, "went to Boston, Massachusetts, because he dissented from the Church."
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