BIB_ID
288572
Accession number
MA 1220.5
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 May 27.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (24 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes sketches on p. 4, 6, 14-16, 18, and 23.
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).
The letter is signed on p. 16 and p. 24. Pages 17-24 are written from Boston but may belong to another letter.
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).
The letter is signed on p. 16 and p. 24. Pages 17-24 are written from Boston but may belong to another letter.
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
Summary
Noting that she put the wrong letters in her portefeuille and left "Mr. Bennock's letters of introduction to some gentlemen of Boston" at home; mentioning that Nathaniel Hawthorne secured a tour guide for them by meeting a man named Mr. Porter in a bookshop; reporting that Mr. Porter showed them a silk quilt "wrought by Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, while she was imprisoned in Fotheringay Castle"; describing in detail the other "treasures" Mr. Porter exhibited, including drawings by "the great masters," missals, and a book belonging to Queen Elizabeth; remarking that Mrs. Porter made a reference to The Scarlet Letter but "made no other allusion to Papa's authorship"; describing their visit to St. Botolph's Church; telling Una that they are going on to Peterboro, Nottingham, and Matlock.
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