BIB_ID
288574
Accession number
MA 1220.6
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 May 28.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (36 p.) : ill. ; 17.8 cm
Notes
Includes sketches of Peterborough Cathedral on p. 8, 16-8, 20, 26-7, and 33.
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 loving Mamma."
The bottom third of p. 7-8 has been excised.
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 loving Mamma."
The bottom third of p. 7-8 has been excised.
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
Summary
Describing the spring scenery in the English countryside; giving details of her visit with Nathaniel and Julian Hawthorne to the cathedral in Peterborough; noting that Mary, Queen of Scots and Catherine of Aragon were buried in Peterborough Cathedral; explaining the history of the Cathedral and the town.
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