BIB_ID
288590
Accession number
MA 1220.8
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 June 26.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (32 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes sketches on p. 11 and 29.
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."
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."
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
Summary
Saying she felt badly about leaving Una this morning; telling her not to go to church if it is too hot and to go to the bathhouse if she can't bathe in the sea; thanking Mary for bringing her portefeuille; giving an account of their trip to Carlisle from Liverpool; mentioning Nathaniel and Julien Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, and Herman Melville; describing their visit to Carlisle Castle; observing that Queen Mary Stuart was confined in Carlisle Castle; discussing the history of Carlisle; giving details of their visit to Carlisle Cathedral.
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