BIB_ID
288600
Accession number
MA 1220.9
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 June 27-9.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (48 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes sketches on p. 24, 44, and 46.
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
Giving details of her voyage from Carlisle with Nathaniel and Julian Hawthorne, including descriptions of the Scottish countryside; mentioning Gretna Green and explaining that English couples came there to get married; discussing Robert Burns and the many places related to him that they visited in Mauchline; describing a four-hour church service with six sermons that she attended with Julian; quoting Robert Burns.
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