BIB_ID
288603
Accession number
MA 1220.10
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 June 29-30.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (24 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes sketches on p. 18-9 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).
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 the trip from Mauchline to Ayr with Nathaniel and Julian Hawthorne; mentioning more sites related to Robert Burns; complaining about the rainy weather; describing a visit to Burns's birthplace; quoting poems by Burns; commenting on "a peculiar style in carrying about their babies" that she has observed in the women in Mauchline and Ayr.
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