BIB_ID
288617
Accession number
MA 1220.13
Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.
Display Date
1857 July 2-3.
Credit line
Purchased, 1947.
Description
1 item (33 p.) : ill. ; 19.9 and 17.9 cm
Notes
Includes a sketch on p. 28 and an engraving of a seashore scene ("Rhyl, North Wales") at the end. Also includes a pressed flower between p. 30 and 31.
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 "Ever your affectionate Mamma."
Written on stationery with an engraving of a waterfall at the top of p. 1 entitled, "Inversnaid, Loch Lomond."
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 "Ever your affectionate Mamma."
Written on stationery with an engraving of a waterfall at the top of p. 1 entitled, "Inversnaid, Loch Lomond."
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
Summary
Noting that she, Nathaniel, and Julian Hawthorne have just arrived "at the head of Loch Lomond, ... into scenes made classic by Walter Scott and by Wordsworth"; quoting Wordsworth; giving details of their trip from Dumbarton to Loch Lomond; mentioning Tobias Smollett and Rob Roy; describing their steamer trip up Loch Lomond and their walk to Inverarnan.
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