BIB_ID
447514
Accession number
MA 23854
Creator
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Display Date
Royal Leamington Spa, England, 1859 November 15.
Credit line
Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2022.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 18.3 x 11.1 cm
Notes
In the letter, Hawthorne refers a group of reviews by Lucas collectively entitled "The Fathers of New England" that appeared in The Edinburgh Review, 102 (October 1855): 542-572.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2609 (June 16, 2022), Lot 234.
Summary
Responding to Lucas's inquiry about whether he might write "another Puritan story"; explaining "My mind, at this time, is not in a productive state; for I have worked it very hard and continuously during two or three months past, and I promise myself to be idle during the rest of my stay in England"; writing about how much he enjoys living in England; commenting that New England history "affords very little variety of subject for the Romance-writer."
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