Record ID:
288565
Accession number:
MA 1220.3
Credit:
Purchased, 1947.
Description:
1 item (19 p.) : ill. ; 17.9 cm
Notes:
Includes sketches on p. 10-13.
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).
Summary:
Continuing her description of Lincoln Cathedral; quoting John Ruskin; mentioning Great Tom, the largest bell in Lincoln Cathedral; describing a castle built by William the Conqueror and a Roman arch in Lincoln; noting that she and Nathaniel Hawthorne are making Julian "write a little journal" (see MA 1377, Julian's journal containing entries written in Lincoln); commenting on John of Gaunt's stables and "summer palace"; saying that they are going by steamboat from Lincoln to Boston.
Provenance:
Purchased from Henry Amelung Hawthorne, Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne's grandson, 1947.
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