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Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S.  to Annie Fields; [Newtonville, Mass.], 29 February 1878

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 127
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Found the house in confusion. Roland was suddenly taken by malarial chill. Is going to make an effort to ride out of doors. opes to go to the Eichbergs for music on Sunday.  (3 p.)  With transcripton.

Dates: 29 February 1878
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 6

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Portsmouth, ca. 9 March 1875]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 83
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Sends a copy of "Saw-Dust" mistitled "Star-Dust". Read like a Trojan at the "Eclectic."  (2 p.)  Dated "Tuesday night."  With transcription.

Dates: ca. 9 March 1875]
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 4

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Newtonville, Mass.], 20 May [1872]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 6
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Apologizes for not answering a note. Plans to go to "her island" next week.  (1 p.)

Dates: 20 May [1872]
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [Annie and James Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 6 July 1872

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 7
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Was never so disappointed; went to the boat to meet them. Sitll hopes they will come. 1 s. (3 p.) With transcription.

Dates: 6 July 1872
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 17 & 24 July 1872

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 8
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Criticises Mrs. Fields "little poem" (no title given); mentions her own sales. Mr. Whittier has made "quite a little visit" and Mr. Hunt has arrived. [Ellen] Robbins is coming to paint; altogether there are 450 people. 1 s. (3 p.) With transcription.

Dates: 17 & 24 July 1872
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 20 February 1874

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 53
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Sympathizes with her about Aldrich "rumpus." Longs to see [Charles] Kingsley. Would like to consult the Fields about a third edition of Poems.  (4 p.)  With transcription

Dates: 20 February 1874
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 3

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Isle of Shoals. N.H.], n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: ix
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Giving the boat schedule for Shoals and is worried about how James Fields will get to the island. 1 s. (1 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: n.d.
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 1

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Portsmouth], 11 March 1875

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 84
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Thanks her for the lace. Asks about the poem Saw-Dust and an envelope of postage stamps. Mrs. Dodge is going to take Piccola.  (2 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 11 March 1875
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 4

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 19 March [18]77

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 104
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Is glad she liked the tile; sends a vase originally intended for her mother. Is not writing her life; quotes from the Advertiser.  (4 p.)  "I married the first man, etc." With transcripton.

Dates: 19 March [18]77
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 5

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S.  to Annie Fields; [Newtonville, Mass.], 7 March 1878

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 128
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Asks her to forward a sonnet to Modjeska. Thinks roland is better. Had a two hour ride. Signed "C.T."  (2 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 7 March 1878
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 6

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [Annie Fields]; [n.p., ca. October 1872]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 9
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Refers to Howells and her sonnets, and to her getting "a perfect Birman wood of house plants". 1 s. (2 p.) Incomplete, mutilated. With transcription.

Dates: ca. October 1872]
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Newtonville, Mass.], 3 October [1872]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 10
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

About the drudgery of housework. Scribner's has asked her to write for them; paid her $30 for "Guendolen". Quotes a remark of William Hunt's. 1 s. ( 4 p.) W. transcription.  v. Scribner's Monthly, November 1872, p. 78.

Dates: 3 October [1872]
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [Annie Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 12 & 16 March 1874

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 54
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Longs to see Canon Kingsley but cannot leave her mother except with an experienced person. Speaks of Whittier's grief at Sumner's death. Dreams of Lydia Hunt. Is considering calling the new edition Poems of Sea and Shore.  (4 p.) Old MS # 54.  With transcription

Dates: 12 & 16 March 1874
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 3

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.N.S. to Annie Fields; n.p., n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: x
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Writing to say that she will be away longer than she thought and asks that word to be sent to her. 1 s. (2 p.) With transcription.

Dates: n.d.
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 1

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie [Fields]; Portsmouth, 11 - 12 March [1875]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4, Item: 85
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Refers to her journey with Mrs. DeN., and an offering of $125 for her Ms.  (2 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 11 - 12 March [1875]
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 4

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to [James Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 22 March 1877

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 105
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Asks him to look over a song. Speaks of the death of Charles Cowden Clarke.  (1 p.)  With transcripton.

Dates: 22 March 1877
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 5

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S.  to Annie Fields; [Appledore, N.H.], 12 April [18]78

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 129
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Tells her the song sparrows fill the house. Has been arranging and locking up her mother's things. Hopes to pland her garden; has put the cottage in order.  (4 p)  With transcription.

Dates: 12 April [18]78
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 6

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S.  to Annie Fields; [Portsmouth, N.H.], 16 April 1878

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 130
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Has felt a great longing for her mother; could not bear to leave [the Shoals]. Has not had one owrd from Newtonville.  Signed "C."  (3 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 16 April 1878
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 6

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 5 December 1872

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 11
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Sends a poem composed when the wind was howling "its dreariest". Cannot leave until her mother is about; inquires, in a postscript, about the Hunts. 1 s. (4 p.) With transcription.

Dates: 5 December 1872
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2

Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; n.p., n.d.

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 1, Item: xi
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Asking that she take charge of the enclosed [poem]. 1 s. (1 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: n.d.
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 1