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Thaxter, Celia, 1835-1894. A.L.S. to Annie Fields; [Portsmouth, N.H.], 25 November 1877

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 121
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Thanks her for the rose-buds. Feels she ought to go to Newtonville. Describes her mother's funeral. (4 p.) With transcripton. Printed in part in Letters of Celia Thaxter, p. 89. Combined with that of 19 November 1877.

Dates: 25 November 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 [James and Annie Fields]; [Shoals, N.H.], 18-19 April 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 25
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Intends to send Michael Laird Simons just a few biographical details. Hopes to see the Fields over the 4th. Thinks it would be well to have the pictures in Among the Isles of Shoals rightly named. (8 p.)

Dates: 18-19 April 1873
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.N.S.  to Annie Fields;  Newtonwille, Mass., 7 October [1879]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6, Item: 147
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Wonders how Lou [Hunt] can drag her life after her; a word would have saved her husband a few weeks ago; now no anguish can reach him. (1 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 7 October [1879]
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.], 19 October 1874

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 71
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

The winter days have settled down; is reminded of a Siberian exile. Describes the group reading in her mother's room -- her brothers are considering a steam launch. Urges her to call on Mrs. Eichberg. Philip deNormandie is better; hears Lou Hunt looks miserably.  (4 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 19 October 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; [Portsmouth, N.H.], 27 November 1877

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5, Item: 122
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Intends to spend Thanksgiving with her boys [at Newtonville]. (1 p.) With transcripton.

Dates: 27 November 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; [Shoals, N.H.], 22 April 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 26
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Thinks Mrs. Fields's poem is "truly beautiful". Speaks of Mr. Thaxter's forbodings of an early death. Includes in a postscript that there is still no compensation for "Childlife". Refers to "Child-life at the Isles of Shoals" in Atlantic Monthly, May 1873, p. 532-539.

Dates: 22 April 1873
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.], 7 November 1874

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 72
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Thanks her for the "charming enclosure." [note of thanks to Genoa] Sends a sketch of a pimpernel and a poem [about a note in a bottle published in the Atlantic.]  (4 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 7 November 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; [Shoals, N.H.], 28 April 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 27
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Did not like "The Pimpernel" herself; thinks she is getting "too spooney". Does not wish Mr. Thaxter to know about her correspondence with [Michael Laird Simons?]. Sitll no check for "Childlife". v. Atlantic Monthly, August 1873, p. 180-181.

Dates: 28 April 1873
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.], 22 November 1874

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 73
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Expects Karl's return; is thankful for Mrs. Fields share in it. Mr. Thaxter would be angry if he knew; will "go home" when he departs.  (4 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: 22 November 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; [Portsmouth, November 1874]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 74
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Is on her way to town; will see Mr. Whittier in Amesbury. Mr. Thaxter is going to Jamaica.  (2 p.)  With transcription.

Dates: November 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; [Shoals, N.H.], 4 and [5 May] [1873]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 28
Call Number: MS C.1.38
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Sends her a pair of bracelets made of snail-shells. They have had a "preposterous snow-storm . . ." Is going landward with Jorge Edvardt Ingebertsen.  (3 p.)

Dates: 4 and [5 May] [1873]
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.], 11 & 13 May 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 29
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents Is pleased with the format of Among the Isles of Shoals. Thinks of going home but knows the family is comfortably cared for. Criticizes [ . . .] by Mrs. Fields because of the obscurity of the last two thirds. (4 p.) Incomplete. "While fainting day more light and more Yields to the climbing moon." ...
Dates: 11 & 13 May 1873
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. to [Annie Fields]; [n.p., Fall? 1874.]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 75
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Hopes to stay in Boston before "going back for the terrible winter". Mr. Thaxter and Roland will be on a sea voyage; John in Mexico. Hunt is much improved in health; has been living in Newburyport with Tuckerman.  (2 p.)  Fragment, incomplete.  With transcription.

Dates: Fall? 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]; [Newtonville, Mas.], 20 May 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 30
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Thanks her for a number of gifts. Cannot go to Rubinstein's concert. Has been asked by Scribner's to contribute to a new children's magazine [St. Nicholas?].  (3 p.)

Dates: 20 May 1873
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., Fall? 1874.]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 3, Item: 76
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Wonders at her audacity in criticizing Mrs. Fields' poems. "Lony" came back from the Independent. John's trip to Mexico is off.  (2 p.)  Fragment, incomplete.  With transcription.

Dates: Fall? 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]; [Shoals, N.H.], 29 May 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 31
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Has been ill from a drenching in an open boat. Prevented Loo [Hunt] from telling her story to Minnie Pratt. (6 p.)

Dates: 29 May 1873
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. to Annie Fields; [Shoals, N.H.], 11 June 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 32
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Must take Karl to a dentist in Portsmouth. Has been wondering where to put her on the 4th of July visit. Regrets "the mosaic beneath the western window" is torn up. (4 p.) Fragment, incomplete.

Dates: 11 June 1873
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.], 18 June 1873

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 33
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Describes her Portsmouth visit. Saw parchment manuscripts signed by Ferdinando Gorges, etc. "Fell hopelessly in love with Kittery Point."  (4 p.)

Dates: 18 June 1873
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.N.S. to Annie [Fields]; Shoals, N.H., 19 June [1873]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 34
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Referring to Mr. Whittier "coming here to be with you". 1 s. (1 p.) With transcription.

Dates: 19 June [1873]
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., 26 June [1873]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2, Item: 35
Call Number: MS C.1.38
Scope and Contents

Referring to a poem sent to "The Independent with all its imperfections on its head . . ." (2 p.)

Dates: 26 June [1873]
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.38, Celia Thaxter correspondence with Annie Fields / Folder 2