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Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Dates: 1851-1904
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.11, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne family letters to James and Annie Fields

Hawthorne, Sophia. 1809-1871. A.L.S. to Annie Adams Fields; [(Concord)], 17 March 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 30, Item: 30A
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Finds she must defer her visit as Rose has a feverish cold. A "superior maid" has just dropped into her hands. 4 p.

Dates: 17 March 1863
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.11, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne family letters to James and Annie Fields / Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871.

Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871. A.L.S. to Annie Adams Fields; [(Concord)], 23 March 1863

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 30, Item: 30B
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Tells how she cured Rose's fever with her homeopathic remedies. Thanks Mr. Fields for the set of Hawthorne's works. Has been studying [Francis] Bacon and finds it idle to judge except from the "loftiest pinnacles of Imagination." 8 p.

Dates: 23 March 1863
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.11, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne family letters to James and Annie Fields / Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871.