Skip to main content

Box 1

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871.

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 43
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)], 25 January [1864]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 43, Item: 43A
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Thanks her for the better photograph; has been too ill to write. Sees no hope of any "satisfactory interchange" except in the better land. Mentions their plans for a fair for AfricanAmerican children. Signed "S.H." 4 p.

Dates: 25 January [1864]
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)], [January c.1864]

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 43, Item: 43B
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Neither she nor Mr. Hawthorne can come to Boston. Hopes to get her illustrated Gaffer Grey for Mrs. Fields. Describes Julian's illumination for "Ring, out, wild bells" [intended for the fair for African American children]. Dated "Saturday." Pen and ink sketch by Sophia Hawthorne. 4 p.

Dates: [January c.1864]
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.