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Box 2

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Hawthrone, Sophia, 1809-1871.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 58
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 James Thomas Fields; [(Concord)], 9 June 1864

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 58, Item: 58A
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Did not realize that Mr. Hawthorne had decided to print the first chapter [of the Dolliver Romance]. Speaks of the confidence her husband had in Ticknor & Fields. Trusts that [Oliver Wendell] Holmes will not write his physical condition. Signed "S.H." For the Dolliver Romance and Holmes's article on Hawthorne see the Atlantic Monthly, July 1864.

Dates: 9 June 1864
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.11, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne family letters to James and Annie Fields / Hawthrone, Sophia, 1809-1871.

Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871. A.N.S. James Thomas Fields; [(Concord)], 11 June 1864

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 58, Item: 58B
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Does not think the photograph is like [Nathaniel Hawthorne], particularly the eyes and chin; hopes [John Adams] Whipple has not lost his attempt. Una prefers the Washington vignette [taken by Brady in 1862?] Signed "S.H." Unidentified photograph; cf. Hawthorne Centenary at Salem, p.93.

Dates: 11 June 1864
Found in: Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections / MS C.1.11, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne family letters to James and Annie Fields / Hawthrone, Sophia, 1809-1871.