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Box 2

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 83
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)], 14 October 1865

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 83, Item: 83A
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Is glad he shares her feeling about retaining the short sentences. Sends part of the Main record. Feels Hawthorne "reveals himself exquisitely in these papers; as no other person could portray him." Refers to "Passages from Hawthorne’s Note-Books, No.2" (In the Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1866). 4 p.

Dates: 14 October 1865
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 James Thomas Fields; [(Concord)], 20 October 1865

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 83, Item: 83B
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Has been ill but sends another twenty pages. Is driven to a sort of necessity to keep copying; thinks walks were never transformed into language before. Refers to: "Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Book, No.4" (In the Atlantic Monthly, April 1866). 4 p.

Dates: 20 October 1865
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.