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Box 2

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Hawthorne, Sophia, 1809-1871.

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 88
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)], [December c.1865]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 88, Item: 88A
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Declares the photograph was returned in a wretched condition. Is not fit to sit up but had "to moan" about it. Probably refers to the photograph of Hawthorne set from England by Henry Arthur Bright. An engraving of it appears in Good Company, Boston 1866. 3 p.

Dates: [December c.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)], [December c.1865]

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 88, Item: 88B
Call Number: MS C.1.11
Scope and Contents

Fears the engraving misses the delicacy of the photograph; the mouth is distorted. Probably refers to the engraving of Hawthorne made from the photograph taken by John Edwin Mayall and printed in Good Company, Boston 1866. Mutilated. 4 p.

Dates: [December c.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.