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Creator
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Peabody, EP (1804)
Physical description
323 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an author, the mother of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (1804-1894), and the mother-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence. It contains letters by the author dating from 1824 to 1852, to her daughters Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Mary Mann, and Elizabeth Peabody, as well as two letters from Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; one to her sister Mary, and one to her sister Elizabeth. Some of these letters were considered part of Miss Elizabeth Palmer Peabody's "Cuba journal." There are also letters to Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody from Julian Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, Mary Peabody Mann, and U. Russell, dating from 1828 to 1852.

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials is from William Deming, [--?] Hawkins, Joan Howe, Horace Mann, and W. T. H. Howe.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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