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Creator
Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, J
Physical description
230 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 manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence, a journal for 1868 and 1869, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Julian Hawthorne was an American novelist, short story writer, biographer, essayist, and journalist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, typescripts, correspondence to, from, and about the author, a journal for 1868 and 1869, legal documents, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include poems, essays, articles, stories, lectures and criticism. The correspondence includes letters written by the author, dating from 1852 to 1908, to Mary Albertina Amelung Hawthorne, his father Nathaniel Hawthorne, his mother Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, his sister Una Hawthorne, DeWitt Miller, his grandmother Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and others. There are also letters relating to the author, dating from 1866 to [1879], between various individuals including Richard D. Blackmore and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. There are letters to Julian Hawthorne from Henry Mills Alden, Francis Bennoch, Bliss Carman, Thomas A. Edison, Eugene Field, Edward Kemeys, Herman Melville, Charles Scribner, and others, including members of the Hawthorne family, Sophia, Una, and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, dating from 1852 to 1908.

The Julian Hawthorne collection of papers are arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials is from William Deming, Joan Howe, and W. T. H. Howe. Some material contains Francis Wilson's autograph and bookplate.

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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