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Creator
Hawthorne, Maria Louisa, d. 1852
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, M
Physical description
71 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
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence and miscellaneous manuscript material.

Biographical/historical information

Maria Louisa Hawthorne was the sister of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence and miscellaneous manuscript material. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence by Maria Louisa to her mother Elizabeth Clarke Manning, her sister Elizabeth M. Hawthorne, her brother Nathaniel Hawthorne, and her sister-in-law Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. There are letters to Maria Louisa Hawthorne from her nephew Julian and her sister-in-law Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, dating from 1843 to 1852.

The Maria Louisa Hawthorne collection of papers are arranged in three series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by William Deming 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

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature