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Creator
Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, U
Physical description
321 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 manuscripts, correspondence, diaries for 1869 and 1874, and a notebook dated 1859.

Biographical/historical information

Una Hawthorne was the eldest daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence to, from, and about the author, diaries for 1869 and 1874, and a notebook dated 1859. The correspondence includes letters from Una Hawthorne, dating from [1851] to 1867, to her aunt Elizabeth M. Hawthorne, her brother Julian Hawthorne, her father Nathaniel Hawthorne, her mother Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, her sister Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, her cousin Horace Mann, Jr., her aunt Mary T. Mann, her aunt Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, W. D. Ticknor, and others. There are letters to Una Hawthorne from Robert Browning and others, including members of the Hawthorne family, including Julian, Elizabeth Manning, Sophia Peabody, and Rose Lathrop, dating from 1857 to 1877.

The Una Hawthorne collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

The bulk of the materials was formerly owned by William Deming, Joan Howe, W. T. H. Howe, and Horace Mann.

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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