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Creator
Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, S
Physical description
1,525 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.

Sponsor
Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
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 that consists of manuscripts and a typescript, correspondence, diaries for 1829 and 1859, seventeen journals kept from 1829 to 1869, notebooks, commonplace books, financial documents, and pictorial works.

Biographical/historical information

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne was an American writer and the wife of the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection that consists of manuscripts and a typescript, correspondence to, from, and about the author, diaries for 1829 and 1859, seventeen journals kept from 1829 to 1869, notebooks, commonplace books, financial documents, and pictorial works. The collection includes seventeen original pencil drawings dating from 1832 to 1833, holograph manuscripts of poems, copies of essays, riddles, and other miscellaneous manuscript material. The collection also includes one emended typescript for Louise Hall Tharp's "The Peabody Sisters of Salem." The bulk of the collection includes correspondence by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne to Mary Wilder White Foote, to her sister-in-law Elizabeth M. Hawthorne; to her son Julian; to her husband Nathaniel Hawthorne; to her daughter Una; to her sister Mary T. Peabody Mann; to her mother Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; to her sister Elizabeth; to her brother George; to her father, Dr. Nathaniel Peabody; to William D. Ticknor; and to others. The letters also include correspondence from N. G. Allen to Mary Peabody Mann; from S. S. Forbes to Mary Peabody Mann; from Samuel Foster Haven to the author's sister, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; from R. H. Lathrop to the author's daughter, Una Hawthorne; from John Louis O'Sullivan to William Prichard; and others relating to Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. There are letters to Sophia Hawthorne from Henry Arthur Bright, Susan Cabot, Mary Abigail Dodge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Anna B. Greene, Lydia Haven, members of the Hawthorne family including Elizabeth Manning, Julian, Maria Louisa, Nathaniel, and Una, as well as George Stillman Hillard, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Elizabeth Hoar, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Mary Peabody Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Nathaniel Peabody, Sarah Shaw, George Palmer Tyler, and others, dating from 1822 to 1870.

The Sophia Peabody Hawthorne collection of papers is arranged in four series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

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

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

Alternative form available

Some items available on microfilm under classmark *ZZ-11237, *ZZ-35812, *ZZ-34613, *ZZ-32027, *ZZ-31019, *ZZ-28141, *ZZ-13143, *ZZ-35221, *ZZ-34960, *ZZ-27973, *ZZ-33450, *ZZ-9769, *ZZ-25208, *ZZ-10240, *ZZ-30529. Contact the Photographic Services Department for details. Photographic Services, Room 68. The New York Public Library. Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street. New York, NY 10018. Telephone: 212-930-0808 Fax: 212-221-3423 Email: photoservices@nypl.org