Research Catalog

Title

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne collection of papers, 1775-1949 bulk (1822-1871).

Author

Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Allen, N. G.
• Bright, Henry Arthur, 1830-1884.
• Cabot, Susan C.
• Dodge, Mary Abigail, 1833-1896.
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
• Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
• Foote, Mary Wilder, 1810-1857.
• Forbes, S. S.
• Greene, Anna B.
• Haven, Lydia G. Sears.
• Haven, Samuel F. (Samuel Foster), 1806-1881.
• Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning, 1802-1883.
• Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934.
• Hawthorne, Maria Louisa, -1852.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
• Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877.
• Hoar, E. H. (Elizabeth Hallett), 1822-1917.
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
• Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887.
• O'Sullivan, John L. (John Louis), 1813-1895.
• Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1778-1853.
• Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.
• Peabody, George, 1804-1892.
• Peabody, Nathaniel, 1774-1855.
• Prichard, William, -1815.
• Shaw, Sarah.
• Tharp, Louise Hall, 1898-
• Ticknor, William Davis, 1810-1864.
• Tyler, Geo. P. (George Palmer), 1809-1896.

Description

1,525 items.

Subjects

• Journals (Personal narratives)
• Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871
• Notebooks
• Correspondence
• Diaries
• Commonplace books

Genre/Form

• Commonplace books.
• Correspondence.
• Diaries.
• Journals (Personal narratives).
• Notebooks.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Biography (note)

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

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials is from Horace Mann, [--?] Smythe, [--?] Hawkins, William Deming, W. T. H. Howe, Joan Howe, and Owen D. Young.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, S

OCLC

NYPW04-A52

Author

Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.

Title

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne collection of papers, 1775-1949 bulk (1822-1871).

Summary

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. 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.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

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

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Added Author

Allen, N. G.

Bright, Henry Arthur, 1830-1884.

Cabot, Susan C.

Dodge, Mary Abigail, 1833-1896.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.

Foote, Mary Wilder, 1810-1857.

Forbes, S. S.

Greene, Anna B.

Haven, Lydia G. Sears.

Haven, Samuel F. (Samuel Foster), 1806-1881.

Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning, 1802-1883.

Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934.

Hawthorne, Maria Louisa, -1852.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877.

Hoar, E. H. (Elizabeth Hallett), 1822-1917.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887.

O'Sullivan, John L. (John Louis), 1813-1895.

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1778-1853.

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.

Peabody, George, 1804-1892.

Peabody, Nathaniel, 1774-1855.

Prichard, William, -1815.

Shaw, Sarah.

Tharp, Louise Hall, 1898- Peabody sisters of Salem.

Ticknor, William Davis, 1810-1864.

Tyler, Geo. P. (George Palmer), 1809-1896.

Deming, William. Former owner

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Howe, Joan. Former owner

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859. Former owner

Young, Owen D., 1874- Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, S