Research Catalog

Title

Copy of a letter in the hand of his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne : [Lenox, Mass.], to [Caroline] Tappan, [1851] Sept. 5.

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

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Additional Authors

Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.

Description

1; 25 cm. +

Summary

Hawthorne complains about Tappan's treatment of him and his family, especially in regard to ownership of the apples from the apple trees on the rented property.

Note

• 2 leaves (first 4 p. are on 1 leaf folded in half).
• Caroline Tappan owned the "Little Red Shanty" cottage at Lenox, Mass., where the Hawthornes lived and where Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales.
• With George Parsons Lathrop envelope (name printed with return address of city and state) in which is written in blue pen the letter's description. The poet and editor George Parsons Lathrop was married in London, September 11, 1871, to Rose Hawthorne, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Provenance (note)

• Purchased at Bloomsbury Auctions, December 8, 2010.

Publications (note)

• A few lines from the letter appear in James R. Mellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980), p. 380; see also p. 639.

Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Hawthorne, N. A.l.s. to Tappan 1851

OCLC

827002702

Author

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Title

Copy of a letter in the hand of his wife, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne : [Lenox, Mass.], to [Caroline] Tappan, [1851] Sept. 5.

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Provenance

Purchased at Bloomsbury Auctions, December 8, 2010.

Publications

A few lines from the letter appear in James R. Mellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980), p. 380; see also p. 639.

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Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Lenox.

Added Author

Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871. Transcriber

Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll m.b. Hawthorne, N. A.l.s. to Tappan 1851