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Key to Arrangement

 

Papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Volume 4

Pocket diary, 1858

Scope and Content Note

Covering departure for Italy at the conclusion of his consular tour of duty in England and residence in Italy. One page of accounts at the end. Entries for August 5 and 9 and part of entry for December 31 cut out. The cut out portion of the last entry was copied on the page of accounts by G[eorge?] P[arsons?] L[athrop?], March 22, [18]74. Photocopy in Box 1 or Microfilm (BANC FILM 72/236 z, reel 1) to be used in place of the original which has been withdrawn from use because of its fragility.
Box 1

[Studies for The Dollivar Romance.]

Additional Note

A handwritten copy. [Transcribed by a member of the family?]
 

Dr. Grimshaw's Secret:

Additional Note

Photocopies of p. 1 of the second draft and of p. 68 of the first draft, both in Hawthorne's hand; photocopy of p. 1 of Sophia Hawthorne's transcript of the first draft.
 

Letters written by Hawthorne: to General James Miller, n.d.

Additional Note

As one of several signers recommending Stephen Hoyt for appointment to the Salem Custom House; to [George S.] Hillard, June 8, 1849 (photocopy); to William B. Pike, July 24, 1851 (holograph).
 

Letters to Hawthorne from the following:

 

Bright, Henry A.

 

Letter, n. d. [ca. 1860] re The Marble Faun

 

Emery, Samuel H.

 

Letter, Nov. 12, 1863

 

Roberts, David

 

2 letters, 1856-57, containing genealogical information on the Hawthorne family

 

Tuckerman, Henry T.

 

Letter, Sept. 20, 1863

 

Miscellaneous papers

 

Document, July 31, 1854, signed by Hawthorne as U.S. consul

 

Three checks on a Concord bank, 1861, signed by Hawthorne

 

Reproductions of Hawthorne MSS used as illustrations in books

 

Poem by H[enry] A. B[right]: "Song of the Consul Hawthorne"

 

Facsimile of a letter of introduction for Hawthorne written by B[ryan] W. Procter to Leigh Hunt, Oct. 2, 1855

 

Poem by B[erkeley?] Aikin: To Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Four envelopes addressed to Hawthorne with notations by Sophia Hawthorne

 

Clippings of articles about Hawthorne

 

Pamphlet, Dedication of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Memorial 1804-1864 at Salem, Massachusetts

 

Calling cards and other miscellaneous items

 

Papers of Sophia Amelia (Peabody.) Hawthorne [Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne]

Box 2

Letters written by her, 1838-1868, before and after her marriage.

Additional Note

Originals, photocopies and transcripts, arranged chronologically. Included: a copy of a letter in journal form written to her sister, Elizabeth, ca. April-May 1838 (also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 2613)); photocopy of a letter written to her children, Una and Julian, July 9, 1864; and photocopy of a letter to Anne O'Gara, Sept. 4, 1864, re Nathaniel Hawthorne's death.
 

Letters written to her, arranged alphabetically, including:

 

Cleveland, R[ichard] J[effry], 1773-1860

 

Letter, Feb. 17, 1834, to the "Misses M. & S. Peabody"

 

Hawthorne, E[lizabeth] M[anning] [Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister]

 

Letter, May 23, 1842, written on hearing of Nathaniel's engagement

 

Sedgwick, C[atharine] M[aria], 1789-1867

 

Letter, [ca. 1852?], inviting Una and Julian Hawthorne to a children's party

 

Two pages [from a journal?] written on board the steamer "Niagara", July 8, 1853, on the way to England

 

Pocket diary, 1861, with a few pages of accounts following the diary entries

Additional Note

At the end of the volume are a few diary entries for 1863. (Also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 72/236 z reel 2))
 

[Impressions of an abbey garden. 1857?]

Additional Note

Two pages, numbered 21 and 22
 

Sketchbook, ca. 1858-1860, containing drawings by both Mrs. Hawthorne and her son, Julian

 

Sketches of European scenes,

Physical Description: done on slips of paper; 12 items
 

Sketchbook with outline drawings

 

Seaweed specimens collected and mounted at the town of Redcar, England, 1859

 

Miscellaneous items

Scope and Content Note

Including a document in Hebrew, with translation and syntax notes in her hand; and a copy of a sermon in her hand
 

Papers of Una Hawthorne

Box 3

Letters written to her arranged alphabetically, including:

 

Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning

 

Letter, Feb. 10, [1865?]

Additional Note

[For copies of additional letters from Miss Hawthorne to her niece, see Julian Hawthorne's notebook, Folder 14, Carton 2.]
 

Hawthorne, Julian

 

5 letters, 1857 & n.d.

 

Hawthorne, Minne (Amelung) [Mrs. Julian Hawthorne]

 

Letter, Oct. 11, 1874, with postscript from Julian

 

[Lathrop], Frank

 

Letter, Nov. 25, 1870, commenting, in part, on Julian's wedding

 

Partial typed transcript of a letter from Una to her sister-in-law, .Minne, Dec. 27, n.y.

 

Pocket diary, 1875

Additional Note

Also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 72/236 reel 3)
 

Typed transcript of a poem, "Dead Sunshine"

 

Autograph, June 22, 1874

 

Miscellaneous Hawthorne family papers

Box 4

Genealogical information on the family

 

Miscellaneous photographs

Additional Note

Most of the portraits have been removed to the Portrait Collection. Retained here are postcards with views of the Hawthorne home, Nathaniel Hawthorne's grave, and unidentified photographs. See also scrapbook, volume 3 in Julian Hawthorne's papers.
 

Material about Rose (Hawthorne) Lathrop, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Additional Note

Including clippings relating to her, as Mother M. Alphonsa, and her work in establishing a hospital for pauperized cancer victims
 

Papers of Julian Hawthorne

Box 4

Biographical information

 

Letters written by Hawthorne, 1861-1932 & n.d.

Additional Note

Originals, photocopies, carbon copies and transcripts. Arranged chronologically. (5 folders)
Boxes 4-6

Letters written to Hawthorne

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically by name of person or organization. A list of the more important correspondents follows the Key to Arrangement. Unlisted letters are arranged alphabetically in a "Miscellany" in Box 6; unidentified letters also in Box 6.
Box 5

Rose (Hawthorne) Lathrop, letters, 1911-1925, undated

Additional Note

Also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 2421)
Box 6

Letters and telegrams re Hawthorne's 85th birthday celebration, 1931

 

Papers relating to Hawthorne's term in Atlanta federal prison, 1912-1913

Scope and Content Note

Including clippings, letters from family and sympathizers, etc. (also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 2421))
 

Sketches

Additional Note

[See also Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's sketch book in Box 2, and scrapbook, volume 3]
 

Clippings of stories and articles by Hawthorne

Additional Note

[See also Scrapbooks, volumes 1-3]
 

Clippings re Hawthorne, including obituaries

 

Papers of Minne (Amelung) Hawthorne [the first Mrs. Hawthorne]

Scope and Content Note

Including two letters addressed to her; notes on sayings of the children; clippings of two articles written by her
 

Miscellaneous material re Edith (Garrigues) Hawthorne [the second Mrs. Hawthorne], including clippings

 

Miscellaneous material re Hildegarde Hawthorne, his daughter

 

Miscellany

 

MSS of his writings

Ctn. 1

Prose

Scope and Content Note

(holograph and typescript copies), arranged alphabetically by title, as follows:
 

After Eighty Years

 

Against Himself (notes)

 

Alcott [Bronson]

 

Alcott in Concord

 

An Alleged Murder Prophecy

 

Animals

 

Archibald Malmaison [synopsis for opera]

 

Are Marriages Made in Heaven?

 

Are We As Good As We Were?

 

Armageddon

 

Benjamin Disraeli

 

Bethuel's Daughter (Isaac and Rebekah)

 

Black Doll [synopsis] from Archibald Malmaison

 

Books of Memory

 

Bret Harte [article]

 

California's Benicia Boy

 

Call of the Planet

 

City of Destruction

 

Concord of Emerson

 

Cosmic Courtship [synopsis]

 

Countess Almara's Murder

 

Dark Tower, A Fairy Story [synopsis]

 

Dark Woman

 

Dickens in Boston

 

Does Lilith Still Live? A Story

 

Dust; A Novel (p.1-19, unfinished) See also Perdita [synopsis]

 

Eclipse in the Tropics

 

Edwin Booth

 

Egg [story]

 

Electron

 

Elizabeth Stoddard

 

Emerson in Concord

 

Ethics As a Factor in Human Flight

 

First American Submarine

 

Fortune; A Story

 

Fortune's Fool [novel] (pp.357-360)

 

Fortune's Fool [synopsis]

 

Ghosts

 

Good Angel, A Story

 

Good Women

Additional Note

[biography. Also titled: Such Is Paradise; The Story of Sophia and Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Sophie Hawthorne, The Wife Who Made the Scarlet Letter Possible
 

Grand Marana [synopsis]

 

Grimshawe notes

 

Harvard of 1860

 

Harvard of Our Forefathers

 

Hawthorne in Concord

 

Hawthorne Reading

 

Hawthorne's Blithedale

 

Hawthorne's Letters To a Friend

 

Henry James (begins "Albany, N.Y....")

 

Henry James (begins "In 1863...")

 

Hoch der Kaiser

 

Huxley

 

Idiot [story]

 

India, notes on

 

Islander, A Romance

 

Jamaica

 

Jew For England

 

Joaquin Miller (begins "It sounds sentimental...")

 

Joaquin Miller (begins "Joaquin had unlimited gall...")

 

Joiner-work, A Story

 

Life At Three-Score and Ten

 

Life By Faith [interview with Mariana Becket]

 

London in the Seventies

 

Longfellow

 

Lotus-Girl [story]

 

Louisa Alcott

 

Louisa Alcott "Little Women"

 

Louisa Alcott's Little Women

 

Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women")

 

Love - Or A Name [notes]

 

Lure of Youth [adapted from The Scarlet Letter]

 

Man and the Machine

 

Man's Life, By the Man Himself [novel] (3 p. fragment)

 

Men in the Milky Way

 

Modern Sphinx [article]

 

Murder and Suicide of Mr. John Smith

 

Music and Seashells

 

My Aunt Elizabeth Hawthorne - "A Character Study From the Memoirs of Julian Hawthorne" (also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 72/236, reel 4)

 

My Old Friend, Louisa [Alcott]

 

My Personal Archeology. With letter to Lorimer of S.F. Post dated, Dec. 10, 1932

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Library

 

New Champion

 

Notes on California

 

Notes on Old Boston

 

Obsession [story]

 

Old Adam

 

Options [synopsis]

 

Our Modern Sphinx. See also Modern Sphinx

 

Passage in the Life of Edward Burdan, ed. with notes by JH

 

Passion and the Man [synopsis]

 

People in the Streets

 

Perdita [synopsis] based on the novel Dust

 

Pierced Lantern

 

Problems of The Scarlet Letter

 

Professor's Sister [novel]

see The Spectre of the Camera

 

Psychetrope [notes]

 

Queer People

 

Ram's Horn Ridge

 

Reactions [article]

 

Roman Holiday. Broadcast Americans Abroad 1858, note "not given"

 

The Rotunda

 

Routine of a Tropic Day

 

Rumpty Dudget's Tower. See the Dark Tower

 

The Salvini-Booth Incident

 

Sara Bernhardt

 

Saul [synopsis]

 

Scarlet Letter [synopsis]

 

Scarlet Letter [notes]

 

Scarlet Letter [photoplay]

 

Sea-Secret [story]

 

Sebastian Strome [synopsis]

 

Siva's Eye [story]

 

Six-Eight Two-Three-Four-Nine[novel/summary]

 

Sophie Hawthorne. see Good Women

 

Soul of America [plot]

 

Space and Time; An Ode

 

Spectre of the Camera [synopsis]

 

Such Is Paradise. See Good Women

 

Tale From Catland

 

Theodore Roosevelt

 

Thoreau

 

To Edgar Allan Poe

 

Tower of Babel

 

War [prose poem]

 

Woman Educator [Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]

 

Woman of 1992

 

Yellow Cap, A Fairy Story

 

Poetry

Additional Note

(holograph and type script copies), arranged alphabetically by title
 

Journals

Ctn. 2, folder 1

1872-1876.

Additional Note

Portions of 1856 journal copied on pp. 67-74. Includes copies of some of Julian's letters to his parents, 1850's, and notes on automatic writing and table-tipping, 1885
folder 2

1877.

Additional Note

Some accounts at the end
folder 3

1883-1890.

Additional Note

With copies of selected journal entries from 1875, 1879-1880, and 1878. Also copied: a few letters written to Hawthorne; draft of a poem "The DKE Poem," a list of his writings, dated May 21, 1885; drafts of agreements, etc.
folder 4

1879.

Additional Note

With accounts at the end. Extra page inserted: "How to Write Novels".
folder 5

1880-1882. Journal and notebook.

Additional Note

Scattered entries with notes on various subjects interspersed; a few accounts
folder 6

1894.

Additional Note

Very few entries
folder 7

1899.

Additional Note

With accounts at the end
 

Notebooks

folder 8

1858.

Additional Note

Notes on chronology
folder 9

1875.

Additional Note

A few journal entries, but primarily notes for and drafts and plots of stories
folder 10

1875.

Additional Note

A catalogue of books in his library and clippings of his novel, Garth, pasted in
folder 11

1876-1878.

Additional Note

Outline of a play; notes for a novel; two pages of journal entries, Oct. 1882; accounts, etc.
folder 12

[1890's?]

Additional Note

Includes "About Novels," dialogue on existence of God, poems, etc.
folder 13

1894-1895.

Additional Note

Record of dreams and astrological notes
folder 14

1861-1925

Additional Note

Copies of letters to Una Hawthorne from her aunt, Elizabeth M. Hawthorne, Dec. 9, 1861-Jan. 2, 1870 (also available on microfilm (BANC FILM 72/236, reel 4)); index of plots; list of articles in Pasadena Star, 1923-1924; diary entries, Apr. 1924-Oct. 1925
folder 15

n.d.

Additional Note

Includes "Philosophy of Magic," notes for novels, etc.
Volume 1

Scrapbook 1

Scope and Content Note

Includes sketch of floor plan for Garth's home; clippings of reviews of Hawthorne's books; clippings re controversy with George P. Lathrop re his book on Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oversize volume 2

Scrapbook 2 ca. 1899-1901.

Scope and Content Note

Primarily clippings of articles by Hawthorne; some miscellaneous letters pasted in also
Oversize volume 3

Scrapbook 3

Scope and Content Note

Some pages of diary entries for January 1896 pasted in; sketches; programs for lectures; poems; photographs; book announcements; clippings of articles; bibliography, etc.
Oversize folder 1

Two certificates of membership in fraternal ordersfolder

BANC FILM 72/236, Reel 5

Positive microfilm copy of Julian Hawthorne material from the Pierpont Morgan Library

Scope and Content Note

Including a diary, May 1857-Oct. 1859, with sketches; a notebook containing "Nathaniel Hawthorne Described by His Son," extracts of letters and other material relating to the Peabody family, lists of letters, etc.; and a notebook containing notes for some of his novels, clippings, and other material relating to his own writings. (NO PHOTO DUPLICATION)

Partial List of Correspondents

 

Alden, Henry Mills, 1836-1919

See Harper & Brothers

 

Appleton (D.) & Company

 

3 letters, 1873-1919

 

Astor, William W.

 

Letter, May 28, 1888

 

Atlantic Monthly

 

3 letters, 1873-1932.

Additional Note

Include letter, June 20, 1873, from William D. Howells
 

Bandelier, Adolphe Francis Alphonse, 1840-1914

 

Letter, Aug. 1, 1908.

Additional Note

Signed for him by his wife, Fanny Ritter Bandelier
 

Bangs, John Kendrick

 

Letter, Oct. 18, 1902

 

Barr, A. E.

 

Letter, n.d.

 

Barry, John Daniel, 1866-1942

 

Letter, Dec. 16, 1930

 

Bates, Morgan

 

Letter, Mar. 26, 1901

 

Bennett, Raine

 

2 letters, 1932

 

Bennoch, Francis

 

9 letters, 1874-1875.

Additional Note

Friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also with these: a letter written by Mrs. Bennoch to Mrs. Julian Hawthorne
 

Blackmore, R. D.

 

Letter, March 19, 1878

 

Bobbs-Merrill Company

 

Letter, Aug. 5, 1925

 

Booth, Mary Louise, 1831-1889

See Harper & Brothers

 

Bright, Henry A.

box 1

Letter, Nov. 13[?], n.y.

Additional Note

Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, [ca. 1860] re The Marble Faun
 

Buel, Clarence Clough, 1850-

See Century Magazine

 

Burton, Frederick R.

 

Letter, Nov. 17, 1902

 

Canby, Henry Seidel, 1878-1961

 

Letter, Sept. 7, 1923

 

Carew, Harold D.

 

3 letters, 1925-1927, & n.d.

 

Carter, Robert

 

11 letters, 1871-1874.

Additional Note

Several written on behalf of Appleton's
 

Cavendish, Ada, d. 1895

 

Autograph, Apr. 29, 1878

 

Century Magazine

 

3 letters, 1902-1912.

Additional Note

Include letters from Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence C. Buel
 

Chamberlain, Samuel Selwyn, 1851-1916

 

8 letters & telegrams, 1907-1915 & n.d.

 

Clemens, Cyril, 1902-

 

3 letters, 1928

 

Cleveland, Richard Jeffry, 1773-1860

box 2

Letter, Feb. 17, 1834, to the "Misses M. & S[ophia] Peabody."

 

Cosmopolitan Magazine

 

2 letters, 1897-1902.

Additional Note

Include letter from John B. Walker.
 

Creel, George, 1876-1953

 

3 letters, 1930 & n.d.

 

Creelman, James

 

Letter, Oct. 14, 1901

 

Currie, Barton Wood, 1878-

See The Ladies' Home Journal

 

Curtis, Edward S.

 

5 letters, 1911-1934.

Additional Note

With these: a letter, Mar. 30, 1932, from his daughter, Beth
 

Davis, Robert Hobart, 1869-1942

 

2 letters, 1928-1929

 

Dearborn Publishing Co.

 

5 letters, 1927-1937

 

Dickson, Edward Augustus, 1879-1956

 

Letter, Aug. 19, 1925

 

Dixon, William Jerrold, d. 1879

 

28 letters, 1876-1879 & n.d. Personal friend

 

Dougherty, George C.

 

Letter, Feb. 19, 1923.

Additional Note

Re sale of picture rights to A Fool of Nature
 

Earle, Ferdinand

 

Letter, Aug. 14, 1912

 

Emery, Samuel H.

box 1

Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nov. 12, 1863

 

Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974

 

Letter, June 22, [1931]

 

Francillon, Robert Edward

 

Letter, Dec. 21, 1876

 

Funk & Wagnalls Company

 

Letter, Apr. 30, 1920

 

Garland, Hamlin, 1860-1940

 

11 letters, 1931-1934 & n.d.

Additional Note

One is a letter of condolence addressed to Mrs. Hawthorne
 

Gilder, Jeanette Leonard, 1849-1916

 

Letter, Oct. 9, 1900

 

Gilder, [Richard] Watson, 1844-1909

 

3 letters, 1871-1872

 

Gregory, Louise Fanshawe

 

Letter, Apr. 20, 1909

 

Gurney, Edmund

 

2 letters, 1880-1885

 

Harper & Brothers

 

19 letters, 1871-1918. From S. S. Conant, Henry M. Alden, and Mary L. Booth

 

Harper's Bazaar

 

Letter, Feb. 10, 1928

 

Harris, Kennett

 

11 letters, 1927 & n.d.

 

Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning [Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister]

box 2

Letter to Sophia Peabody [Hawthorne], May 23, 1842.

Additional Note

re her engagement to Nathaniel
box 3

Letter, Feb. 10, [1865], to her niece, Una.

Physical Description:

Additional Note

For additional letters from Miss Hawthorne to her niece, see Julian Hawthorne's notebook, Folder 14, Carton 2
 

Hawthorne, Julian

box 3

5 letters to Una Hawthorne, 1857 & n.d.

Additional Note

All other Julian Hawthorne letters are in Box 4, arranged chronologically
 

Hawthorne, Minne (Amelung) [Mrs. Julian Hawthorne]

box 3

Letter to Una Hawthorne, Oct. 11, 1874, with postscript from Julian

 

Hawthorne, Rose

See Lathrop, Rose (Hawthorne)

 

Heath (D.C.) & Company [publishers]

 

Letter, Dec. 13, 1924

 

Heinemann (William) Ltd.

 

Letter, Mar. 24, 1927

 

Honce, Charles

 

2 letters, 1929.

Additional Note

Re his Julian Hawthorne bibliography. With these: photocopies of two letters, from Hildegarde and Fred Hawthorne, 1939 & 1942, re Honce's book on his Hawthorne Collection
 

Houghton Mifflin Company

 

2 letters, 1924-1928

 

Howe, William T. H.

 

5 letters, 1930-1931.

Additional Note

Re his Nathaniel Hawthorne collection
 

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1919

See Atlantic Monthly

 

Hutton, Richard Holt, 1826-1897

 

Letter, July 9, 1873

 

James, H[enry], 1843-1916

 

Letter, Jan. 15, 1879.

Additional Note

Typed transcript
 

Johnson, Robert Underwood, 1853-1937

See Century Magazine

 

King (Henry S.) & Co. Publishers

 

11 letters, 1872-1874

 

The Ladies' Home Journal

 

Letter, July 5, 1922. From Barton W. Currie, editor

 

Lane, John

 

Letter, Oct. 26, 1918.

Additional Note

Re a miniature of Nathaniel Hawthorne
 

Lanier, Henry Wysham, 1873-

 

Letter, Feb. 14, 1928

 

Lathrop, Frank

box 3

Letter, Nov. 25, 1870 to Una Hawthorne, commenting, in part, on Julian's wedding

 

Lathrop, George Parsons

 

Telegram, Oct. 6, 1886

 

Lathrop, Rose (Hawthorne) [Julian Hawthorne's sister]

 

13 letters, 1911-1925 & n.d.

Additional Note

Mother Alphonsa in the religious life. With these: letters, 1926-1933, written by Mother M. Rose, Mother Alphonsa's successor in the religious community
 

Lemmon, Leonard

 

Letter, Oct. 20, 1896.

Additional Note

With this: drafts of his two letters to newspaper editors answering criticisms of the textbook, American Literature, which he and Hawthorne wrote; and articles of agreement re publication of the book
 

Lewis, Alfred Henry

 

Letter, n.d.

 

Lewis, William Eugene, d. 1924

 

2 letters, 1914-1915.

Additional Note

With these: letter written by his wife, n.d., after his death
 

Life

 

Letter, Feb. 21, 1908

 

Little, Brown & Co.

 

Letter, Jan. 21, 1907

 

Locker, Arthur

 

Letter, Jan. 12, 1877

 

McCall's Magazine

 

Letter, Oct. 10, 1925

 

Macmillan Company

 

Letter, May 18, 1932.

Additional Note

With this: letter, Nov. 2l, 1941, addressed to Mrs. Hawthorne re her memoirs of Julian Hawthorne
 

Macmillan, Frederich

 

3 letters, 1881-1931

 

Mapleson, Henry

 

Letter, Nov. 22, 1903. Addressed to MIle. Talma

 

Marks, Montague

 

Letter, Sept. 11, 1888

 

Mencken, Henry Louis, 1880-1956

 

2 letters, 1932 & n.d.

 

Mitchell, John Ames, 1845-1918

 

2 letters, 1913

 

Morton, William James

 

16 letters, 1899-1920 & n.d.

Additional Note

Personal friend. With these: letter written by his wife, Aug. 30, 1928
 

Mullgardt, Louis Christian, 1866-1942

 

Letter to Mrs. Hawthorne, Jan. 27, 1939

 

Munsey (Frank A.) Company

 

2 letters, 1926 & n.d.

 

Murray, Henry Alexander, 1893-

 

Letter, n.d.

Additional Note

Requesting information about Herman Melville
 

Murray, John, published, London

 

12 letters, 1927-1929.

Additional Note

Include letters from Sir John Murray and his son
 

Noble, William Clark, 1858-1938

 

Letter, June 9, 1916

 

O'Brien, Frederick, 1869-1932

 

12 letters, 1924-1930, & n.d.

 

Older, Fremont, 1856-1935

 

5 letters, 1924-1929.

Additional Note

One is addressed to Mrs. Hawthorne
 

Osgood (James R.) & Co.

 

4 letters, 1873-1874

 

Parker, Alton Brooks, 18 52-1926

 

Letter, Dec. 13, 1902

 

Pasadena Star News

 

5 letters, 1924-1928

 

Peckham, William G.

 

12 letters, 1872-1921 & n.d.

Additional Note

Personal friend. Also with these: letter from Mrs. Peckham informing Hawthorne of Peckham's death
 

Pingree, Hazen S., 1840-1901

 

Letter, Apr. 20, 1901

 

Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1920

 

Letter, Nov. 7, 1928

 

Reenan, William L.

 

6 letters, 1930-1931.

Additional Note

Primarily re his interest in Nathaniel Hawthorne and his collection of Hawthorniana
 

Rideing, William Henry, 1853-1919

 

Letter, Feb. 7, 1886

 

Roberts, David

box 1

2 letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1856-1857, containing genealogical information on the Hawthorne family.

 

Roe, Edward Payson

 

3 letters, 1886-1888

 

Roeder, Adolph

 

Letter, Feb. 24, 1920

 

Rusk, R. L.

 

Letter, Apr. 20, 1932

 

Saltus, Edgar, 1858-1921

 

Letter, n.d.

 

San Francisco Call

 

3 letters, 1924

 

Sanchez, Nellie (Van de Grift), 1856-1935

 

Letter, June 2, 1929

 

Scribners (Charles) Sons

 

Letter, Feb. 26, 1920

 

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867

box 2

Letter to Sophia Hawthorne, [ca. 1852?]

 

Sparling, H. Halliday, 1860-1924

 

6 letters, 1921-1924.

Additional Note

With these: 24 letters by Mrs. Sparling
 

Sperry Flour Co.

 

3 letters, 1930.

Additional Note

Two of them addressed to school principals, re Hawthorne's radio broadcast sponsored by the company; one addressed to Ina L. Cook re the broadcasts
 

The Sportsman

 

6 letters, 1927-1932

 

Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew (Barstow) [Mrs. Richard H. Stoddard]

 

14 letters, n.d.

 

Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903

 

4 letters, 1871-1886 & n.d.

Additional Note

One added to a letter written by his wife
 

Stokes (Frederick A.) Company

 

2 letters, 1924-1932

 

Tesla, Nikola

 

4 letters, 1901-1910

 

Tully, Eleanor (Gates), 1875-

 

Letter, Oct. 10, 1902

 

Universal Film Manufacturing Company

 

2 letters, 1916

 

Villiers, Frederic

 

Letter, June 20, 1893

 

Webber, Byron

 

Letter, Oct. 27, 1881.

Additional Note

Typed transcript, with note by Hawthorne on his character
 

Weir, Hugh C., 1884-1934

 

2 letters & 2 telegrams, 1922 & n.d.

Additional Note

Most of them refer to the possibility of Mary Garden doing a screen version of The Scarlet Letter
 

West, George P.

 

3 letters, 1927-1938

 

Weston, Edward Payson

 

Letter, May 20, 1907.

Additional Note

With this: a brochure describing his walking feats, containing a statement by Hawthorne
 

Wheeler Syndicate, Inc.

 

2 letters, 1913-1914

 

White, Richard Grant, 1821-1885

 

8 letters, 1876-1882

 

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1850-1919

 

Letter, n.d.

 

Wilshire, Gaylord

 

Letter, n.d.

 

Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944

 

Letter, June 22, 1931