Hawthorne family collection, 1830-1921

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Summary

Creators:
Hawthorne family (1780-1934)
Abstract:
A collection of letters and manuscripts related to the family of Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist.
Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Hawthorne family collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, and one document related to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family. The document is a bill for iron work signed by Nathaniel Hawthrone; the manuscripts include two essays by Julian Hawthrone, "Millennial Reflections," and "Walking;" a novella "Millicent and Rosalind" and a short story "The Third of March." The correspondence includes letters to the Hawthorne sisters from Elizabeth Smiley Williams written from Havana, Cuba, in the 1830s, and letters from Julian Hawthorne to George Sidney Hellman. The family letters include those between Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne; the family letters also include Edith Garrigues Hawthorne who was the second wife of Julian Hawthorne. The family letters discuss events such as births, marriages, and deaths as well as the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Browning, Charles Dickens, George Parsons Lathrop, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.

Biographical / historical:

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne Senior, was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. The younger Hawthorne probably added the "w" to his name shortly after he graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. Hawthrone married Sophia Peabody in 1842, and they had three children, Una Hawthrone (1844-1877), Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), and Rose Hawthrone Lathrop (1851-1926).

Acquisition information:
Purchased from William K. Bixby Sale, 1918, mssHM 2852; removed from rare book 120122, 1939, mssHM 6901; purchased from American Art Association, Conant Sale, lot 25, November 1923, mssHM 13822; provenance unknown, in library, 1923, mssHM 7726-7729; acquired from Edith Garrigues Hawthorne, March 1936, mssHM 25370-25378, mssHM 42639-42681.
Processing information:

Processed by Huntington Library Staff from approximately 1920 to approimately 1940; in June 2025, Gayle M. Richardson created the finding aid. This collection includes multiple acquisitions acquired and assembled by Huntington staff over many years.

Arrangement:

Arranged chronologically.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Terms of access:

The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item]. Hawthorne family collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Location of this collection:
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108, US
Contact:
(626) 405-2191
reference@huntington.org
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