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Title
Tappan, [Caroline], letter to. Sep. 5, [1851]. Copy in the hand of SAPH.
Names
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 (Author)
Tappan, Caroline Sturgis, 1819-1888 (Recipient)
Collection

Nathaniel Hawthorne collection of papers, 1694-1931 bulk (1817-1864)

Correspondence

Outgoing Correspondence

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1851-09-05
Place: [Lenox, MA]
Library locations
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Hawthorne, N.
Shelf locator: m.b. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. ALS
Genres
Correspondence
Notes
Funding: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.
Citation/reference: Centenary Edition, XVI, The Letters 1843-1853, p.481, #508. The CE text is taken from version printed in magazine The Century XLVII (November, 1894), 93-94, and editors state that the source for this was "probably a transcript of [N.H.'s] draft by SH included in a letter to Elizabeth P. Peabody, now unknown". This is appears to be the conjectured transcript. Another version of the letter was published in Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's Memories of Hawthorne (1897), 163-67. The CE rejects most variant readings from Memories, but all of these reflect the letter as copied in this transcript.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 double leaf & 1 leaf
[6 written pages] with envelope (George Parsons Lathrop) inscribed "Copy of Amusing letter from N. H. To Mrs Tappan, in Lenox, 1851 (Sept 5th)." Typed note, 1 slip.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15823745
MSS Unit ID: 19124
Accession number: 008555
Barcode: 33433070533066
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e37a9420-5440-0130-44e3-58d385a7b928
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1804: Creator Born
  • 1851: Created
  • 1864: Creator Died
  • 2013: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Tappan, [Caroline], letter to. Sep. 5, [1851]. Copy in the hand of SAPH." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1851. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6adaf960-cb95-0130-6bef-58d385a7bbd0

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "Tappan, [Caroline], letter to. Sep. 5, [1851]. Copy in the hand of SAPH." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 26, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6adaf960-cb95-0130-6bef-58d385a7bbd0

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Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. (1851). Tappan, [Caroline], letter to. Sep. 5, [1851]. Copy in the hand of SAPH. Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/6adaf960-cb95-0130-6bef-58d385a7bbd0

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Tappan, [Caroline], letter to. Sep. 5, [1851]. Copy in the hand of SAPH.