Hawthorne Family Papers, Ca

http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf487003nz No online items Guide to the Hawthorne Family Papers, ca. 1800-1926 Processed by Kate Mustain; machine-readable finding aid created by Steven Mandeville-Gamble Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc © 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Guide to the Hawthorne Family Special Collections M0981 1 Papers, ca. 1800-1926 Guide to the Hawthorne Family Papers, ca. 1800-1926 Collection number: M0981 Department of Special Collections and University Archives Stanford University Libraries Stanford, California Contact Information Department of Special Collections Green Library Stanford University Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 Phone: (650) 725-1022 Email: [email protected] URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc Processed by: Kate Mustain Date Completed: 1999 Encoded by: Steven Mandeville-Gamble © 1999 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved. Descriptive Summary Title: Hawthorne Family Papers, Date (inclusive): ca. 1800-1926 Collection number: Special Collections M0981 Creator: Extent: 2 linear ft. Repository: Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives. Language: English. Access Restrictions None. Publication Rights Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections. Provenance Purchased, 1998. Preferred Citation: [Identification of item] Hawthorne Family Papers, M0981, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Sophia A. Hawthorne [1809 - 1871]: Sophia Amelia Peabody was born in Salem, Massachusetts, on September 21, 1809 to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Nathaniel Peabody. She attended a school run by her mother and sister in Salem, Massachusetts and taught there for a short time. In December of 1833, Sophia and her sister Mary traveled to Cuba where, it was hoped, the climate would improve Sophia's delicate health. Her letters home were collected and circulated among friends by her mother as Sophia's "Cuba Journal." After returning to Salem in 1835, Sophia, though still infirm, achieved a reputation as a copyist of artworks. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), a neighbor of the Peabodys in Salem, met Sophia late in 1838; it was, Sophia would later say, love at first sight. A long engagement followed, kept secret for some time in the hope that the families would believe Guide to the Hawthorne Family Special Collections M0981 2 Papers, ca. 1800-1926 Sophia strong enough to marry, and while Nathaniel sought to establish himself as a writer. It had been expected that Sophia would never marry, but her days as an invalid ended on July 9, 1842, their wedding day. As long as Nathaniel was alive, Sophia was strong and vigorous; only after his death did her health begin gradually to fail. The Hawthornes began their married life in the Old Manse, in Concord. Three children came of the profoundly happy marriage: Una in 1844, Julian in 1846, and Rose in 1851. In 1852, Hawthorne was appointed U.S. Consul to England and the family moved to Liverpool. After the completion of his term of office, they traveled about Europe, returning to Concord in 1860, where they remained until Hawthorne's death in 1864. In the seven years after Hawthorne's death, Sophia edited his journals and published them as Passages from the American Notebooks (1868), Passages from the English Notebooks (1870), and Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks (1871). Her own travel writings appeared in 1870, as Notes in England and Italy . Sophia lived her last two years in London, where she died in 1871. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop [1851 - 1926]: Born in Lenox, Massachusetts, on May 20, 1851, Rose Hawthorne spent much of her childhood with her family in England and Europe. In 1871, she married George Parsons Lathrop, an aspiring author and editor. A hasty, youthful marriage, it was never a happy one. The Lathrop's one child, Francis, died young, and the couple separated in 1895. Lathrop died in 1898. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's first published work was a book of poems, Along the Shore (1888); in 1897 her Memories of Hawthorne appeared, following its serial publication in The Atlantic Monthly. Having converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop founded the Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer after her marriage dissolved. Known as Sister Alphonsa, she and her small religious community nursed the poorest terminally ill cancer patients in New York City. In 1899, the Servants of Relief became a Dominican Congregation and were able to open Rosary Hill Home in 1901. Rose Hawthorne, now Mother Alphonsa, lived and worked there until her death on July 9,1926, her parents' wedding anniversary. Rosary Hill Home continues today as it did almost a century ago: only those patients who are terminally ill and destitute are admitted for care by the Sisters. Julian Hawthorne [1846-1934]: Nathaniel's and Sophia's second child and only son, Julian was educated at home and then piecemeal in Concord and Europe. He attended Harvard for three years, finishing training as an engineer in Europe after his father died. He went on to become a prolific and popular writer of short stories, novels, essays, and memoirs. Although he felt encumbered always by his father's accomplishments and reputation, he, like his sisters, was determined to keep his parents' memories alive. In 1884, he published Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife and, in 1903, Hawthorne and His Circle. With a certain feckless naïveté, he involved himself in a get-rich-quick scheme that resulted in a conviction for mail fraud and a year's incarceration. Freed in 1913, Julian continued his writing career almost until his death in California in 1936. Anna Cora (Ogden) Mowatt [1819-1870]: Author of verse and romantic novels, playwright, and actress, Mowatt had a colorful and successful acting career in New York, retiring to England after the publication of her Autobiography of an Actress in 1854. Scope and Content The Hawthorne Family papers at Stanford consist of letters, manuscripts, journals, sketch books, and memorabilia of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and of two of their children, son Julian [1846-1934] and younger daughter, Rose [1851-1926], both writers themselves. The large majority of the papers are from the 1830s to the 1860s; from the last years of the 19th century; and from 1913 through the 1920s. The mid-nineteenth-century papers are for the most part those of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, her family and circle of friends. Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's holograph manuscripts were written before 1900, and from early in the twentieth century are letters and writings of Julian Hawthorne and letters from Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, who was by then known as Mother Alphonsa. Also included are ca. 54 leaves of holograph notes and verse, and some print material, of Anna Cora Mowatt, undated but probably from the 1850s. Access Terms Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888 Allston, Washington, 1779-1843 Bartlett, Josiah Blodget, Mrs. Bridge, Horatio, 1806-1893 Bright, Henry Arthur 1830-1884 Burchmore, H.L. Burney, Susan Channing, Ellen Fuller Guide to the Hawthorne Family Special Collections M0981 3 Papers, ca. 1800-1926 Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 Channing, William Ellery, 1818-1901 Chorley, Henry Fothergill, 1808-1872 Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888 Clarke, Sarah Emerson, Charles, d. 1836 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881 Foote, Mary Fuller, Sarah Margaret, 1810-1850 Hall, Anna Maria Fielding, 1800-1881 Hall, Samuel Carter, 1800-1889 Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Maria Louisa, 1807-1852 Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877 Hedge, Frederic Henry, 1805-1890 Hillard, George Stillman, 1808-1879 Hillard, Susan Tracy Howe Hitchcock, Ethan Allen, 1798-1870 Hoar, Elizabeth Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 1816-1895 Hooper, Ellen Sturgis Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 Kemble, Frances Anne (Fanny), 1809-1893 Lathrop, George Parsons, 1851-1898 Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891 Lowell, Maria White, d. 1853 Mann, Horace, 1796-1859 Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887 Martineau, Basil Martineau, Edith Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Palmer, George Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1778-1853 Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894 Peabody, George Francis, 1813-1839 Peabody, Nathaniel, 1774-1853 Peabody, Nathaniel Cranch, 1811- Peabody, Wellington, 1815-1837 Pike, William B. Putnam, Frederic Ward, 1839-1915 Rodman, Benjamin Shaw, Anna Shaw, Sarah B. Smyth, Hildegard Sturgis, Mary L. Tappan, Caroline Sturgis Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Guide to the Hawthorne Family Special Collections M0981 4 Papers, ca. 1800-1926 Ticknor, William Davis, 1810-1864 Very, Jones, 1813-1880 Weld, Theodore D., 1803-1895 Weston, Emma Yates, the Misses Series 1 : Correspondence relating to Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne [1809-1871] Box 1, Folder 1 To Elizabeth Palmer Peabody [1778-1853], ca.1843-1852 Item 1. AL fragment, [ca. 1843]. Physical Description: 1 leaf. Item 2. AL, initials, 1844 March 16. Physical Description: 1 folded leaf. Item 3. ALS, 1844 Nov. 19. Physical Description: 1 folded leaf. Item 4. AL fragment, 1845 Dec. 7. Physical Description: 1 folded leaf. Item 5. AL fragment, 1846 [Feb. 22]. Physical Description: 1 folded leaf. Item 6. AL, initial, fragment, [1849 February]. Physical Description: 1 leaf. Item 7. AL fragment, [1852?, Summer]. Physical Description: 1 folded leaf. Item 8. ALS, 1852 July 4. Physical Description: 2 folded leaves. Item 9. ALS, 1852 Aug. 13. Physical Description: 3 folded leaves. Item 10. AL, 1852 Sept. 19. Physical Description: 2 folded leaves + 1 leaf. Item 11. ALS fragment, [ca. 1852 Oct.]. Physical Description: 1 leaf. Item 12. ALS, 1851 [i.e., 1852] Oct. 24. Physical Description: 2 folded leaves. Box 1, Folder 2 To Elizabeth Palmer Peabody [1804-1894], early 1830s-1839 Item 1.

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