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Ann Arbor, MI 48106 SELECTED LITERARY LETTERS OF SOPHIA PEABODY HAWTHORNE 1842-1853 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of the Ohio State University By Nancy Luanne Jenkins Hurst, B.S., M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 1992 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Thomas Cooley John B. Gabel Adviser Daniel R. Barnes Department of English Copyright by Nancy Luanne Jenkins Hurst 1992 To Daniel Jay Hurst Colossians 3:23-24 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to Professor Thomas Cooley for suggesting this project, opening his files of Sophia Hawthorne transcriptioar d imparting to me his knowledge of the subject and the procedure^ to follow. I appreciate his gracious guidance, extensive help, and consistent encouragement during the research, editing, and writing of this paper. I thank Professor John B. Gabel for his expert direction in bibliography and textual studies, for his guidance toward greater precision of expression, and for helping me to see that it was possible to finish this project. I appreciate Professor Daniel R. Barnes' willingness to join my committee at the eleventh hour and am thankful for his kind encouragement and suggestions for improvement. I am grateful to the others who have shared their work on the Sophia Hawthorne letters: Mrs. Olcott Deming (who sent her own transcriptions of Sophia Hawthorne's letters to the Ohio State University many years ago), Barbara Cooley, Rebecca Cline, Paula Thompson, Jamie Kayes, and John Lauritsen. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Professor Thomas Woodson for his work on the Nathaniel Hawthorne letters and his willingness to answer questions and give advice. This dissertation would have been impossible without the cooperation of Dr. Lola L. Szladits, former curator of the Berg Collection, and her staff and that of the present curator, Mr. Francis Mattson, and his staff (Stephen iii Crook and Philip Milito). I thank the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, for permission to quote the letters that are the main text of this dissertation as well as permission to cite other letters and journals in the notes. I am also grateful to Mr. Herbert T. F. Cahoon, former curator of manuscripts at the Pierpont Morgan Library, and his staff for letting me read and take notes from manuscripts that they had not yet cataloged. I thank Bob Jones University and the Department of English of the Ohio State University for financial help. I am grateful to the following friends whose hospitality made much of my research possible: Jerry and Dawn Walker, Sharon and June Woodruff, Peter and Ellen Foxx, Ray Godwin and Laura Beauvais-Godwin. I especially appreciate the financial and moral support of Thomas and Marjorie Hurst, Robert and Nancy Jenkins, Blake and Marion Spence, Gene and Bonnie Merkle, Dan and Heidi Enck, Christine Resch, and Dawn Watkins. Most of all, I thank my husband, Daniel Jay Hurst, for sharing the hard work of manuscript research in New York, for suggesting improvements in my own writing, for supporting me financially and emotionally so that I could be free to do this work, and for being my best friend. VITA July 18, 1954 .......................... Born in Cartersvllle, Georgia 1976 .................................. B.S., Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina 1976-1983 .............................. English Instructor, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina 1983 .................................. M.A., English, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 1983-1987 .............................. Graduate Teaching Associate or Graduate Research Associate, Department of English, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 1987-Present .......................... English Instructor, Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina PUBLICATION Review of To Myself a Stranger: A Biography of Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. by Patricia Dunlavy Valenti. Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 18 (Spring 1992): 26. FIELDS OF STUDY Major Field: English Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Thomas Cooley Bibliography and Textual Studies John B. Gabel v tab le o f contents DEDICATION........................................................... ii ACKNOWLDGEMENTS.................................................... iii VITA ............................................................... v LIST OF SHORT TITL E S................................................. ix LIST OF SYMBOLS USED IN TEXTUAL N O T A T I O N S ........................ xi INTRODUCTION....................................................... 1 THE LETTERS: 1. AUGUST 22, 1842. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 28 2. OCTOBER 9, 1842. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 33 3. DECEMBER 29, 1842. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY............. 40 4. FEBRUARY 22, 1843. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY........ 44 5. FEBRUARY 28, 1843. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY........ 51 6. APRIL 13, 1843. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.......... 55 7. APRIL 20, 1843. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.......... 59 8. JUNE 2, 1843. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY................. 63 9. SEPTEMBER 3, 1843. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY............. 69 10. NOVEMBER 26, 1843. TO MARIA LOUISA HAWTHORNE................... 75 11. JANUARY 9, 1844. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 78 12. FEBRUARY 6, 1844. TO MRS. MARY PEABODY MANN..................... 83 13. MARCH 5, 1845. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY................. 89 14. APRIL 6, 1845. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY................. 96 vi 15. APRIL 6, 1845. TO HRS. MARY FFABODY M A N N ...................... 101 16. SEPTEMBER 7, 1845. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY......... .104 17. JULY [16?], 1847. TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE...................... 108 18. MARCH 8, 1849. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY................ Ill 19. JUNE 10, 1849. TO DR. NATHANIEL PEABODY........................ 115 20. SEPTEMBER 27, 1849. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.......... 118 21. NOVEMBER 4, 1849. TO MRS. MARY PEABODY MANN................... 120 22. JANUARY 16, 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY............ 123 23. FEBRUARY 3, 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY............ 127 24. FEBRUARY 12, 1850. TO MRS. MARY PEABODY M A N N .................. 130 25. APRIL 28, 1850. TO MARIA LOUISA HAWTHORNE...................... 133 26. JUNE 21, 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY................ 137 27. AUGUST 1, 1850. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 143 28. AUGUST 3, 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 151 29. AUGUST 8, 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 154 30. AUGUST 22, 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 159 31. SEPTEMBER 3, 1850. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY........... 170 32. SEPTEMBER 4, 1850. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY........... 173 33. SEPTEMBER 9, 1850. TO MRS. MARY PEABODY M A N N .................. 177 34. SEPTEMBER 12, 1850. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.......... 181 35. SEPTEMBER 29, 1850. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.......... 182 36. SEPTEMBER 1850. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY.............. 198 37. JANUARY 8, 1851. TO L. W. MANSFIELD............................ 203 38. JANUARY 27, 1851. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY............ 205 39. FEBRUARY 12, 1851. TO MRS. ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY........... 210 40. FEBRUARY 16, 1851. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY........... 220 vii 41. MARCH 6, 1851. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY................234 42. MARCH 15, 1851. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY..............237 43. APRIL 17, 1851. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEABODY..............242 44. APRIL 27, 1851. TO MISS ELIZABETH PALMER PEAB O D Y..............245