[Collection of journals, offprints, and printed ephemera on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, and their families and descendants]

"Collection includes the following: Maria S. Porter, "Elizabeth Palmer Peabody," The Bostonian, vol. 3, no. 4 (Jan. 1896), p. 341-350; Manning Hawthorne, "Nathaniel Hawthorne at Bowdoin College," reprinted from The New England Quarterly, vol. XIII, no. 2 (June 1940), p. 246-279, inscribed by Manning Hawthorne on front wrapper; Manning Hawthorne, "Nathaniel & Elizabeth Hawthorne, Editors," The Colophon, Sept. 1939, [12] p., inscribed by Manning Hawthorne on first page; Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, Sursum Corda, 1896-1946 (title page: The Servants of Relief for Incurable Cancer), [Amityville, N.Y.]: Sisters of St. Dominic, 1946; Nathaniel Hawthorne commemorative stamp sheets, of 50 and of 10 stamps, issued July 8, 1983, with first day issue envelope and newspaper clipping; American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., A Hawthorne Collection, Important Letters and Manuscripts, Including a Four-Page Letter from Herman Melville to Mrs. Nathaniel Hawthorne Concerning "Moby Dick" [...] the Property of a Descendant of Hawthorne [...] Samuel L. Clemens [...] Whitman-Burroughs Correspondence of an Intimate Character [...] Unrestricted Public Sale, April 29 at 8:15, New York: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., 1931, with winning bids in pencil in margin for the Hawthorne lots."

"[Collection of journals, offprints, and printed ephemera on Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, and their families and descendants]"