Guide to the Nathanial Hawthorne Research Files, 2000
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Research files for "Hawthorne: A Life," George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine
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Brenda Wineapple is the author of Hawthorne: A Life (2003), as well as numerous other literary biographies. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in many publications, among them The American scholar, The New York times Book Review, Parnassus, and The Nation. She lives in New York City.
Research files, chiefly copies of publications and primary sources, with occasional annotations, compiled by Brenda Wineapple in preparation for writing "Hawthorne: A Life" (Knopf, 2003). Wineapple's file order is retained.
Early Hawthornes
Rose
Hawthorne's Reading
Elizabeth Peabody, general
EPP [Elizabeth Palmer Peabody], correspondence
Mother and father
NHS [Nathaniel Hawthorne Society], relatives
Family, general
Rose, correspondence
Una, general
Una, Rose, Rosary Hill
Family letters
Boyhood
Silhouette
Ebe
1813 - ch.2
Julian, correspondence
Julian
Julian, Rose, trial
EPP, Concord
Bancroft, Rose, Stanford
Una, correspondence
Sophia, includes death
Hawthorne's first diary
Bowdoin
Journal, 1832
Personality
Hawthorne - slavery, Larry Reynolds
Hawthorne, politics
Social history 1804 and forward (random)
1800-1821 (college not included)
Use for early SAP
1837-1838
1839
1838-39-40-41
Marriage
1842
1843
1844-45-46
1847
1848
1849
1850
Custom House, National Archives
1851
SH [Sophie Hawthorne's] American Notebooks
1852
Sophia journal, 1853
1854
1855
1857
1859
1860
1861 - Berkley, Bancroft library
1861
Sophia diary, 1862
1863
Sophia journal, 1858, Bancroft
1864
Hawthorne's death
Hawthorne's death - obits
Contemporary bios by contemporaries
Transcendentalists (conference papers-some)
1867 SH [Sophia Hawthorne] to JTF [James T. Fields]
Post-death
Neoclassicism
Politics
Rome
Slavery
The "Dial," New England transcendentalists
Hawthorne, Carroll Wilson
Salem-old
Sophia, correspondence
Mrs. P., mother of SAH
Miscellaneous, correspondence
Miscellaneous people
Allston
"Atlantic" (1862 prospectus)
Bacon, Delia
Bennoch correspondence, Henry Arthur Bright
Bridge
Brook Farm - suit
Brook Farm
Browning
Cilley - Hawthorne's duel papers
Conolly
Clarke, Sarah
Dall
"Democratic Review"
Duyckinck
Emerson
Fessenden
Fields
Fuller
Goodrich, Samuel
Hoar, Elizabeth
Homeopathy: Holmes and Wesselhoeft
Hosmer, Harriet
Lathrop
Lathrop, correspondence
Lathrop: Biographical sketch
Lazarus, Emma
Mann, Mary - correspondence
Mann, Mary and Horace
Melville
Melville
Mitchell, Maria
Mitford, Mary R.
Newcomb, Charles - Journals
Pike - contemporary memoirs
Powers, Hiram
Rantoul, Robert
Sparks
Stebbins, Emma
Tappan, Caroline Sturgis - correspondence
Upham