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Letter from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Horace Mann, 3 March 1838

Letter from Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Horace Mann, 3 March 1838

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    25.3 cm x 19.9 cm

    From the Horace Mann papers III


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    [ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

    In this letter to Horace Mann, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody described a young author of Salem, Mass. named Nathaniel Hawthorne. She praised Hawthorne's "first rate genius," but worried that "authorship does not seem to offer a means of living" for him. Mann and Hawthorne would later marry Peabody's sisters, Mary and Sophia.