[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalog--LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS & LETTERS, PART 3--which can 
be found on our website.

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Liverpool, 11 May 
1854. A 1-1/4-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Nath. Hawthorne" to 
George N. Sanders. In full: "I send you a bank bill for twenty pounds. I 
will put off my London excursion till next month. Indeed, I should not 
come then, only I am ashamed to tell people that I have not been. My 
visit will be only for a few days; and as I shall not bring Mrs. 
Hawthorne, it follows of course that I must go to a hotel. I have not 
forgotten Mrs. Sanders' instruction on that point. We mean to pay a long 
visit to London, after we have done with the consulate-- of which 
(except as respects the emoluments), I am heartily tired. I will not try 
to express to you my regret and mortification of the Senate on your 
case. With my wife's and my own best regards to Mrs. Sanders, believe 
me, Your friend, Nath. Hawthorne." The mention of the Senate is in 
reference to the U. S. Senate's refusal in February of 1854 to confirm 
Sanders's appointment to consul in London because of his indiscreet 
activities on behalf of European revolutionaries exiled there and his 
criticisms of some of the senators who voted. Sanders was a leader of 
Young America, the progressive faction of the Democratic party, and also 
editor of the DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. He later became a Confederate agent in 
the Civil War and likely encouraged John Wilkes Booth who assassinated 
Lincoln. Hawthorne was appointed by President Franklin Pierce to the 
United States consul in Liverpool in 1853, a reward for Hawthorne 
writing a not completely truthful campaign biography of Pierce. This 
letter is listed as #725, a "Fragment," in Volume XVII of the Centenary 
Edition of Hawthorne's THE LETTERS, 1853-1856, published in 1987. As 
published, it lacks the sentence: "Indeed, I should not come then, only 
I am ashamed to tell people that I have not been." Near Fine. (#020621) 
     $5,000

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