The Nathaniel Hawthorne papers contain the letters and other personal and professional papers of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864), his father Nathaniel Hathorne (1775-1808), his mother Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hawthorne (1780-1845), and his wife Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (1809-1871). Also included are the papers of his children Una, Julian, and Rose, along with those of Rose’s husband, George Parsons Lathrop and Julian’s daughter, Hildegarde Hawthorne.