Sophia Hawthorne autograph letter signed to James Thomas Fields, [Concord], 17 May 1866
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Sees no harm in using the names of [George] Ripley and [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. Is hopeless about financial perceptions; sent the tax-gatherer back to [George Stillman] Hillard. Refers to "Passages from Hawthorne's Note-Books, No. VII" (In the Atlantic Monthly, July 1866).