Sophia Hawthorne autograph letter to [Annie Adams Fields, Concord], approximately May 1862

Writes of [Henry David] Thoreau. Objects to her speaking of pain as "eternal."  May refer to the poem beginning, "Afar, afar, the rosy sails are far" printed in The Singing Shepherd and Other Poems, p. 79. Fragment, incomplete.

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