(SCIENTISTS) MITCHELL MARIA Two Autograph Letters Signed

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"FIRST FEMALE ASTRONOMER" IN AMERICA (SCIENTISTS.) MITCHELL, MARIA. Two Autograph Letters Signed. The first, to Nathaniel I. Bowditch, thanking for sending his book Suffolk Surnames and remarking that the similarity of names on Nantucket requires the use of middle names and numbers to distinguish one from the next. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; upper left corner torn away (not affecting text), ink identification in unknown hand below signature, folds. The second, to Una [Hawthorne, Nathaniel's daughter], welcoming her back from a trip to England and inviting her to visit. 4 pages, 12mo, written on a folded sheet; ink identification in unknown hand at upper right of terminal page. Nantucket, 25 December 1858; 17 July [1860]

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July 17: ". . . Many of us have feared that you might all become European, and the country can no more afford to lose your papa than I could afford to lose you or Julian. . . .
"I am very glad too that you find your native country pleasant. . . . I had been away only a year, when I returned, I was continually annoyed by the bad manner of my country men and women. . . . But . . . good hearts are worth more than good manners.
"Just as soon as you can in the Autumn I want you to visit me. . . . I cannot hope that your Father and Mother will be so far erratic in their orbits, as to come to such an outcast place as Nantucket, but I suppose you will find some sober escort . . . ."