I myself am Spring with all its birds, its rivers, its buds, singing, rushing, blooming in his arms. "Oh lovely God!" she wrote, "I thank thee that I can rush into my sweet husband with all my many waters, & sing & thunder with all my waves in the vast expanse of his comprehensive bosom-How I exult there-how I foam & sparkle in the sun of his love. When spring came, she compared nature's rebirth to her own awakening. "It is usually supposed that the cares of life come with matrimony " he wrote, "but I seem to have cast off all care, and live on with as much easy trust in Providence as Adam could possibly have felt before he had learned that there was a world beyond his Paradise."įor her part, Sophia exalted in the physical pleasures of their union. "A rainy day-a rainy day," begins Nathaniel's first entry in their joint diary, "and I do verily believe there is no sunshine in this world, except what beams from my wife's eyes." While he teased Sophia about her hopeful disposition, he embraced his own new role as spouse with a sense of ease.
They wrote in the same notebook-a small blank volume with marbled-paper covers and a leather spine-read each other's entries, and built a joint narrative of their intimate life as partners in their new home, the Old Manse in Concord. Both Nathaniel and Sophia kept private records periodically throughout their lives, and when they married in July 1842 they began to keep a journal together, each making entries in turn.
Newlyweds Sophia Peabody and Nathaniel Hawthorne chose to keep a diary together, making a joint record of intimate life in their new home.įor the Hawthornes, journal keeping was a family affair.
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