Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, The,
The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised. Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Co., 1832. Thick 12mo.; marbled endpapers; 2" rectangular piece cut out from the middle of the first blank; marbled edges, crimson morocco, stamped in gilt.
A Peabody-Hawthorne family bible, inscribed by Sophia Peabody Hawthorne on the title page using her maiden name, Sophia A. Peabody / July 13, 1833. With a quotation from Proverbs chapter fourteen, number 10—on the second blank: The heart knoweth its own bitterness, & a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy. With extensive marginalia throughout mostly in Sophia's hand, although there are some passages, including one on pg. 655, which bear a strong resemblance to that of her husband. Sophia also made notes in faint pencil on the Old Testament and New Testament blanks. In the Book of Job, Sophia wrote at the bottom of one page, “Oh that one would write my cause in a book (614), and several significant markings appear in Proverbs three exclamation points next to Verse 20 (“The poor is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich hath many friends”) and Verse 29 (“He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly”) is underlined twice. On the front endpapers under the heading “Numbers embrace all natural Philosophy” is a 29 line entry in an unknown hand perhaps Elizabeth Peabody, perhaps Hawthorne, whose handwriting this resembles. Sophia was raised in a very religious home; her mother was a devout Unitarian. From the markings in her Bible, it is clear that Sophia took her faith very seriously and studied her Bible from an intellectual as well as spiritual standpoint.
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