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FIRST EDITIONS 
 
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 THE WORKS OF 
 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
 
 TOGETHER WITH SOME 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS 
 AND PORTRAITS 
 
 EXHIBITED AT THE GROLIER CLUB 
 
 FROM DECEMBER 8 TO DECEMBER 24 
 
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FIRST EDITIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE WORKS OF 
 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
 
FIRST EDITIONS 
 
 OF 
 
 THE WORKS OF 
 NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE 
 
 TOGETHER WITH SOME 
 
 MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS 
 AND PORTRAITS 
 
 EXHIBITED AT THE GROLIER CLUB 
 
 FROM DECEMBER 8 TO DECEMBER 24, 
 
 1904 
 
 NEW YORK 
 THE GROLIER CLUB 
 
 1904 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 DAVIS 
 
PREFACE 
 
 ATATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was 
 1M born at Salem, Massachusetts, on 
 Independence Day, one hundred years 
 ago. It has been thought fitting that the 
 Grolier Club should mark its interest in 
 his centenary by an exhibition of the 
 works of this, our foremost American ro- 
 mancer. In so doing the Club follows the 
 example of several other institutions, no- 
 tably the Essex Institute of Salem, whose 
 exhibition showed not only the books pub- 
 lished by Hawthorne, but also many ob- 
 jects of a biographical nature. 
 
 The exhibition here catalogued has been 
 restricted to first editions of the writer's 
 works, with some few manuscripts, letters, 
 and portraits. The portrait by the Ger- 
 man historical painter Emanuel Leutze, 
 lent by a gentleman not a member of the 
 
Club, adds not a little of special interest 
 to the occasion. 
 
 Besides the testimony of respect which 
 it bears to the man it commemorates, such 
 an exhibition as this serves to show in a 
 tangible way the scope of Hawthorne's 
 literary genius, and spreads in sequence 
 before the collector the volumes, which, 
 with time, are growing more and more 
 desirable. 
 
 Time, too, brings to these small books 
 an increased interest on the part of the 
 typographer. While individually the vol- 
 umes are unpretentious to a degree, this 
 very simplicity, coupled as it is with legi- 
 bility, gives them dignity, and commends 
 them to the attention of printers. The 
 printing presses of Putnam & Hunt, Free- 
 man & Bolles, Folsom, Wells & Thurs- 
 ton, I. R. Butts, and of many other for- 
 gotten names, not to mention those of 
 better-known firms of forty years ago, 
 will be found remarkable for the good 
 taste of their clear and legible books. 
 
 Whether or not this point of taste be 
 agreed upon, it will be admitted that, side 
 by side, these books put forth by Haw- 
 thorne's publishers show the growth of 
 American book-making in the last sev- 
 vi 
 
enty-five years. In particular, they re- 
 mind us that the process of stereotyping, 
 now rapidly disappearing before the more 
 durable electrotype, in its popular form 
 was of comparatively recent date, having 
 been invented in 1810. It is interesting 
 to note that the legibility of the pages of 
 many of the books is due to the fact that 
 the soft metal stereotype necessitated 
 printing upon dampened paper, to avoid 
 wearing out the plates, and that thus the 
 effect of ink and type was heightened. 
 
 By a survey of the collection, we are 
 forcibly reminded of another interesting 
 fact, which is that cloth, one of the most 
 desirable materials for the bindings of 
 books, is an invention of the nineteenth 
 century. Introduced in England by the 
 binder Archibald Leighton, in 1822, 
 American binders and publishers were not 
 slow to see its value. Used at first with 
 a " smooth-washed " surface, the cloth 
 began to be embossed about 1831, and 
 stamped in blind and gold about 1832. 
 
 Thus the Grolier Club in this exhibition 
 adds a contribution to the celebration, 
 trusting that it may prove to the lovers 
 of Hawthorne an acceptable tribute to his 
 memory. 
 
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WORKS PUBLISHED 
 
 1828-1863 
 
 Fanshawe, A Tale. | " Wilt thou 
 go on with me?" Southey. | 
 Boston: | Marsh & Capen, 362 
 Washington Street. Press Of Put- 
 nam And Hunt. | 1828. 
 
 Duodecimo. 141 pp. 
 
 Copyrighted, July 22, 1828. Published in 
 
 buff boards, cloth back and paper label. 
 
 Hawthorne's first book, published anony- 
 mously and unacknowledged by him. 
 
 Horatio Bridge, his classmate and lifelong 
 friend, says : " It is well known that, soon after 
 graduating, he prepared for the press a little 
 volume of tales, entitled Seven Tales of my 
 Native Land. The publisher who engaged to 
 bring out the book was so dilatory that at last 
 
THE WORKS, OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Hawthorne, becoming impatient and dissatis- 
 fied with the excuses given, peremptorily de- 
 manded the return of the manuscript . . . and 
 though, as he wrote me at the time, he was con- 
 scious of having been too hard in his censures, 
 he would not recede, and he burned the manu- 
 script in a mood half savage, half despairing. 
 As I expressed to him perhaps too strongly 
 my regret for this proceeding, he did not, when 
 Fanshawe was published, confide to me the 
 fact. Hearing, though, of the publication, I 
 procured a copy, and subsequently mentioned it 
 to Hawthorne. He had meantime become dis- 
 satisfied with the book, and he called in and 
 destroyed all the copies he could reach. At his 
 request I burned my copy, and we never alluded 
 to Fanshawe afterwards." 
 
 Hawthorne's sister Elizabeth states : " I recol- 
 lect that he said, when he was still in hopes 
 to publish them (Seven Tales of my Native 
 Land), that he would write a story which 
 would make a smaller book, and get it published 
 immediately if possible, before the arrange- 
 ments for bringing out the Tales were com- 
 pleted. So he wrote Fanshawe and published 
 it at his own expense, paying $100 for that pur- 
 pose. There were a few copies sold, and he 
 gave me one; but afterwards he took possession 
 of it, and no doubt burned it. We were en- 
 joined to keep the authorship a profound secret, 
 and of course we did, with one or two excep- 
 tions." 
 
 James T. Fields states : " I once asked him 
 about this disowned publication (Fanshawe), 
 and he spoke of it with great disgust, and after- 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 wards he thus referred to the subject in a letter 
 to me in 1851 : ' You make an inquiry about 
 some supposed former publication of mine. I 
 cannot be sworn to make correct answers as to 
 all the literary or other follies of my nonage; 
 and I earnestly recommend you not to brush 
 away the dust that may have gathered over 
 them. Whatever might do me credit you may 
 be pretty sure I should be ready enough to bring 
 forward. Anything else it is to our mutual in- 
 terest to conceal ; and so far from assisting your 
 researches in that direction, I especially enjoin 
 on you, my dear friend, not to read any un- 
 acknowledged page that you may suppose to be 
 mine.' " 
 
 Although published anonymously in Boston, 
 and almost immediately suppressed by the au- 
 thor, there is evidence that the book soon re- 
 ceived attention in one quarter at least, for it 
 was generously reviewed in the Critic (issue of 
 November 22, 1828), a periodical published in 
 New York at 27 Wall Street, and edited by 
 William Leggett, from which notice may be 
 quoted : " The mind which produced this little 
 interesting volume is capable of making great 
 and rich additions to our literature, and it will, 
 or we shall be sadly mistaken. The author is a 
 scholar, though he makes no ostentatious dis- 
 play of scholarship; he is a poet, though there 
 are not two dozen metrical lines in the volume 
 with which to substantiate the assertion; he is 
 a gentleman, though the nearest approach to 
 gentlemen in his pages are two country college 
 boys ; and he possesses a heart alive to the beau- 
 ties of nature and the beauties of sentiment, and 
 
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 replete with all those kindly feelings which 
 adorn and dignify human nature." 
 
 It is interesting to note that the copy retained 
 by Nahum Capen, one of the firm of publishers, 
 is now in the Boston Public Library, accompa- 
 nied by a letter of presentation from the donor, 
 dated October 9, 1871. 
 
 2. Twice-Told Tales. | By | Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne. | [Printer's mark] Bos- 
 ton: | American Stationers Co. | 
 John B. Russell. | 1837. 
 
 Duodecimo. [4], [5] 334 PP- 
 Copyrighted, 1837. Published in cloth, 
 title stamped in gold on back. First 4 
 pp. and 16 additional unnumbered pp. at 
 end, publisher's advertisements. 
 On verso of title-page: Freeman And 
 Bolles, Printers, Washington Street. 
 
 This is a collection of tales, all of which had 
 been contributed to annuals and magazines. 
 The publication in this form seems to have been 
 contemplated many years before its issue. S. 
 G. Goodrich (the publisher of the Tokens, and 
 well known as "Peter Parley") in a letter to 
 Hawthorne writes under date of June 19, 1830: 
 " I brought the MSS. which you sent me to 
 this place ... I have read them with great 
 pleasure. The Gentle Boy and My Uncle 
 Molineaux I like particularly ... On my re- 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 turn to Boston in April, I will use my influence 
 to induce a publisher to take hold of the work, 
 who will give it a fair chance of success. Had 
 Fanshawe been in the hands of more exten- 
 sive dealers, I do believe it would have paid 
 you a profit." 
 
 In a letter of Hawthorne to Goodrich, dated 
 May 6, 1830, he refers to the Provincial Tales, 
 adding, " such being the title I propose giving 
 my volume." 
 
 A strong incentive for the publication of these 
 collected tales appeared in The American 
 Monthly Magazine for October, 1836. In a re- 
 view of his last tales in The Token, the ano- 
 nymity of the authorship was exposed and 
 summed up as follows : " If Mr. Hawthorne 
 would but collect his various tales and essays 
 into one volume, we can assure him that their 
 success would be brilliant certainly in Eng- 
 land, perhaps in this country." 
 
 Horatio Bridge says : " From time to time I 
 heard of this intended publication, and con- 
 stantly encouraged Hawthorne to bring out the 
 volume. . . At last ... I wrote to Mr. Goodrich 
 and asked if there was any pecuniary obstacle in 
 the way of the publication ; adding, if that were 
 the cause of the delay, I would obviate it by 
 guaranteeing the publisher against loss." Good- 
 rich's reply, dated October 20, 1836, was: "It 
 will cost about $450 to print 1000 volumes in 
 good style. I have seen the publisher, and he 
 agrees to publish it if he can be guaranteed 
 $250 as an ultimate resort against loss. If you 
 will find that guaranty, the thing shall be put 
 immediately in hand." Bridge gave the requi- 
 
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 site guarantee at once, stipulating only that the 
 affair should be concealed from Hawthorne. 
 Goodrich soon writes to Hawthorne under date 
 of November 7, 1836, " I think your selection of 
 the tales nearly right. Suppose you say, for title, 
 The Gray Champion and Other Tales by N. H." 
 
 Hawthorne later decided upon the title, and 
 on February 9, 1837, Goodrich writes to him, 
 " The Twice-Told Tales will be ready for the 
 public eye in about ten days. It will be a hand- 
 some book, as to the interior, I know it will 
 take." 
 
 The book was, however, not published until 
 March 6, for on March 4 (Saturday), the 
 publisher writes to Hawthorne, " We shall pub- 
 lish your book next Monday. I am directing 
 the presentation copies, as you directed, and 
 have sent you twelve herewith . . ." 
 
 Bridge states: "The success of Twice-Told 
 Tales was not pecuniarily great at first, but in 
 this country and still more in England, where 
 Hawthorne was promptly and highly appre- 
 ciated, the book established his right to a place 
 among living authors of recognized power." 
 
 A review of the book by Longfellow appeared 
 in The North American Review for July, 1837, 
 which was enthusiastically acknowledged by 
 Hawthorne in a letter to Longfellow, on June 19. 
 
 Peter Parley's Universal History, | 
 
 On The Basis Of | Geography. | 
 
 [Vignette] For The Use Of Fam- 
 
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 ilies. Illustrated By Maps And 
 Engravings. | Vol. I. | Boston: | 
 American Stationers' Company. | 
 John B. Russell. 1837. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. Woodcut 
 maps and illustrations. Vol. I : viii, vii, 
 [9]-38o pp. Vol. II: xii, [13] -374 PP- 
 Copyrighted, 1837. Published in stamped 
 cloth. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Cambridge : Fol- 
 som, Wells And Thurston, Printers To 
 The University. 
 
 This work was written and compiled by Haw- 
 thorne and his sister Elizabeth, for on May 5, 
 1836, Hawthorne writes to her : " I saw Mr. 
 Goodrich yesterday. . . He wants me to un- 
 dertake a Universal History, to contain about as 
 much as fifty or sixty pages of the magazine. 
 (These were large pages.) If you are willing 
 to write any part of it ... I shall agree to do 
 it. If necessary I will come home by and by, 
 and concoct the plan of it with you." 
 
 Again on May n: "Our pay as historians 
 of the universe, will be about one hundred dol- 
 lars, the whole of which you may have. It is 
 a poor compensation, but better than the To- 
 ken; because the writing is so much less diffi- 
 cult." . 
 
 Goodrich acknowledges the receipt of the 
 MSS., in a letter to Hawthorne dated September 
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 23, 1836, saying, " Your letter and the two fo- 
 lios of the Universal History were received 
 some days ago. I like the History pretty well, 
 I shall make it do." 
 
 Hawthorne's part in this work is further es- 
 tablished by Goodrich in his Recollections of a 
 Lifetime. In referring to a list of " Parley " 
 books he states, "As to Parley's Historical 
 Compends some nine or ten volumes I had 
 the assistance of N. Hawthorne, and J. O. Sar- 
 gent, Esqs., and others." 
 
 Some of the maps are signed " Devereux. Sc.", 
 but the illustrations are unsigned. 
 
 [Vignette] Time's Portraiture. | 
 Being The Carrier's Address To 
 The Patrons Of The | Salem Ga- 
 zette For The First Of January, 
 
 1838 [1837.] 
 
 Broadside, 16 x 22 inches. 
 The type page (14 x* 20 inches) is sur- 
 rounded by a border of printer's orna- 
 ments. 
 
 The first clue to the authorship of this Ad- 
 dress is given in a foot-note under the word 
 "Hatihornes" : "Not ' Hawthorne,' as one of 
 the present representatives of the family has 
 seen fit to transmogrify a good old name. How- 
 ever, Time seldom has occasion to mention the 
 gentleman's name, so that it is no great matter 
 how he spells or pronounces it." 
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 This tale was never collected and printed by 
 Hawthorne, but it was reprinted as The Carri- 
 er's Address for the first of January, 1853, with 
 a bracketed note to the above note intimating 
 the authorship. (See No. 29.) 
 
 In The Carrier's Address for 1881, we find 
 a further reference to the author of the broad- 
 side : " They unfolded one entitled ' A Por- 
 traiture of Father Time.' One of the boys, as 
 it was read aloud, said he had heard his grand- 
 father say that Nathaniel Hawthorne had as- 
 sisted a past generation of carriers in writing 
 that . . ." 
 
 5. The Gentle Boy: A | Thrice Told 
 Tale; By | Nathaniel Hawthorne: 
 J With An Original Illustration. | 
 Boston: | Weeks, Jordan & Co. 
 121 Washington Street, | New York 
 & London: | Wiley & Putnam. [ 
 1839. 
 
 Oblong quarto. Frontispiece, 20 pp. 
 Published in brown paper covers, bearing 
 the title. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Copyright secured. 
 Press of I. R. Butts, School Street, Boston. 
 
 This tale first appeared in The Token, Boston, 
 1832, and so attracted the attention of Sophia 
 Peabody (afterwards Hawthorne's wife) that 
 
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 she made a drawing which is referred to by 
 her sister Elizabeth as follows : " Whenever af- 
 ter this he called at our house he generally saw 
 Sophia. One day she showed him her illustra- 
 tion of The Gentle Boy, saying, ' I want to know 
 if this looks like your Ilbrahim?' He sat down 
 and looked at it, then looked up and said, ' He 
 will never look otherwise to me.' " 
 
 George P. Lathrop further states : " The draw- 
 ing was shown to Washington Allston, who ac- 
 corded it his praise; and a Miss Burleigh, who 
 was one of the earliest admirers of Hawthorne's 
 genius, having offered to pay the cost of an 
 engraving from it, the design was reproduced 
 and printed with a new special edition of the 
 story, accompanied by a Preface and Dedica- 
 tion." This reads: "To Miss Sophia A. Pea- 
 body, this little tale, to which her kindred art 
 has given value, is respectfully inscribed by the 
 Author." 
 
 In the Boston Daily Advertiser of December 
 31, 1838, this issue of The Gentle Boy was an- 
 nounced as "published this day" by Weeks, 
 Jordan & Co. 
 
 The steel-engraved frontispiece has the leg- 
 end: above, "The Gentle Boy"; below, "The 
 boy had hushed his wailing at once and turned 
 his face upward to the stranger ". It is signed, 
 " S. A. P. 1838 ", " J. Andrews." 
 
 Joseph Andrews (1806-1873), a native of 
 Hingham, Mass., was apprenticed to Abel 
 Brown, the Boston wood-engraver, in 1821. He 
 learned to engrave on copper from Hoogland, 
 and studied under Joseph Goodyear in London, 
 in 1835. 
 
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 6. The | Sister Years; | Being The | 
 Carrier's Address, | To The Patrons 
 | Of The Salem Gazette, | For The 
 | First Of January, | 1839. | Salem. 
 
 I 1839- 
 
 Octavo. 8 pp. 
 
 Issued as a leaflet. 
 
 On verso of title-page : " HAPPY NEW 
 
 YEAR." 
 
 This address, issued anonymously, was, how- 
 ever, collected by Hawthorne in Vol. II of his 
 new and enlarged edition of the Twice-Told 
 Tales, Boston, 1842, after many changes in punc- 
 tuation, and some omission of text. 
 
 7. Grandfather's Chair: A | History 
 | For | Youth. | By Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. | Author of Twice-Told 
 Tales. | Boston: | E. P. Peabody. | 
 New York: Wiley & Putnam. | 
 1841. 
 
 Thirtytwo-mo. vii, [9] 140 pp. 
 Preface dated, Boston, November, 1840; 
 copyrighted, 1840. Published in cloth, 
 with glazed paper label, printed in gilt, on 
 front cover. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Printed by S. N. 
 Dickinson, 52 Washington Street, 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 This is the first part of a series of sketches 
 about New England history for children, and 
 about which Professor Woodberry says : " He 
 gave his attention now to writing some chil- 
 dren's books, partly under the influence of his 
 old ' Peter Parley ' instruction and experience, 
 and partly, no doubt, under the encouragement 
 and advice of Elizabeth Peabody, who was in- 
 terested in such literature. The Peabodys, on 
 removing to Boston, had opened a shop, a li- 
 brary and book-store and homoeopathic drug- 
 store, all in one, of which she was the head, 
 and with her name Hawthorne associated his 
 new ventures. He had contemplated writing 
 children's books, as a probable means of profit, 
 before he received his appointment in the Cus- 
 tom House, as he said in his letter to Longfel- 
 low ; and he merely stuck to the plan under the 
 new conditions. The result was three volumes 
 of historical tales for young people, drawn from 
 New England in the colonial and revolutionary 
 times, under different titles, but making one 
 series: Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old Peo- 
 ple, and Liberty Tree. They appeared in rapid 
 succession in 1841, and were successful." 
 
 In a letter to Longfellow on June 4, 1837, 
 Hawthorne had written : " As to my literary ef- 
 forts, I do not think much of them, neither is 
 it worth while to be ashamed of them. They 
 would have been better, I trust, if written under 
 more favorable circumstances. . . I have now, 
 or shall soon have, a sharper spur to exertion, 
 which I lacked at an earlier period; for I see 
 little prospect but that I shall have to scribble 
 for a living. But this troubles me much less 
 than you would suppose. I can turn my pen to 
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 all sorts of drudgery, such as children's books, 
 etc., and by and by I shall get some editorship 
 that will answer my purpose." 
 
 Of his conscientious motives in this direction 
 we have evidence in his preface to one of this 
 group of children's books, dated January 17, 
 1842 : " This small volume, and others of a simi- 
 lar character, from the same hand, have not 
 been composed without a deep sense of respon- 
 sibility. The author regards children as sacred, 
 and would not, for the world, cast anything into 
 the fountain of a young heart, that might em- 
 bitter and pollute its waters." 
 
 8. Famous Old People: | Being The 
 Second Epoch | Of Grandfather's 
 Chair. | By Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 | Author Of Twice-Told Tales. | 
 Boston: E. P. Peabody, 13 West 
 Street. | 1841. 
 
 Thirtytwo-mo. vii, [9] 158 pp. 
 Preface dated, Boston, Dec. 30, 1840; 
 copyrighted, 1841. Published in cloth, 
 with glazed paper label, printed in gold, 
 on front cover. 
 
 On verso of title-page: Printed by S. N. 
 Dickinson, 52 Washington Street. 
 
 9. Liberty Tree: | With The | Last 
 Words | Of | Grandfather's Chair. 
 
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 | By Nathaniel Hawthorne, | Au- 
 thor of Twice-Told Tales. | Boston. 
 E. P. Peabody, 13 West Street. | 
 1841. 
 
 Thirtytwo-mo. vii, [9] 160 pp. 
 Preface dated, Boston, Feb. 27th, 1841 ; 
 copyrighted, 1841. Published in cloth, 
 with glazed paper label, printed in gold, 
 on front cover. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Printed by S. N. 
 Dickinson, 52 Washington Street. 
 
 10. Grandfather's Chair: A History 
 For Youth. | By | Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne, | Author Of "Twice-Told 
 Tales." | Second Edition, | Revised 
 And Enlarged. | Boston: Tappan 
 And Dennet, | 114 Washington 
 Street. | 1842. 
 
 Sexto-decimo. vii, [9] 139 pp., includ- 
 ing frontispiece and one plate (woodcut). 
 Preface dated, Boston, November, 1840; 
 copyrighted, 1840. Published in cloth, 
 blind and gold stamped. 5 pp. publishers' 
 advertisements at end, beginning on verso 
 of last leaf. 
 
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 On verso of title-page : Cambridge : T. G. 
 Wells, Printer To The University. 
 
 This revised edition contains additions to the 
 text on pages 21, 36-37, 59 and 72, with some 
 other minor changes in text and punctuation. 
 
 11. Famous Old People: | Being | The 
 Second Epoch | Of Grandfather's 
 Chair. By | Nathaniel Hawthorne, 
 | Author Of " Twice-Told Tales/' | 
 Second Edition. | Boston : | Tappan 
 & Dennet, | 114 Washington Street. 
 | 1842. 
 
 Sexto-decimo. viii, [9] 158 pp., includ- 
 ing frontispiece and one plate (woodcut). 
 Preface dated, Boston, Dec. 30, 1840; 
 copyrighted, 1841. Published in cloth, 
 blind and gold stamped. 2 pp. publishers' 
 advertisements at end. 
 On verso of title-page : Press of T. R. 
 Marvin, 24 Congress Street. 
 
 A reprint of the 1841 edition with only minor 
 changes. 
 
 12. Liberty Tree: | With The | Last 
 Words | Of | Grandfather's Chair. | 
 By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author 
 
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 of " Twice-Told Tales." | Boston : 
 Tappan And Dennet, 114 Wash- 
 ington Street. | 1842. 
 
 Sexto-decimo. viii, [9] 156 pp., includ- 
 ing frontispiece and one plate (woodcut). 
 Preface dated, Boston, Feb. 2/th, 1841 ; 
 copyrighted, 1841. Published in cloth, 
 gold and blind stamped. 
 On verso of title-page : Boston ; Printed 
 by Isaac R. Butts, No. 2 School Street. 
 
 The first issue of this new edition appeared 
 with the design of a chair stamped in gilt on 
 the front cover. A later issue, of the same date, 
 appeared without this chair impression and with 
 a different design of stamping on the cloth. 
 
 13. Biographical Stories | For Children. 
 | Benjamin West, Sir Isaac New- 
 ton, | Samuel Johnson, | Oliver 
 Cromwell, | Benjamin Franklin, | 
 Queen Christina. By | Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne, Author of " Histori- 
 cal Tales for Youth," " Twice-Told 
 Tales/' &c. | Boston : | Tappan And 
 Dennet, 114 Washington Street. | 
 1842. 
 
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 Sexto-decimo. v, [7] 161 pp. 
 Preface dated, Boston, Jan. 17, 1842 ; copy- 
 righted, 1842. Published in stamped 
 cloth. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Butts, Printer, 2 
 School St. 
 
 14. Hawthorne's | Historical | Tales | 
 for Youth. [1842.] 
 
 Eighteen-mo. Two volumes. 
 
 These volumes consist of the four preceding 
 juvenile books the first two, Grandfather's 
 Chair and Famous Old People, bound in Vol- 
 ume I, and the other two, Liberty Tree and 
 Biographical Stories, bound in Volume II. On 
 the back of each volume is a binder's title, as 
 above, in gilt, but they have no other title-pages 
 than the individual titles of the four smaller 
 volumes. 
 
 That Hawthorne contemplated having these 
 four juvenile books regularly issued in two vol- 
 umes under this new title is evidenced by the 
 fact that on the title-page of the Biographical 
 Stories he is named as the author of Historical 
 Tales for Youth, Twice Told Tales, etc.; but 
 the project seems to have been abandoned, ex- 
 cept in so far that a small number of these four 
 juveniles were bound in this two- volume form. 
 It was, however, carried out some years later 
 under the title of True Stories. 
 
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 15. The Sunday School Society's Gift. 
 [Boston, 1842.] 
 
 Twentyfour-mo. 16 pp. 
 
 Published as a tract without covers. 
 
 An authorized issue of the biography of 
 Samuel Johnson, after several changes, correc- 
 tions, and omissions of text ; this sketch having 
 formed one of the Biographical Stories. 
 
 In the introductory note, dated Boston, 1842, 
 addressed to " Dear Young Friends," and signed 
 " The Sunday School Society," we read : 
 
 " This story was written by Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne, and he has given us the liberty of 
 printing it for you. He has written some very 
 interesting books both for young and old. 
 Many have read his Twice Told Tales, and 
 the smaller volumes, such as Grandfather's 
 Chair, Liberty Tree, and Biographical Stories, 
 have been read with delight by thousands. ..." 
 
 16. Twice-Told Tales. | By | Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne. | Volume I. | [Printer's 
 ornament] Boston: | James Mun- 
 roe And Company. | MDCCCXLII. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 Vol. I: [3], 331 PP. Vol. II: IV, 356 PP- 
 Copyrighted, Vol. I, 1837; Vol. II, 1842. 
 Published in stamped cloth. On versos of 
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 title-pages : Boston : Printed By Freeman 
 And Bolles, Washington Street. 
 
 Volume I contains the same matter as the 1837 
 edition, with The Toll-Gatherer's Day added at 
 pages 279-289, this tale having first appeared in 
 the Democratic Review for October, 1837. 
 
 Volume II contains a new list of tales, col- 
 lected here for the first time, all of which had 
 been contributed to annuals and magazines. 
 
 17. The | Celestial Rail-Road: By 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne. | Boston: | 
 Published By Wilder & Co., No. 
 46 Washington Street. | 1843. 
 
 Thirtytwo-mo. 32 pp. 
 Published in buff paper, with title on front 
 cover, enclosed in a plain border with or- 
 namental corners. 
 
 On the cover title after "Rail-Road" is a 
 period ( . ), but this is replaced by a colon ( : ) 
 on the regular title-page. 
 
 In 1847 another publisher issued an exact 
 reprint of this little pamphlet, even to the differ- 
 ence in punctuation in cover title and title, the 
 text, however, ending on page 30, the title 
 reading : 
 
 The | Celestial Rail-Road: | By Na- 
 thaniel Hawthorne. | Lowell : | Pub- 
 lished by D. Skinner. | 1847. 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Thirtytwo-mo. 30 pp. 
 
 Published in buff paper, with title on front 
 
 cover, enclosed in ornamental border. 
 
 1 8. A Visit To The | Celestial City. I 
 Revised By The Committee Of Pub- 
 lications Of The | American Sun- 
 day-School Union. Philadelphia : j 
 American Sunday-School Union, ( 
 No. 146 Chestnut Street. [1844.] 
 
 Sexto-decimo. Frontispiece, 54 pp. 3 
 plates. 10 pp. publishers' advertisements 
 at end. 
 
 A revised edition of the preceding title, the 
 revision consisting of the omission, on page 40, 
 of the anecdote about Beelzebub's purchase of a 
 miser's soul for sixpence, which, in the first 
 edition as The Celestial Rail-Road, appeared on 
 page 24. 
 
 The unsigned plates are lithographs, and in 
 the later issues these show the usual defects of 
 wear from many impressions. 
 
 The first issue was published in gold and blind 
 stamped cloth, and some copies include ten 
 pages of advertisements at the end. A later is- 
 sue appeared in boards with roan back having 
 gilt title. In still later issues, or editions the let- 
 tering on the lithograph stones had become so 
 faint that the lines were recut and, in one plate, 
 used as the frontispiece, the page number was 
 recut to read 12 instead of 52 as originally. 
 20 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 These illustrations are much dulled in their im- 
 pression. 
 
 Several editions, not dated, but from the same 
 stereotype plates, appear to have been published 
 some years later. In these the original litho- 
 graph plates were not used, but a copper-plate 
 introduced as the frontispiece. 
 
 Journal | Of An | African Cruiser; 
 | Comprising Sketches Of The Ca- 
 naries, The Cape De | Verds, Libe- 
 ria, Madeira, Sierra Leone, And | 
 Other Places Of Interest On The 
 West I Coast Of Africa. | By An 
 Officer Of The U. S. Navy. Edited 
 By Nathaniel Hawthorne. | New 
 York & London. ] Wiley And Put- 
 nam. | 1845. 
 
 Duodecimo, viii, [v] vi, 179 pp. 
 Copyrighted in 1845. (The copyright 
 form is set in four lines.) Published in 
 buff wrappers as No. I of Wiley And Put- 
 nam's Library of American Books. 
 On verso of title-page, at lower left and 
 right corners respectively, the names of 
 the printer and stereotyper. 
 
 Later editions of the same date have the copy- 
 right form in three lines, and omit the names of 
 either printer or stereotyper, or both. 
 21 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 While Hawthorne is stated to have been the 
 editor of this Journal, he practically rewrote 
 the notes of the voyage furnished by his college 
 classmate Horatio Bridge. 
 
 Bridge himself gives the origin of the volume : 
 " Early in 1843 I was attached to a ship-of-war 
 under orders to the West Coast of Africa. 
 Hawthorne suggested the plan of my taking 
 such notes as would give me material for a few 
 articles in the Democratic Review. This plan 
 was afterwards, by his advice, changed to that 
 of publishing the notes in a book. I assented 
 to the change on the condition that he should 
 take the trouble of editing and bringing out the 
 volume, and with the further condition that he 
 should have the copyright and the sole profit 
 of the publication." 
 
 Hawthorne, on March 24, 1843, writes to 
 Bridge: "I see by the newspapers that you have 
 had the good fortune to undergo a tremendous 
 storm. Good fortune I call it, for I should 
 be very glad to go through the same scene 
 myself if I were sure of getting to dry land 
 at last. . . Perhaps a description of the tempest 
 may form a good introduction to your se- 
 ries of articles in the Democratic. . . What 
 would you think of having them published in 
 a volume ? " 
 
 In writing to Duyckinck on March 2, 1845, he 
 says : " I have remodelled the style . . . when 
 it seemed necessary, and have developed his 
 ideas, where he failed to do it himself, and 
 have put on occasional patches of sentimental 
 embroidery at the same time avoiding to tam- 
 per with his facts, or to change the tenor of his 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 observations upon them; so that the work has 
 not become otherwise than authentic, in my 
 hands." 
 
 On April 17, 1845, Hawthorne again writes to 
 Bridge : " I have christened the book the 
 Journal of an African Cruiser. I don't know 
 when it is to come out probably soon. . . 
 Your last letter arrived when the manuscript 
 was on the point of being sent off, but I con- 
 trived to squeeze in whatever was essential of 
 the new matter." 
 
 Then on May 2 : " Duyckinck writes me 
 that your book is stereotyped and about to go 
 to press. The first edition will be of two thou- 
 sand copies, five hundred of which will be sent 
 to London. It seems they have put in my name 
 as editor, contrary to my purpose, and much to 
 my annoyance. . . I wished you to have all 
 the credit of the work yourself. Well, you 
 shall still engross all the merit, and may charge 
 me with all the faults. I have bespoken fifty 
 copies for you. . . These fifty copies will be 
 paid for out of my avails for the book. . ." 
 On May 7, he writes to Bridge : " I send the 
 Journals as requested, and heartily wish that I 
 could afford to come myself." 
 
 Evert A. Duyckinck of New York, who had 
 acted for Hawthorne in the negotiations with 
 Wiley & Putnam, writes to Hawthorne on 
 October 2, 1845 : " The Journal of the Cruiser 
 has just gone to a second edition of one thou- 
 sand copies, the first, I believe, having been two 
 thousand." 
 
 This statement probably accounts for the 
 changes on the copyright page noted above. 
 3 23 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 20. Mosses | From | An Old Manse. | 
 By Nathaniel Hawthorne. | In Two 
 Parts. | Part I. New York: Wiley 
 And Putnam. | 1846. 
 
 Duodecimo. Part I: [5], 207 pp. Part 
 II: [5], 211 pp. 
 
 Published in paper wrappers as No. XVII 
 and No. XVIII of Wiley And Putnam's 
 Library of American Books. Also in 
 stamped cloth, both numbers in one 
 volume. 
 
 On verso of each title-page, at lower left 
 and right corners, respectively, are the 
 names of the printer, R. Craighead's 
 Power Press, 112 Fulton Street, and stere- 
 otyper, T. B. Smith, Stereotyper, 216 Wil- 
 liam Street. 
 
 Later issues or editions of the same date omit 
 the name of either the printer or stereotyper, 
 or both, and some copies have the name of an- 
 other than the regular printer of the series. 
 
 The paper wrappers for these later editions 
 were reprinted, with the titles on the backs re- 
 set in larger type, and several titles added to 
 the list of books printed on the back covers of 
 each part. 
 
 The publication of a collection of tales was 
 suggested by Duyckinck, and on April 7, 1845, 
 Hawthorne replied : " Messrs. Wiley & Put- 
 nam's proposal, in reference to the collection 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 of tales, seems very liberal, and I shall be glad 
 to take advantage of them, so soon as I find 
 inward and outward quietude enough to write 
 a couple of new stories. Of old tales, I would 
 suggest the following . . ." 
 
 After many months he writes to Bridge, on 
 February 21, 1846: "Wiley & Putnam are going 
 to publish two volumes of my Tales instead of 
 one," and on the following day to Duyckinck : 
 "At last I send you the copy for Part second 
 of the proposed collection; I hope, and fully 
 believe, that it will very soon be followed by 
 the contents of Part first. . . I have bestowed 
 much and solemn consideration upon the title 
 of the book. ' Wall-Flowers from an Old Ab- 
 bey ' occurred to me, but it is too fine. 'Moss 
 and Lichens from an Old Parsonage': that 
 does not go off trippingly enough. ' Mosses 
 from an Old Manse ' suits me rather better ; and 
 if my wife agrees with me, so shall the book be 
 christened. I will tell you in the postscript. All 
 these titles, you will perceive, refer to an old 
 Owl's Nest at Concord, where all but three or 
 four of the tales were written, and to which 
 the introductory article will refer. . ." 
 
 " P. S. We decide on ' Mosses from an Old 
 Manse.' " 
 
 On April 18, 1846 : " I send you the initial ar- 
 ticle promised so many thousand years ago. . . . 
 All the remaining contents of the volume are 
 enclosed, except the Procession of Life, which 
 is so inaccurately printed that I must write out 
 a new copy. . . ." On the outside of the letter 
 he adds : " P. S. I have sent the Procession of 
 Life, so that you now have all." 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 By letter of May 29, 1846, he asks : " When is 
 the book to be issued?" And on June 10: "I 
 should like one dozen copies in cloth the rest 
 in paper. The specimen copy came safe to 
 hand." 
 
 21. The Scarlet Letter, | A Romance. 
 | By | Nathaniel Hawthorne. | Bos- 
 ton: | Ticknor, Reed, And Fields. | 
 MDCCCL. 
 
 Duodecimo, iv, 322 pp. 
 Copyrighted, 1850. 
 
 On verso of title-page: Cambridge: Met- 
 calf And Company, Printers To The Uni- 
 versity. 4 pp. advertisements in front. 
 
 James T. Fields, in his remembrance of Haw- 
 thorne, tells of a visit to Salem to see the author 
 in the winter of 1849 after he had been super- 
 seded at the Custom House. " We fell into talk- 
 ing about his future prospects, and he was, as I 
 feared I should find him, in a very despondent 
 mood. ' Now/ said I, ' is the time for you to 
 publish, for I know during these years in Salem 
 you must have got something ready for the 
 press. . .' 'Nonsense/ said he. 'What heart had 
 I to write anything, when my publishers (M. 
 and Company) have been so many years trying 
 to sell a small edition of the Twice Told Tales?' 
 I still pressed upon him the good chances he 
 would have now with something new. ' Who 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 would risk publishing a book for me, the most 
 unpopular writer in America?' 'I would/ said 
 I, ' and would start with an edition of two thou- 
 sand copies on anything you write.' ' What 
 madness ! ' he exclaimed. ' Your friendship for 
 me gets the better of your judgment. No, no/ 
 he continued ; ' I have no money to indemnify 
 a publisher's losses on my account.' I remem- 
 ber that I pressed him to reveal to me what he 
 had been writing. He shook his head and gave 
 me to understand he had produced nothing. At 
 that moment I caught sight of a bureau or a 
 set of drawers near where we were sitting; im- 
 mediately it occurred to me that hidden away 
 somewhere in that article of furniture was a 
 story or stories by the author of the Twice 
 Told Tales, and I became so positive of it that 
 I charged him vehemently with the fact. He 
 seemed surprised, I thought, but shook his head 
 again ; and I rose to take my leave, begging him 
 not to come into the cold entry. . . I was hurry- 
 ing down-stairs when he called after me from 
 the chamber, asking me to stop a moment ; then 
 quickly stepping into the entry with a roll of 
 manuscript in his hands, he said : ' How in 
 Heaven's name did you know this thing was 
 there? As you have found me out, take what 
 I have written, and tell me, after you get home 
 and have time to read it, if it is good for any- 
 thing. It is either very good or very bad, I 
 don't know which.' On my way up to Boston 
 I read the germ of The Scarlet Letter ; before 
 I slept that night I wrote him a note all aglow 
 with admiration of the marvelous story he had 
 put into my hands, and told him that I would 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 come again to Salem the next day and arrange 
 for its publication. . ." 
 
 This arrangement was made, and on January 
 8, 1850, Hawthorne wrote : " I will send the copy 
 early next week ; perhaps as soon as Monday ; 
 certainly before Thursday. I cannot think of 
 a name for the book, and fear it must go to 
 press without one. It has already cost me more 
 perplexity than any fifty pages of the volume." 
 
 It was Hawthorne's first intention to make 
 the romance one of a volume of several short 
 stories, to be called Old Time Legends: Together 
 with Sketches, Experimental and Ideal; but 
 Fields persuaded him to elaborate the story and 
 publish it as a separate work. " In this latter 
 event," writes Hawthorne to Fields, " it appears 
 to me that the only proper title for the book 
 would be The Scarlet Letter, for the Custom 
 House is merely an introductory. . . If The 
 Scarlet Letter is to be the title, would it not be 
 well to print it on the title-page in red ink ? . . ." 
 
 On February 4, 1850, Hawthorne wrote to 
 Horatio Bridge : " I finished my book only yes- 
 terday, one end being in press in Boston, while 
 the other was in my head here in Salem; so 
 that, as you see, the story is at least fourteen 
 miles long. . . My book, the publisher tells me, 
 will not be out before April. He speaks of it 
 in tremendous terms of approbation. So does 
 Mrs. Hawthorne, to whom I read the conclu- 
 sion last night. . . Judging from its effect on 
 her and the publisher, I may calculate on what 
 bowlers call a ten-strike. Yet I do not make 
 any such calculations. . ." 
 
 The book, however, appeared earlier, about 
 28 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 March 16, for under that date Longfellow en- 
 ters in his Journal : " In town. Hawthorne's 
 Scarlet Letter is just published, a most tragic 
 tragedy. Success to the book ! " 
 
 Later, on April 13, Hawthorne writes to 
 Bridge : " I am glad you like The Scarlet Let- 
 ter. . . This book has been successful : The first 
 edition having been exhausted in ten days, and 
 the second (five thousand copies in all) prom- 
 ising to go off rapidly. . ." 
 
 The second edition appeared with a preface 
 dated Mar. 30, 1850, and a slightly different font 
 of type was used in imprinting the red-letter 
 line on the title-page. Besides this preface there 
 are numerous changes, especially in words, and 
 the printer's imprint on the verso of title-page 
 was reset. 
 
 The popularity of the book having been es- 
 tablished, it was entirely reset and electrotyped, 
 numbering 307 pages, and issued with the same 
 date. 
 
 22. True Stories | From | History and 
 Biography. | By | Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. | Boston: | Ticknor, Reed, 
 and Fields. MDCCCLL 
 
 Duodecimo. Frontispiece, [viii], 335 pp., 
 3 woodcut plates. 
 
 Copyrighted in 1850. Published in 
 stamped cloth, gilt back. 4 pp. publishers' 
 advertisements at end. 
 29 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Cambridge : 
 Printed By Bolles And Houghton. 
 
 This volume comprises the three juvenile 
 books Grandfather's Chair, Famous Old Peo- 
 ple, and Liberty Tree, grouped as The Whole 
 History of Grandfather's Chair. Complete in 
 Three Parts. Parti: pp. [i]-;8; Part II: [79]- 
 158; Part III: [1593-244; with the Biograph- 
 ical Stories added, pp. [245] -335. 
 
 In the first issues the signature-mark (a*) 
 at the foot of page [iii] appears under and to 
 the left of the letter "a" of the last line. A 
 later issue shows this signature-mark placed 
 further to the right, the type of the second from 
 the last line on this page having been respaced 
 for the introduction of a comma (,) after the 
 word " way ". A further correction on page iv 
 appears in the placing of a comma (,) in line 
 18 after the word " which." 
 
 A later edition was published bearing the 
 same date, but the copyright is dated 1851 ; and 
 the imprint on verso of title-page is changed to, 
 T hurst on, Torrey, And Emerson, Printers. It 
 was entirely reset, numbering 343 pp. 
 
 The plates, attractive in design and execution, 
 are signed by Billings and W. Roberts. 
 
 23. Twice-Told Tales. By | Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne. | In Two Volumes | 
 Vol. I. | A New Edition. Boston : 
 | Ticknor, Reed, And Fields. | MD- 
 CCCLI. 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 
 Vol. I: Frontispiece (portrait), 287 pp. 
 
 Vol. II : 288 pp. 
 
 Preface dated, Lenox, January n, 1851; 
 
 copyrighted, 1851. Published in stamped 
 
 cloth. 4 pp. publishers' advertisements in 
 
 front of Vol. I. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Boston : Thurston, 
 
 Torrey, & Emerson, Printers, Devonshire 
 
 Street. 
 
 This new edition is a reissue, by Hawthorne's 
 established publishers, of the two volumes of 
 1842, but with the portrait and eight-page pref- 
 ace added, and many changes in punctuation. 
 
 Writing to his sister on March u, 1850, Haw- 
 thorne says: "All the copies to which I am 
 entitled (only six) of the new edition of Twice 
 Told Tales have been sent here. If possible, 
 I will keep one for you till I come to Salem 
 . . . some time in June." 
 
 The portrait, a bust turned to left, looking 
 front, bears the inscription : " Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne," " Engraved By T. Phillibrown, From 
 A Painting By C. G. Thompson." "Boston, 
 Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1851." 
 
 24. The House | Of | The Seven Gables, 
 | A Romance. | By Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. | Boston: | Ticknor, Reed, 
 And Fields. | MDCCCLI. 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Duodecimo, vi, [7] 344 pp. 
 Preface dated, Lenox, January 27, 1851. 
 Published in stamped cloth. 4 pp. adver- 
 tisements in front. 
 
 On verso of title-page: Stereotyped by 
 Hobart & Robbins, Boston. 
 
 From Lenox Hawthorne writes to Fields on 
 October I, 1850: "I sha'n't have the new story 
 ready by November, for I am never good for 
 anything in the literary way till after the first 
 autumnal frost, which has somewhat such an 
 effect on my imagination that it does on the 
 foliage here about me, multiplying and bright- 
 ening its hues ; though they are likely to be 
 sober and shabby enough after all. I am begin- 
 ning to puzzle myself about a title for the book. 
 The scene of it is in one of those old projecting- 
 storied houses, familiar to my eye in Salem; 
 and the story, horrible to say, is a little less 
 than two hundred years long; though all but 
 thirty or forty pages of it refer to the present 
 time. I think of such titles as The House of 
 the Seven Gables, there being that number of 
 gable-ends to the old shanty; or, The Seven- 
 Gabled House; or simply, The Seven Gables. 
 Tell me how these strike you. It appears to 
 me that the latter is rather the best, and has 
 the great advantage that it would puzzle the 
 Devil to tell what it means." 
 
 A month later Hawthorne suggested " The 
 Old Pyncheon House: A Romance; The Old 
 Pyncheon Family; or, The House of the 
 Seven Gables; A Romance; choose between 
 them. . ." 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Then on the I2th of January, 1851, he writes: 
 " My House of the Seven Gables is, so to speak, 
 finished ; only I am hammering away a little 
 on the roof, and doing up a few odd jobs, that 
 were left incomplete ..." and on the 27th : 
 " I intend to put The House of the Seven Ga- 
 bles into the expressman's hands to-day; so 
 that, if you do not soon receive it, you may con- 
 clude that it has miscarried; in which case, I 
 shall not consent to the universe existing a 
 moment longer. I have no copy of it, except 
 the wildest scribble of a first draught, so that 
 it could never be restored. It has met with ex- 
 traordinary success from that portion of the 
 public to whose judgment it has been submitted, 
 viz. from my wife." 
 
 During the next few weeks the proofs were 
 passing between Boston and Lenox, and in writ- 
 ing to his sister Elizabeth on March n, Haw- 
 thorne states : " My book will be out about the 
 20th, and I have directed two copies to be sent. 
 . . The book, I think, has more merit than The 
 Scarlet Letter; but it will hardly make so much 
 noise as that." 
 
 25. A | Wonder-Book | For | Girls And 
 Boys. By | Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 With Engravings By Baker From 
 Designs By Billings. | Boston: 
 Ticknor, Reed, And Fields. | MD- 
 CCCLII. 
 
 Sextodecimo. Frontispiece, vi, [7] 
 256 pp. 6 woodcut plates. 
 33 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Preface dated, Lenox, July I5th, 1851 ; copy- 
 righted, 1851. Published in stamped cloth. 
 On verso of title-page : Stereotyped by 
 Hobart & Robbins, Boston. 
 
 This work was undertaken soon after the 
 publication of The House of the Seven Gables, 
 for on May 23, 1851, he writes to Fields : " I 
 mean to write, within six weeks or two months 
 next ensuing, a book of stories made up of clas- 
 sical myths. The subjects are: The Story of 
 Midas, with his Golden Touch, Pandora's 
 Box, The Adventure of Hercules in quest of 
 the Golden Apples, Bellerophon and the Chi- 
 mera, Baucis and Philemon, Perseus and Me- 
 dusa ; these, I think, will be enough to make up 
 a volume. As a framework, I shall have a 
 young college student telling these stories to his 
 cousins and brothers and sisters, during his va- 
 cations, sometimes at the fireside, sometimes in 
 the woods and dells. . . I give you these hints 
 of my plan, because you will perhaps think it 
 advisable to employ Billings to prepare some 
 illustrations. There is a good scope in the 
 above subjects for fanciful designs. Bellero- 
 phon and the Chimera, for instance: the Chi- 
 mera a fantastic monster with three heads, and 
 Bellerophon fighting him, mounted on Pegasus; 
 Pandora opening the box ; Hercules talking 
 with Atlas, an enormous giant who holds the 
 sky on his shoulders, or sailing across the sea 
 in an immense bowl; Perseus transforming a 
 king and all his subjects to stone, by exhibiting 
 the Gorgon's head. . . The book, if it comes 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 out of my mind as I see it now, ought to have 
 a pretty wide success amongst young people; 
 and, of course, I shall purge out all the old 
 heathen wickedness, and put in a moral wher- 
 ever practicable. For a title how would this 
 do: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys; or, 
 The Wonder-Book of Old Stories f I prefer 
 the former. Or, Myths Modernized for my 
 Children; that won't do." 
 
 To Bridge Hawthorne writes on October n, 
 1851: "My Wonder-Book I suppose will be out 
 soon. I do not know your direction in Boston 
 . . . but will tell the publishers to hand you one 
 when called for." 
 
 It was published in November in cloth, with 
 the title on the back in gilt, between two small 
 gilt ornaments, and with the same blind stamped 
 designs on the sides as were used for the True 
 Stories, previously published. 
 
 A later edition of the Wonder-Book of the 
 same date (1852) appeared, when the Tangle- 
 wood Tales was published in 1853, with an elab- 
 orate gilt design around the title on the back 
 such as was used for the Tanglewood Tales, 
 making companion volumes, for the latter was 
 also called "A Second Wonder-Book." In this 
 later edition the stamped design on the sides was 
 also slightly changed to conform to that on the 
 Tanglewood Tales. 
 
 Billings, who had had a part in the illustra- 
 tion of True Stories, 1851, was employed to il- 
 lustrate the books, and seems to have brought to 
 the work a very ready appreciation of the sub- 
 jects. His designs, gracefully executed, add 
 materially to the charm of the little volume. 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 26. The Snow-Image, | And | Other 
 Twice-Told Tales. By Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne. | Boston: | Ticknor, 
 Reed, And Fields. MDCCCLII. 
 
 Duodecimo. 273 pp. 
 
 Preface dated, Lenox, November ist, 
 
 1851 ; copyrighted, 1851. Published in 
 
 stamped cloth. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Stereotyped by 
 
 Hobart & Robbins, Boston. 
 
 This consists of a new collection of tales and 
 sketches, all of which had been contributed to 
 annuals and magazines, and of this proposed 
 publication Hawthorne makes mention in a let- 
 ter to Bridge, dated October 11, 1851, saying: " I 
 have also a new volume of Twice Told Tales in 
 press and a new romance in futurity " (Blithe- 
 dale Romance). 
 
 The book appeared with a dedicatory preface 
 to Horatio Bridge, in which the author gives 
 some pleasant glimpses of their college life and 
 long intimacy, and was published simultaneously 
 in London and in Boston early in December. 
 The London issue bears the date of 1851, while 
 the Boston edition is dated 1852, in accordance 
 with the American practice of post-dating books 
 brought out at the end of a year. 
 
 27. The | Blithedale Romance. | By | 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne. Boston: | 
 
 36 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Ticknor, Reed, And Fields. | MD- 
 CCCLII. 
 
 Duodecimo, viii, [9] 288 pp. 
 
 Preface dated, Concord (Mass.), May, 
 
 1852; copyrighted, 1852. Published in 
 
 stamped cloth. 4 pp. advertisements in 
 
 front. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Stereotyped by 
 
 Hobart & Robbins, Boston. 
 
 This romance was commenced before Haw- 
 thorne left Lenox, and finished in his new house, 
 " The Wayside," at Concord, during the spring 
 of 1852, and in a letter to William D. Ticknor 
 on July 13 he refers to the book as to be " issued 
 to-morrow." 
 
 28. Life | Of | Franklin Pierce. | By | 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne. | Boston: | 
 Ticknor, Reed, And Fields. MD- 
 CCCLII. 
 
 Duodecimo. Frontispiece (portrait), 144 
 pp. 
 
 Preface dated, Concord, (Mass.,) August 
 27, 1852; copyrighted, 1852. Published 
 in stamped cloth and paper. 4 pp. of ad- 
 vertisements in front. 
 
 On verso of title-page: Stereotyped At 
 The Boston Stereotype Foundry. 
 37 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 In a letter from Concord on June 17, 1852, 
 Hawthorne writes to Fields, who was in Lon- 
 don : " I meant to have written another Wonder- 
 Book this summer, but another task has unex- 
 pectedly intervened. General Pierce of New 
 Hampshire, the Democratic nominee for the 
 presidency, was a college friend of mine, as you 
 know, and we have been intimate through life. 
 He wishes me to write his biography, and I 
 have consented to do so; somewhat reluctantly, 
 however, for Pierce has now reached that al- 
 titude when a man, careful of his personal dig- 
 nity, will begin to think of cutting his acquain- 
 tance. But I seek nothing from him, and there- 
 fore need not be ashamed to tell the truth of an 
 old friend. . ." 
 
 The book was written during the next two 
 months and issued with a preface dated August 
 27th. Soon after its publication Hawthorne 
 writes to Bridge at some length, explaining his 
 part in this publication, and says : " I did not 
 send you the Life of Pierce, not considering it 
 fairly one of my literary productions. I was 
 terribly reluctant to undertake this work, and 
 tried to persuade Pierce both by letter and viva 
 voce that I could not perform it so well as 
 many others ; but he thought differently ; and, of 
 course, after a friendship of thirty years, it was 
 impossible to refuse my best efforts in his be- 
 half at this the great pinch of his life. Before 
 undertaking it, I made an inward resolution that 
 I would accept no office from him; but, to say 
 the truth, I doubt whether it would not be 
 rather folly than heroism to adhere to this 
 purpose. . . There are scores of men in the 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 country brighter than he is; but Frank has the 
 directing mind, and will move them about like 
 pawns on a chessboard, and turn all their abili- 
 ties to better purpose than they themselves 
 could do. Such is my idea of him after many 
 an hour of reflection on his character while 
 making the best of his biography. . . I love him, 
 and, oddly enough, there is a kind of pitying 
 sentiment mixed up with my affection for him 
 just now." 
 
 The portrait bears the inscription: " Yr 
 friend & Servt Frank. Pierce" "Boston; 
 Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1852." "Engraved by 
 C. E. Wagstaff & J. Andrews from a Portrait by 
 A. Tenney N. H." " C. E. Wagstaff & J. An- 
 drews Print 1 ". 5 " 
 
 Time's Portraiture. | Being | The 
 Carrier's Address To The Patrons 
 | Of The | Salem Gazette, And 
 Essex County Mercury. | [Printer's 
 ornament] For The First Of Jan- 
 uary, | 1853. [1852.] 
 
 Octavo. 8 pp. 
 Issued as a leaflet. 
 
 This address first appeared anonymously, as 
 a broadside, on January I, 1838, but in the pe- 
 riod of Hawthorne's great fame, soon after the 
 publication of the Scarlet Letter, House of the 
 Seven Gables, Wonder-Book, Snow-Image, 
 
 4 39 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Blithedale Romance, and Life of Franklin 
 Pierce, it was reissued in this form with a 
 bracketed note on page 4, signed, " Printers 
 Devil," which practically disclosed the author- 
 ship and reads : " An author has a right to say 
 what he will, about himself; but we guess he '11 
 find that Time will have a good deal to say 
 about him and more fifty years hence than 
 now." 
 
 In The Christmas Locket, Boston, 1870, an un- 
 signed article appeared on Father Time, written 
 by John J. Babson, disclosing the authorship 
 of this address, presumably for the first time, 
 and continues : " but Time's Portraiture, which 
 is herewith presented to the readers of The 
 Christmas Locket, was not reprinted by its au- 
 thor, and is not to be found in any edition of his 
 writings." 
 
 It was afterwards collected in a posthumous 
 volume of the author's works entitled Dolliver's 
 Romance and other Pieces, Boston, 1876. 
 
 30. Tanglewood Tales, | For | Girls 
 And Boys ; Being A Second Won- 
 der-Book. | By Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. With Fine Illustrations. | 
 Boston: | Ticknor, Reed, And 
 Fields. | MDCCCLIII. 
 
 Sexto-decimo. Engraved title, 336 pp. 6 
 plates. 
 
 40 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Copyrighted, 1853. Published in stamped 
 cloth. 8 pp. of advertisements in front. 
 On verso of title-page : Stereotyped At 
 The Boston Stereotype Foundry. 
 
 The engraved title-page, Tanglewood Tales: 
 Another Wonder-Book, and the plates are 
 signed, "Baker Smith Andrews." They all 
 are woodcuts. Little is known of Baker. Heze- 
 kiah Wright Smith (b. 1828) was a Scotch- 
 man, who came to New York and studied with 
 Doney, and in 1850 went to Boston, where he 
 was employed by book-publishers, especially 
 Ticknor and Fields. Joseph Andrews (b. 1807- 
 1873), noted as a line engraver, was employed 
 also by publishers. 
 
 Julian Hawthorne states : " He produced in 
 compliance with many entreaties from young 
 people, and also, no doubt, because he enjoyed 
 the work a second volume .of ' Wonder ' sto- 
 ries, under the title of Tanglewood Tales," and 
 then gives a letter from a young boy urging him 
 to this congenial task, dated December 14, 1851 : 
 " I was so much delighted with your Wonder- 
 Book that I wish you would write another like 
 it. I hope you are having a pleasant time at 
 Lenox. I like the story of the Chimaera, and so 
 I did like the other stories." 
 
 Fields also states that " The composition of 
 the Tanglewood Tales gave him pleasant em- 
 ployment, and all his letters, during the period 
 he was writing them, overflow with evidences 
 of his felicitous mood. He requests that Bil- 
 lings should pay especial attention to the draw- 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 ings, and is anxious that the porch of Tangle- 
 wood should be well supplied with shrubbery. . ." 
 
 On March 16, 1853, Hawthorne writes to 
 Richard Henry Stoddard : " I have finished the 
 Tanglewood Tales, and they will make a volume 
 about the size of the Wonder-Book, consisting 
 of six myths Minotaur, Golden Fleece, Story 
 of Proserpine, etc., etc., etc., done up in excel- 
 lent style, purified from all immoral stain, recre- 
 ated good as new, or better and fully equal, in 
 every way, to ' Mother Goose/ I never did 
 anything so good as those old baby-stories." 
 
 The book appeared during the summer of 
 1853, the first issue having an imprint of the 
 stereotyper on the verso of title-page, while the 
 later issues had the imprint of the printer above 
 that of the stereotyper. These later issues were 
 printed on thinner paper and are also deter- 
 mined by the later date (September, 1853) f the 
 publishers' advertisements bound in the book, in 
 which the price of this book is stated as 88 cents, 
 whereas in the publishers' advertisements in the 
 first issue, dated August, 1853, the book is an- 
 nounced as "just out" without any price. 
 
 31. Mosses From An Old Manse. | 
 By | Nathaniel Hawthorne. | In 
 Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | New Edi- 
 tion, | Carefully Revised By The 
 Author. | Boston: | Ticknor And 
 Fields. | MDCCCLIV. 
 42 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 
 Vol. 1 : 286 pp. Vol. II : 297 pp. 
 
 Copyrighted, 1854. Published in stamped 
 
 cloth. 
 
 On the verso of title-page : Stereotyped At 
 
 The Boston Stereotype Foundry. 
 
 To this revised edition three sketches were 
 added : Feathertop, A Moralized Legend in the 
 first volume; Passages From A Relinquished 
 Work and Sketches From Memory in the sec- 
 ond volume. 
 
 From his consular office in Liverpool Haw- 
 thorne wrote to Fields on April 13, 1854 " I 
 am very glad that the Mosses have come into 
 the hands of our firm; and I return the copy 
 sent me, after a careful revision. When I wrote 
 those dreamy sketches, I little thought that I 
 should ever preface an edition for the press 
 amidst the bustling life of a Liverpool consulate 
 ... I am a good deal changed since those times ; 
 and, to tell you the truth, my past self is 
 not very much to my taste, as I see myself 
 in this book. Yet certainly there is more in it 
 than the public generally gave me credit for at 
 the time it was written. But I don't think my- 
 self worthy of very much more credit than I 
 got. . ." 
 
 In a letter to Ticknor shortly afterwards Haw- 
 thorne mentions a few sketches which had not 
 been collected, and requested that Fields make 
 a selection from these to be included in the new 
 edition of the Mosses. 
 
 43 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 32. The Marble Faun: Or, the | 
 Romance Of Monte Beni. | By | 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author Of 
 "The Scarlet Letter/' Etc., Etc. 
 In Two Volumes. | Vol. I. | Boston : 
 | Ticknor And Fields. | MDCCCLX. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 Vol. 1 : 283 pp. Vol. II : 284 pp. 
 Preface dated, Leamington, December 15, 
 1859; copyrighted, 1860. Published in 
 stamped cloth. 16 pp. publishers' ad- 
 vertisements at end of Vol. I. 
 On verso of title-page: Riverside, Cam- 
 bridge: Stereotyped And Printed By H. 
 O. Houghton And Company. 
 
 Hawthorne, being in England, directed the 
 work of this publication in London, arrange- 
 ments having been made for its simultaneous 
 issue in America by his Boston publishers. 
 
 The London issue appeared in three volumes, 
 duodecimo, with the following title : 
 
 Transformation : | or the | Romance of Monte 
 Beni. | By | Nathaniel Hawthorne | London: | 
 Smith, Elder and Co. | MDCCCLX. 
 
 This romance was begun and the first sketch 
 written while Hawthorne was living in Italy, in 
 a villa on the hill of Montaiito, near Florence, 
 
 44 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 where he had gone with his family in August of 
 1858, but it was not finished until the latter part 
 of the following year, after he had returned 
 to England. 
 
 In a letter of September 3, 1858, to Fields, 
 from Florence, he wrote : " Speaking of ro- 
 mances, I have planned two, one or both of 
 which I could have ready for the press in a 
 few months if I were either in England or 
 America. But I find this Italian atmosphere 
 not favorable to the close toil of composition, 
 although it is a very good air to dream in. I 
 must breathe the fogs of old England or the 
 east winds of Massachusetts, in order to put 
 me into working trim." 
 
 Some months later Hawthorne writes from 
 Rome that he has " come to close grips with a 
 romance which I have been trying to tear out of 
 my mind. As for my success, I can't say much ; 
 indeed, I don't know what to say at all. I only 
 know that I have produced what seems to be a 
 larger amount of scribble than either of my for- 
 mer romances, and that portions of it interested 
 me a good deal while I was writing them." 
 
 Then on October 10, 1859, after returning to 
 England, and still to Fields : " The romance is 
 almost finished, a great heap of manuscript 
 being already accumulated, and only a few 
 concluding chapters remaining behind. If hard 
 pushed, I could have it ready for the press in 
 a fortnight. . . You ask for the title. I have 
 not yet fixed upon one, but here are some that 
 have occurred to me; neither of them exactly 
 meets my idea : Monte Beni; or, The Faun. A 
 Romance. The Romance of a Faun. The Faun of 
 
 45 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Monte Beni Monte Beni: a Romance. Miriam: 
 a Romance. Hilda: a Romance. Donatella: a 
 Romance. The Faun: a Romance. Marble and 
 Man: a Romance. When you have read the 
 work (which I especially wish you to do before 
 it goes to press), you will be able to select one 
 of them, or imagine something better." 
 
 Again on November I7th : " I have quite fin- 
 ished the book (some time ago) and have sent 
 it to Smith and Elder, who tell me it is in the 
 printer's hands, but I have received no proof- 
 sheets. They wrote to request another title in- 
 stead of the Romance of Monte Beni, and I sent 
 them their choice of a dozen. . ." and by letter 
 of February n, 1860: "To return to my moon- 
 shiny Romance ; its fate will soon be settled, for 
 Smith and Elder mean to publish on the 28th 
 of this month. Poor Ticknor will have a tight 
 scratch to get his edition out contemporane- 
 ously ; they have sent him the third volume only 
 a week ago. I think, however, there will be 
 no danger of piracy in America. Perhaps no- 
 body will think it worth stealing. . . Smith and 
 Elder persist in calling the book Transforma- 
 tion, which gives one the idea of Harlequin in 
 a pantomime; but I have strictly enjoined upon 
 Ticknor to call it The Marble Faun; a Romance 
 of Monte Beni." 
 
 After the publication of The Marble Faun 
 there was general disappointment at what was 
 considered an " inconclusive conclusion " and a 
 call for an "explanation" of the mysteries of the 
 tale. One of the first letters Hawthorne re- 
 ceived was from Henry Bright, with whom he 
 had formed a strong friendship : " I 'm in the 
 46 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 middle of Monte Beni (why did Smith and 
 Elder transform it into Transformation? they 
 are rather given to playing pranks with au- 
 thor's titles) and I am delighted with it." And 
 later : " I 've finished the book, and am, I think, 
 more angry at your tantalizing cruelty than 
 either the Athenaum or Saturday Review. I 
 want to know a hundred things you do not tell 
 me ... Of course you '11 say I ought to guess; 
 well, if I guess, it is but a guess, and I want 
 to know." 
 
 Hawthorne's reply was : " Smith and Elder 
 certainly do take strange liberties with the titles 
 of books. I wanted to call it The Marble Faun, 
 but they insisted upon Transformation, which 
 will lead the reader to anticipate a sort of pan- 
 tomime. They wrote me some days ago that the 
 edition was nearly all sold, and that they are 
 going to print another; to which I mean to ap- 
 pend a few pages, in the shape of a conversation 
 between Kenyon, Hilda, and the author, throw- 
 ing some further light on matters which seem 
 to have been left too much in the dark. For 
 my own part, however, I should prefer the book 
 as it now stands." 
 
 This new edition soon appeared in both Eng- 
 land and America with a " Conclusion " added, 
 bearing date of March 14, 1860, making the 
 pages in the last volume of the American edi- 
 tion 288 and in the English 292. 
 
 Hawthorne afterwards said to Bright: "As 
 regards the last chapter of Transformation in the 
 second edition, don't read it ; it 's good for no- 
 thing. The story is n't meant to be explained ; 
 it's cloudland." 
 
 47 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 33. Our Old Home: A Series Of Eng- 
 lish Sketches. By Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. | [Printer's mark] Boston: | 
 Ticknor And Fields. | 1863. 
 
 Duodecimo. [7], [ix] xi, [9] 398 pp. 
 Copyrighted, 1863. Dedication "To A 
 Friend/' dated, The Wayside, July 2, 
 1863. Published in stamped cloth. I p. 
 advertisements at end. 
 On verso of title-page : Riverside, Cam- 
 bridge : Stereotyped And Printed By H. 
 O. Houghton. 
 
 This volume consists of a collection of articles, 
 most of which had recently appeared in the 
 Atlantic Monthly, and on the 30th of April, 
 1863, Hawthorne writes to Fields : " I send the 
 article with which the volume is to commence, 
 and you can begin printing it whenever you like. 
 I could think of no better title than this, Our 
 Old Home; a Series of English Sketches, by, 
 etc. . ." 
 
 As to the dedication, he adds in a letter of 
 May 3 : " I am of three minds about dedicating 
 the volume. First, it seems due to Frank Pierce 
 (as he put me into the position where I made all 
 those profound observations of English scenery, 
 life, and character) to inscribe it to him . . . 
 which also would be very gratifying to my life- 
 long affection for him. . . ." 
 
 Fields, however, was doubtful how the public 
 would look upon a compliment paid to the un- 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 popular ex-President; but Hawthorne carried 
 out his intentions, stating his reasons in a let- 
 ter of July 18 as follows : " My long and in- 
 timate personal relations with Pierce render the 
 dedication altogether proper, especially as re- 
 gards this book, which would have had no exis- 
 tence without his kindness ; and if he is so ex- 
 ceedingly unpopular that his name is enough 
 to sink the volume, there is so much the more 
 need that an old friend should stand by him. 
 I cannot, merely on account of pecuniary profit 
 or literary reputation, go back from what I have 
 deliberately felt and thought it right to do; and 
 if I were to tear out the dedication, I should 
 never look at the volume again without remorse 
 and shame. . . Nevertheless, I have no fancy 
 for making myself a martyr when it is honorably 
 and conscientiously possible to avoid it; ... so 
 I have looked over the concluding paragraph 
 and have amended it in such a way that, while 
 doing what I know to be justice to my friend, 
 it contains not a word that ought to be objec- 
 tionable to any set of readers. . . ." 
 
 The book was published early in the autumn 
 of the year, and in the first issue a publishers' 
 list is printed on the recto of the last leaf of the 
 last signature opposite page 398. In later issues 
 of the same date, this list is omitted from that 
 page and a publishers' list of 22 pages, dated No- 
 vember, 1863, is bound in at the end of the book. 
 
 49 
 
POSTHUMOUS WORKS 
 PUBLISHED 
 
 1864-1883 
 
 34. Pansie: | A Fragment. | The Last 
 Literary Effort Of | Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. | London: John Camden 
 Hotten, Piccadilly. [1864.] 
 
 Sexto-decimo. 48 pp. 
 Published in colored paper covers, with 
 woodcut vignette of a girl, and price, " six- 
 pence," on recto, advertisements on verso. 
 1 6 pp. advertisements at end. 
 
 35. Passages From The 
 
 Note-Books Of 
 
 thorne. 
 Boston : 
 1868. 
 
 Vol. I. 
 
 American 
 Nathaniel Haw- 
 [Printer's mark] 
 
 Ticknor And Fields. 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 
 Vol. I : [2], 222 pp. Vol. II : [2], 228 pp. 
 
 Copyrighted by Sophia Hawthorne, 1868. 
 
 Published in stamped cloth. 
 
 On verso of title-page : University Press : 
 
 Welch, Bigelow & Co., Cambridge. 
 
 36. Passages | From The | English Note- 
 
 Books Of | Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 Vol. I. [Printer's mark] Boston: 
 | Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 1870. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 Vol. I : viii, 410 pp. Vol. II : [i], 393 pp. 
 Preface, signed " S. H." (Sophia Haw- 
 thorne), dated, Dresden, April, 1870; copy- 
 righted, 1870. Published in stamped cloth. 
 On verso of title-page : University Press : 
 Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. 
 
 37. Passages | From The | French And 
 Italian | Note-Books Of | Nathan- 
 iel Hawthorne. | Vol. I. | [Printer's 
 mark] Boston: | James R. Osgood 
 And Company, Late Ticknor & 
 Fields, And Fields, Osgood, & Co. | 
 1872. 
 
 51 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Duodecimo. Two volumes. 
 
 Vol. I : [2], 307 pp. Vol. II : [2], 306 pp. 
 
 Copyrighted, 1871. Published in stamped 
 
 cloth. 
 
 On verso of title-page : University Press : 
 
 Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. 
 
 This work was simultaneously issued in Lon- 
 don by Strahan and Co., Publishers, 56 Lud- 
 gate Hill, in two volumes, pp. 371 and 368, and 
 bore the date of 1871 ; the American practice 
 being to post-date books published late in the 
 autumn of the year. 
 
 38. Septimius Felton; Or | The Elixir 
 Of Life. | By Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. [Printer's mark] Boston: | 
 James R. Osgood And Company. | 
 1872. 
 
 Duodecimo, [v,] [35229 pp. 
 
 Copyrighted, 1871. Published in stamped 
 
 cloth. I p. publishers' advertisements at 
 
 end. 
 
 On verso of title-page : University Press : 
 
 Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. 
 
 39. The Dolliver Romance | And | 
 Other Pieces. | By | Nathaniel Haw- 
 
 52 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 thorne. [Printer's mark] Boston: | 
 James R. Osgood And Company. | 
 1876. 
 
 Duodecimo. 213 pp. 
 
 Copyrighted, 1864 and 1876. Published 
 
 in stamped cloth. Facing title, on p. 2, 
 
 publishers' advertisements of Hawthorne's 
 
 works. 
 
 On verso of title-page : Franklin Press : 
 
 Rand, Avery, & Co., Boston. 
 
 Fanshawe | And Other Pieces. | 
 By | Nathaniel Hawthorne. [Prin- 
 ter's mark] Boston: James R. Os- 
 good And Company. 1876. 
 
 Duodecimo. [7,] [9] 243 pp. 
 Copyrighted, 1876. Published in stamped 
 cloth. Facing title, on p. 2, publishers' 
 advertisements of Hawthorne's works. 
 On verso of title-page : Franklin Press : 
 Rand, Avery, & Co., Boston. 
 
 Doctor Grimshawe's Secret | A Ro- 
 mance | By | Nathaniel Hawthorne 
 | Edited, With Preface And Notes | 
 By | Julian Hawthorne | [Vignette] 
 
 53 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Boston | James R. Osgood And 
 Company. | 1883 
 
 Duodecimo, xiii, 368 pp. 4 pp. fac- 
 similes. Copyrighted, 1882. Published 
 in pictured cloth. 
 
 On verso of title-page : University Press : 
 
 John Wilson And Son, Cambridge. 
 
 Besides the regular edition there were 250 
 copies on large paper. These contained an 
 etched frontispiece by E. H. Garrett, an addi- 
 tional title-page with etched vignette, and the 
 facsimile of a leaf of the manuscript of the book. 
 Issued in white-paper-covered boards. 
 
 54 
 
ANN.UALS AND BOOKS 1 
 
 TO WHICH HAWTHORNE 
 CONTRIBUTED 
 
 1830-1857 
 
 42. The Token; | A | Christmas And 
 New Year's Present. | Edited By S. 
 G. Goodrich. | [6 lines] Boston: | 
 Published By Carter And Hendee. | 
 MDCCCXXX. 
 
 Twentyfour-mo. 
 
 The Young Provincial. Pp. 127-145. 
 
 43. The same for 1831. 
 
 Sights From A Steeple. Pp. 41-45. 
 
 The Haunted Quack, A Tale Of A Canal 
 Boat. By Joseph Nicholson. Pp. 117- 
 
 137. 
 
 /Other than magazines and periodicals. 
 
 5 55 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 44. The same for 1832. 
 
 The Wives Of The Dead. Signed 
 
 " F " Pp. 74-82. 
 
 My Kinsman, Major Molineux. By the 
 Author Of ' Sights From A Steeple.' 
 Pp. 89-116. 
 
 Roger Malvin's Burial. Pp. 161-188. 
 The Gentle Boy. Pp. 193-240. 
 
 45. The Token | And | Atlantic Souve- 
 nir. | A | Christmas And New 
 Year's Present. | Edited By S. G. 
 Goodrich. | Boston. | Published By 
 Charles Bowen. | MDCCCXXXIII. 
 Sexto-decimo. 
 
 The Seven Vagabonds. By The Au- 
 thor Of The Gentle Boy. Pp. 49~7 l - 
 Sir William Pepperell. By The Au- 
 thor Of 'Sights From A Steeple/ 
 Signed "H** *****". Pp. 124-134. 
 
 46. The same for 1835. 
 
 The Haunted Mind. Pp. 76-82. 
 Alice Doane's Appeal. By the Author 
 Of The Gentle Boy. Pp. 84-101. 
 The Mermaid ; A Reverie. Pp. 106-121. 
 56 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 47. The same for 1836. 
 
 The Wedding Knell. By The Author 
 Of Sights From A Steeple. Pp. 113- 
 124. 
 
 The May-Pole Of Merry Mount. By 
 The Author Of The Gentle Boy. Pp. 
 283-297. 
 
 The Minister's Black Veil. A Parable. 
 By The Author Of 'Sights From A 
 Steeple/ Pp. 302-320. 
 
 48. The same for 1837. 
 
 Monsieur Du Miroir. By The Author 
 Of Sights From A Steeple. Pp. 49-64. 
 
 Mrs. Bullfrog. By The Author Of 
 ' Wives Of The Dead/ Pp. 66-75. 
 
 Sunday At Home. By The Author Of 
 The Gentle Boy. Pp. 88-96. 
 
 The Man Of Adamant; An Apologue. 
 By The Author Of The Gentle Boy. 
 Pp. 119-128. 
 
 David Swan. A Fantasy. Pp. 147-155. 
 
 The Great Carbuncle. A Mystery Of 
 The White Mountains. By The Au- 
 thor Of The Wedding Knell. Pp. 156- 
 175- 
 
 57 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Fancy Show Box. Pp. 177-184. 
 
 The Prophetic Pictures. Pp. 288-307. 
 
 49. The Token | And | Atlantic Souve- 
 nir, A | Christmas And New Year's 
 Present. | Edited By S. G. Goodrich. 
 | Boston: American Stationers' 
 Company, | MDCCCXXXVIII. 
 Sylph Etherege. Pp. 22-32. 
 
 Peter Goldthwaite's Treasure. By The 
 Author Of "Twice Told Tales." Pp. 
 
 Endicott And The Red Cross. Pp. 69- 
 78. 
 
 Night Sketches, Beneath An Umbrella. 
 Pp. 81-89. 
 
 The Shaker Bridal. By The Author Of 
 "Twice-Told Tales." Pp. 117-125. 
 
 50. Youth's Keepsake. | A | Christmas 
 And New Year's Gift [ For | Young 
 People. | [4 lines] Boston: Pub- 
 lished By E. R. Broaders. 1835. 
 Twentyfour-mo. 
 
 Little Annie's Ramble. By The Author 
 of " The Gentle Boy." Pp. 147-159. 
 
 58 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 The | Picturesque Pocket Com- 
 panion. | And | Visitor's Guide, j 
 Through | Mount Auburn: | [6 
 lines] Boston: Otis, Broaders And 
 Company. MDCCCXXXIX. 
 Sexto-decimo. 
 
 The Lily's Quest. By Nathaniel Haw- 
 thorne. Pp. 230-239. 
 
 The | Boston Book. Being Speci- 
 mens of | Metropolitan Litera- 
 ture. | Boston: | George W. Light, 
 i Cornhill. 1841. 
 Duodecimo. 
 
 Howe's Masquerade. By Nathaniel 
 
 Hawthorne. Pp. 168-189. 
 
 53. ^Esthetic Papers. | Edited By | Eliza- 
 beth P. Peabody. | [10 lines] Bos- 
 ton: The Editor, 13, West Street. | 
 New York: | G. P. Putnam, 155, 
 Broadway. | 1849. 
 Octavo. 
 
 Art. VIII. Main Street. Pp. 145-174. 
 
 Not signed, but in Table of Contents the en- 
 try reads: Main-street. N. Hawthorne, Esq. 
 
 59 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 54. The | Memorial: | Written By | 
 Friends of the Late Mrs. Osgood | 
 And Edited By Mary E. Hewitt, | 
 With Illustrations Engraved On 
 Steel By J. Cheney, J. Halpin, J. S. 
 Pease, | And H. Beckwith. | New- 
 York: | George P. Putnam, 155 
 Broadway. | 1851. 
 
 Octavo. 
 
 The Snow-Image. A Childish Miracle. 
 By Nathaniel Hawthorne. Pp. 41-58. 
 
 55. The | Philosophy | Of | The Plays 
 Of Shakspeare | Unfolded. | By 
 Delia Bacon. | With | A Preface | 
 By | Nathaniel Hawthorne, | Author 
 Of 'The Scarlet Letter/ Etc. | 
 [Quotation] | London: | Groom- 
 bridge And Sons, | Paternoster 
 Row. | 1857. 
 
 Octavo. 
 
 Preface, signed by Hawthorne. Pp. 
 [vii] xv. 
 
 60 
 
MANUSCRIPTS 
 
 56. The Lily's Quest | An Apologue | by 
 Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 
 Quarto, leaf measuring 7% x 9% inches. 
 Bound in straight-grained mo- 
 
 6V 2 pp 
 rocco. 
 
 Written on white paper, on both sides of the 
 leaf. Folded as sent through the mail by the 
 author. On the verso of the last leaf is the par- 
 tially destroyed address, " [Mrs. Caroline How- 
 ard] Gilman | [Care of Rev.] S. Oilman, D. D. | 
 Charleston | South Carolina." 
 
 Mrs. Gilman was the editor of the weekly pe- 
 riodical The Southern Rose, in which the tale 
 appeared, January 19, 1839. 
 
 A proof of an etched portrait by S. A. Schoff 
 is inserted as frontispiece. 
 
 57. A Wonder Book | for Girls and 
 Boys. | by | Nathaniel Hawthorne. 
 
 61 
 
THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Octavo, leaf measuring 9% x 7% inches. 
 134 pp. Proof before letters of portrait 
 engraved by Phillibrown, inserted as fron- 
 tispiece. Bound in red half-morocco. 
 
 Written on blue paper, on both sides of the 
 leaf. The preface is dated, Lenox, July 15, 1851. 
 
 58. The Snow-Image | a childish mir- 
 acle. 
 
 Octavo, leaf measuring 7% x 97s inches. 
 15 numbered pp. Unbound. 
 
 Written on white paper, on one side of seven 
 double sheets and one half sheet. 
 
 First published in The Memorial, 1851 (No. 
 54)- 
 
 59. [Life of Franklin Pierce.] 
 
 Folio and quarto, leaves measuring 7-ff 
 x 12% inches, and 7yf x 9ii inches. 58 
 numbered pp. as follows : " Preface," [2] 
 pp., [Text], pp. 24-37, 38-39, 53-77, 84- 
 87, " Note," 88. 9 unnumbered pp. with 
 directions " Insert at pp. 37 of my manu- 
 script." Unbound. 
 
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THE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
 
 Written on blue paper, on one side of the 
 leaf, except the insert, which is written on both 
 sides. 
 
 The Preface is dated Concord, (Mass.), Au- 
 gust 27th, 1852. 
 
 Accompanying the manuscript are six letters 
 from Hawthorne to Ticknor and six letters 
 from President Pierce to the publisher. 
 
 60. [Doctor Grimshawe's Secret.] 
 
 Quarto, leaf measuring ?H x 9^ inches. 
 19 11., numbered as follows: 9-12, 32-35, 
 39-43, 52-53, 70-73. Unbound. 
 
 Written on white paper, on both sides of the 
 leaf except the verso of 1. 43, which is blank. 
 
 Written in Concord, Massachusetts, 1863, pub- 
 lished 1883. 
 
LETTERS 
 
 6l. GROUP OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY- 
 TWO LETTERS FROM HAWTHORNE TO 
 
 SOPHIA A. PEABODY, 1839-1863. 
 
 Nearly all of the first fifty-eight letters, 
 beginning March 6, 1839, are from Bos- 
 ton, some being dated at the Custom 
 House, where he was employed at the 
 time. 
 
 Then follow forty-six letters written 
 from Salem, Brook Farm (West Rox- 
 bury), Albany, and New York, ending 
 with one dated at Salem, June 30, 1842, a 
 few days before their wedding, which took 
 place in Boston, July 9, 1842, at the home 
 of her father, Dr. Peabody. 
 
 An interval of some months is broken by 
 
 a letter from Salem dated March 12, 1843, 
 
 and the remaining forty-seven letters were 
 
 written at intervals during the next twenty 
 
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 years. A few are dated at Liverpool and 
 London, and the last is from Salem, May 
 9, 1863. 
 
 62. GROUP OF ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY- 
 NINE LETTERS FROM HAWTHORNE 
 
 TO WILLIAM D. TICKNOR, 1851- 
 1864. 
 
 The first of these letters is from Lenox, 
 Mass., dated November 14, 1851, soon 
 after the publication of the Wonder-Book 
 and The House of the Seven Gables, and 
 the following fifteen are from Concord, 
 June 8, 1852, to July 5, 1853. 
 
 The next ninety-two cover the period 
 of Hawthorne's consulate at Liverpool, be- 
 ginning with one dated July 22, 1853, and 
 ending with another September 26, 1857, a 
 few having been written from Southport, 
 Leamington, and Lake Windemere. 
 
 While on the Continent, during the next 
 two years, Hawthorne wrote occasionally 
 from Paris and Rome, and after returning 
 to England a number were written from 
 Leamington and Bath. 
 
 The remaining twenty-seven are from 
 Concord, except one from Ellsworth, 
 Maine, after he returned to the United 
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 States. The last of these bears the date of 
 March 18, 1864, ten days before leaving 
 Boston with Ticknor on a trip to Wash- 
 ington, brought to an end by Ticknor's 
 sudden death at Philadelphia on April 10. 
 Hawthorne only survived him by a few 
 weeks, his own death coming as suddenly 
 on the i Qth of May. 
 
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PORTRAITS 
 
 63. PORTRAIT IN OILS, BY EMANUEL 
 LEUTZE (1816-1868). PAINTED IN 
 1862. 
 
 Hawthorne visited Washington in March, 
 1862, and meeting Leutze, the artist, con- 
 sented to sit for a portrait, and thus de- 
 scribes one sitting : " I stay here only 
 while Leutze finishes a portrait, which I 
 think will be the best ever painted of the 
 same unworthy subject. One charm it 
 must needs have, an aspect of immortal 
 jollity and well-to-do-ness; for Leutze, 
 when the sitting begins, gives me a first- 
 rate cigar, and when he sees me getting 
 tired, he brings out a bottle of splendid 
 champagne; and we quaffed and smoked 
 yesterday, in a blessed state of mutual 
 good-will, for three hours and a half, dur- 
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 ing which the picture made a really mi- 
 raculous progress. Leutze is the best of 
 fellows." 
 
 64. PHOTOGRAPH BY SILSBEE, CAGE & 
 Co., BOSTON, MASS. 
 
 Of this, or another of the photographs 
 taken just at this time (1862), Hawthorne 
 writes : " My hair really is not so white as 
 this photograph, which I enclose, makes 
 me. The sun seems to take an infernal 
 pleasure in making me venerable, as if 
 I were as old as himself." 
 
 65. PHOTOGRAPH OF A PORTRAIT IN 
 CRAYON, BY SAMUEL WORCESTER 
 ROWSE (b. 1822). 
 
 The crayon was made by Rowse in 1866, 
 in the second year after Hawthorne's 
 death, and probably from the photograph 
 described above. Mrs. Hawthorne, in a 
 letter to Mr. Fields, written just after 
 seeing the crayon, thus describes her im- 
 pression : " Rose was struck blind (as I 
 was giddy) when she first looked at the 
 portrait, but when she got home she said 
 there was a want, she believed it was lack 
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 of sweetness and radiance of expression 
 but something. But she says it is a mira- 
 cle that Mr. Rowse has performed, as it 
 is. I wish I could bless you in some way, 
 but I can't." 
 
 In 1871 Fields writes: "The portrait 
 I am looking at was made by Rowse (an 
 exquisite drawing), and is a very truthful 
 representation of the head of Nathaniel 
 Hawthorne. He was several times painted 
 and photographed, but it was impossible 
 for art to give the light and beauty of his 
 wonderful eyes." 
 
 Group of proofs of half-tones made 
 from portraits, daguerreotypes, and 
 photographs taken during the pe- 
 riod from 1840 to 1862. 
 
 Exhibited by permission of the Essex 
 Institute. 
 
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