This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... quarrel and grating discord of clamorous hucksters. It is only afterwards, and in the mind's eye, that it is possible to connect the to-day's fallen estate with the coming of that dreaming weaver of romance. Numbered 1o and 12 on Herbert Street, the next street leading from Essex Street, and back of Hawthorne ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... quarrel and grating discord of clamorous hucksters. It is only afterwards, and in the mind's eye, that it is possible to connect the to-day's fallen estate with the coming of that dreaming weaver of romance. Numbered 1o and 12 on Herbert Street, the next street leading from Essex Street, and back of Hawthorne's birthplace, is the old Manning homestead, the property of his grandfather, and to which his widowed mother removed in 1808, when Nathaniel was four years old. Most of his boyhood was spent here; and he came back to it, at intervals, for longer or shorter visits. The house is outwardly square and ugly, and the interior has been cut up into tenements. However, it is of great interest, on account of its association with his early work. Hawthorne's room was in the southwest corner of the third story, overlooking his birthplace. Of it, he himself has written: "Here I sit in my old accustomed chamber, where I used to sit in days gone by. Here I have written many tales. Should I have a biographer, he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because so much of my lonely youth was wasted here." And again: "In this dismal chamber Fame was won." At the other end of Herbert Street is Derby Street, and on the corner is a house to which Hawthorne was always welcome, where he spent a part of his time in a chamber kept ever ready for him, and in which, and in the old garden, he wrote some of his earlier stories. Antique and dilapidated, it is one of the most picturesque houses in Salem; for the summer-house, where the romancer loved to sit, is tumbling to pieces, and the garden is forlorn in its neglect. All sorts of weeds grow rankly in its wastes, and a little thicket of crowding poplars nearly hides, with the gray...
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