The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Appendix to Volume XII: Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop / Biographical Sketch of Nathaniel Hawthorne

by George Parsons Lathrop

New York, May 20, 1883.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] A Study of Hawthorne, III., 67-69.

[2] Yesterdays With Authors, p. 113.

[3] Both his friends, George William Curtis and George S. Hillard, in writing about him, have made the mistake of assigning to him black or dark eyes; an error perhaps due to the depth of shadowed cavity in which they were seen under the high and massive forehead.

[4] Hawthorne and his friends: Harper's Magazine, vol. 63 (July, 1881).

[5] Vol. 45 (July, 1837), p. 59.

[6] Transcendentalism in New England.

[7] She died, unmarried, in September, 1877.

[8] The allusion to a baby-boy is confusing, because Mr. Julian Hawthorne was not born at Concord, and when the family returned thither to occupy The Wayside, he was about six years old.