The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mes Russell Lowell, inwhich was a proposal from Edgar , that Hawthorne should write for hisnew magazine, and be engraved to adornthe first number, March 3, 1844. His firstchil
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . mes Russell Lowell, inwhich was a proposal from Edgar , that Hawthorne should write for hisnew magazine, and be engraved to adornthe first number, March 3, 1844. His firstchild, Una, who died in England in 1877,was born at Concord, Mass. His onlysou, Julian, was born at Boston, Mass.,June 22, 1846, and his only other daugh-ter, Rose, at Lenox, Mass., May 20, was now writing stories for the Dem-ocratic Review, at Washington, D. C,for comparatively small remuneration, andthat not always promptly made. Thesestories were collected and published in Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846. Hehad also edited (1844) the African Journal of hisfriend and college classmate. Bridge, of the U. , and Papers of an Old Dartmoor Prisoner,for the Democratic Review. In 1846 he receivedthe appointment of surveyor of customs at Salem,from the administration of President Polk, and inhis introduction to The Scarlet Letter, gave thestory of his life there from that year to 1849. HisIII.—5. —4. salary was, as when he was in the public service be-fore, only $1,200 per year, but he now did a gooddeal of writing, chief of which was the first draft ofthat remarkable romance which was finished at Len-ox, Mass., and published in 1850. The success ofthe book was pronounced in every respect, 5,000copies being sold in two weeks in America, thethieving propensities of several booksellers in Englandbeing stimulated by it: they brought out rival edi-tions, and its issue proved the favorable literary andfinancial turning-point in the career of its , Mr. Jame
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