Talks about authors and their work . The Desk at which Nathaniel Hawthorne sat as Surveyor of the Portof Salem. Now preserved at the Essex Institute. by very young people. The part of his lifespent in Italy touched his sensitive spirit as withfire, and inspired by the beauty of Italian life andart he wrote The Marble Faun and The ItalianNote Books, also a record of the life in Italy. 60 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. He was restless about staying in one placevery long, and his son says that when he was inEngland he longed for Paris and Italy, and athome in America he longed for England. While living in
Talks about authors and their work . The Desk at which Nathaniel Hawthorne sat as Surveyor of the Portof Salem. Now preserved at the Essex Institute. by very young people. The part of his lifespent in Italy touched his sensitive spirit as withfire, and inspired by the beauty of Italian life andart he wrote The Marble Faun and The ItalianNote Books, also a record of the life in Italy. 60 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. He was restless about staying in one placevery long, and his son says that when he was inEngland he longed for Paris and Italy, and athome in America he longed for England. While living in their beautiful* home in Con-cord, the Wayside, he completed the Tangle-. HAWTHORNES home—THE WAYSIDE. wood Tales and wrote The Life of Pierce, hiscollege friend who became President of theUnited States. Hawthornes wife, in writing ofone of their walks near Walden Pond whereThoreau had his little hut, says, All that ground TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. 61 is consecrated to me by unspeakable went up the bare hill opposite the Old Manseand I descended on the other side so I could lookup the avenue and see our first home. Wereturned through Sleepy Hollow and walkedalong a stately broad path which we used to sayshould be the chariot-road to our castle, whichwe would build on the hill to which it leads. Julian Hawthorne, in writing of this letter ofhis mothers, says, The hill in Sleepy Hollowon which our castle was to stand is now thesite of Hawthornes grave; and the chariot-roadwas the path up which his funeral processionmounted. He died suddenly at Plymouth,Mass., in 1864, and his body rests in the quietcemetery of Sleepy Hollow, in Concord, near theshin
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