Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . I 2 -^..^^--TOH. OLD BOSTON CLSTOM IN WHICH HAWTHORNE SERVED AS AYOUNG MAN. IN OLD BOSTON 387 weeks Home Journal? with a nonchalant,Oh, yes, Tom. They shoved the paper undermy door this morning and I heard your Httletinkle. Yet on the walls of Aldrichs study,I noticed opposite a portrait of Edwin Booth aphotograph of Walt Whitman! Bancroft and Hawthorne can be more easilyconnected with the Boston Custom House thanwith any other institution of the city, for it waswhile the historian was
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . I 2 -^..^^--TOH. OLD BOSTON CLSTOM IN WHICH HAWTHORNE SERVED AS AYOUNG MAN. IN OLD BOSTON 387 weeks Home Journal? with a nonchalant,Oh, yes, Tom. They shoved the paper undermy door this morning and I heard your Httletinkle. Yet on the walls of Aldrichs study,I noticed opposite a portrait of Edwin Booth aphotograph of Walt Whitman! Bancroft and Hawthorne can be more easilyconnected with the Boston Custom House thanwith any other institution of the city, for it waswhile the historian was collector of the Portthat he gave Hawthorne that place in thegovernments service from which the younggenius was able to save money enough to buysome stock in Brook Farm. Hawthorne, be-cause of his shy temperament and his poverty,was so obscure as to have been practicallyunknown in Boston during this period. Hisson-in-law records that his chief distinction, tothe popular eye, at this time, lay in the fact thathe was extremely fond of martial music andcould generally be found — a tall shapelyfigure rendered mili
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