. In olde Massachusetts; sketches of old times and places during the early days of the commonwealth . package of yellow documents, manifests,orders, and the like, with the authors autograph inred ink upon them. No other relics remain. TheCustom-house was refurnished in 1873, and Haw-thornes desk was then removed to the Essex Institute,where it is still preserved. From this room our guideled us up-stairs and through the Collectors parlors to alittle ante-chamber, which he said in Hawthornes daywas used for storing old papers and rubbish. It wasin this room — the weird genius tells his readers —
. In olde Massachusetts; sketches of old times and places during the early days of the commonwealth . package of yellow documents, manifests,orders, and the like, with the authors autograph inred ink upon them. No other relics remain. TheCustom-house was refurnished in 1873, and Haw-thornes desk was then removed to the Essex Institute,where it is still preserved. From this room our guideled us up-stairs and through the Collectors parlors to alittle ante-chamber, which he said in Hawthornes daywas used for storing old papers and rubbish. It wasin this room — the weird genius tells his readers —that he found the manuscript of the Scarlet guide was very skeptical on this point. I dontbelieve he did, said he; I think he made it all uphimself. But we forbore expressing an opinion. Alittle later we climbed alone to the cupola. It is a smallroom under the gilded eagle, commanding a charmingview of Salem, the shipping, and the sea the author loved to climb and coin the airyfancies that later found expression in the ScarletLetter and the House of the Seven o m U Another View of Salem 67 There are many well-preserved old men in thetown who remember Hawthorne as Surveyor of thePort. One — a portly, comfortable-looking old gentle-man, who, when the author was filling his sinecureposition in the Custom-house, was fitting with riggingand sails the numerous craft turned out of Salemship-yards — now rich and retired, had nothing betterto do than to accompany me up the street and pointout two ancient buildings quite intimately connectedwith our authors history. The Hawthornes arean old family in Salem, he remarked, as we beganour walk, and well thought of. Major William Haw-thorne, who came with Governor Winthrop in theArabella, founded the stock, and there have beennotable and thrifty men among them ever since. Thisis No. 21 Union Street, a quaint old structure, withhuge chimney and dormer roof, as you see. Well, inthe upper northeast corne
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