Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . pposite, Mr. Emerson is standing near the porch. The Old Manse. Hardly less important, and more fair to see,is the Old Manse, the home of the Rev. William Emerson, Emer-sons grandfather, then of Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley (1751-1841), whomarried William Emersons widow. Dr. Ripley published a His-tory of the Fight at Concord, besides many sermons. In their day,it was, as the name implies, the parsonage of Concord. Built in 44 CONCORD 1765, it is now a home for some of Dr. Ripleys descendants. Here,ju
Literary landmarks of Boston : a visitor's guide to points of literary interest in and about Boston . pposite, Mr. Emerson is standing near the porch. The Old Manse. Hardly less important, and more fair to see,is the Old Manse, the home of the Rev. William Emerson, Emer-sons grandfather, then of Rev. Dr. Ezra Ripley (1751-1841), whomarried William Emersons widow. Dr. Ripley published a His-tory of the Fight at Concord, besides many sermons. In their day,it was, as the name implies, the parsonage of Concord. Built in 44 CONCORD 1765, it is now a home for some of Dr. Ripleys descendants. Here,just before his second marriage (to Miss Lydia Jackson) in 1835,Emersion boarded (1834-1835) with his grandparents, and here toohis family repaired for a time after the partial burning of his ownhouse. On his marriage with Miss Sophia Peabody in July, 1842,and after his experience at Brook Farm, Nathaniel Hawthorne (seealso Salem) also made the Old Manse his home, and lived theretill 1846, when he went to Salem. Mr. Bacon, in his Walks andRides, tells us that the most satisfactory view of the Manse. HOME OF RALPH WALDO EMERSONCONCORD is of the back from the river side, and that the decaying orchard inthe rear was set out by Dr. Ripley. Hawthornes study was on thesecond floor over the dining-room, and here Emerson wrote one ofhis greatest essays, Nature, and from here William Emerson^swife saw the fight at Concord Bridge. The Wayside, where Hawthorne had his residence from 1852till his death in 1864, is next in importance. In 1845, A. BronsonAlcott (i799-1888) bought this estate, calling it Hillside, andsold it later to Hawthorne, who gradually adorned the surroundingsto suit his own taste, and on his return from Italy made some im-portant changes in the house itself, enlarging it and adding thetower-like structure which served as his study and, what was more CONCORD 45 essential, his hiding-place. The Library stood on the first floor, butHawthorne was not a man of many books. At
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