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 . that they remainedsuch as to enable him, with current and subsequentreceipts from his books, to pass the rest of his dayswithout pecuniary solicitude. The year 1858 anda part of 18
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 . that they remainedsuch as to enable him, with current and subsequentreceipts from his books, to pass the rest of his dayswithout pecuniary solicitude. The year 1858 anda part of 1859, succeeding his voluntary retirementfrom the consulate, were spent by the Hawthornefamily in France, Switzerland and Italy, and his French and Italian Note Books, with the Ro-mance of Monte-Beni, the latter perhaps the mostwidely read of all Hawthornes works, made thepublic better acquainted with this part of his lifethan with any other. It was early during his firststay at Rome that the conception of The MarbleFaun, the most elaborate and the longest of histales, began, to take shape in his mind. Its first sketchwas produced at the Villa of Montanto, near the cityof Florence, but this was rewritten and elaboratedat Redcar on the northeastern coast of England, andthen published simultaneously (1860) in Boston,Mass., and at London, the book appearing in Eng-land with the title of Transformation. The second. stay in England lasted for a year from the middle of1859. In June, 1860, he was again at The Way-side, in Concord, Mass., with his family, whichplace he proceeded to partially reconstruct, and ma-terially to beautify. In the agitations preceding theoutbreak of the civil war, he took little or no part,publicly, but his position when war came, wheneverit was known, was a well-known one of decidedsympathy with the government of his country. Ina letter dated May 36, 1861, he said: One thing asregards this matter I regret, and one thing I am gladof. The regrettable thing is, t
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