The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-11-09
the course OF true love for once ran smooth. A

Jsnt, consuming tnat IL nus tten Dfc'ly lully
treated Of elsewhere. But lie gives some letters
from Hawthorne written from that famous
place. which are interesting. In ono dated
May g. 1871. wrtton to his sister Louisa. he
says: You arc to know. thon. that took UP
my abode hero on the 18th ult.. In tho midst OF
n snow storm. which kept US all lido for a day
or two. At tho first glimpse Of fair
weather Mr.. Ripley summoned US into the cow
yard and introduced mo to an instrument with
four prongs. commonly entitled n dung fork.
With this tool l havo already assisted
TO load twenty or thirty carts OF ma
nure. and shall take part In loading
nearly three hundred more. Besides. l have
planted potatoes and peas. cut straw and hay
for tho cattle. and done other mighty work.
This very morning / milkcd three cows. and
mictwo or throe overy night and morning.
Tho weather has been unfavorabo that we
have worked littlo In the fields. but nevcrtho-
less have gained strength wonderfully
grown quito Il giant. in fact-can do q days
work without tho slightest Inconvenience. In
short. l am transformed into complete
farmer" Hawthorne wrote number OF let
tors to Miss Peabody from Brook Farm. but
thev related moro to themselves than to the
Brook Farmers. They are extremely personal.
and II il hard to understand how his son could
be induced TO publish them. particularly one
with the postscript: / love you'll | love you
love your aud tho second postscript: DO
you lovc me ut all ~
On the 9th OF July. 1912. Nathaniel ITnw-
thorne and Sophia Peabody were married ut
the house OF DR.. Peabody ID West street. Bos-
ton. The ceremony was performed by tho Rev.
james Freeman Clurk. who. by singular
chance, never aftcrward met Mr.. and Mrs.
Hawthorne until. ON the 10th Of My. 1861. lac
prcuched the funcru. sermon mt Concord Church
over Mr. Hawthornos dead body. The newly
married. couple lived Mt Concord. whore they
began housekeeping in the old manse. and
there Hawthorne wrote his stories in the little
study; there Emerson dropped in with sun
beam in his face" and Ellery Claiming and
Henry Thoreau made themselves gay
otherwise" rs the case might be; and
there Margaret Fuller received rather
independent treatment" Tho Channings
and Margaret Fuller wanted TO 1.-Two
with the llawthornes. but neither Mr.. Haw-.
thorne nor his wife rellshed the idea of such II
household and it doyolyed upon tho former to
write to Margaret Fuller and tell her in as del
icate language as possible that no house was
large enough for two families. Had 1t been
proposed to Adam aud Eve to receive
two angels into their Paradise as board
ers. l doubt whether thoy would have
been altogether pleased to consent Cor
tain / am that whatever might be the tact
and sympathies Of the heavenly guests. the
boundlcss freedom OF Paradise would have at
once become finite and limited by their pres
once. Tho host and hostess would no longer
have lived thor natural life. but would have
had constant reference to tho two angels and
thus tho whole field would nave boon involved
in an unnatural relation. which the whole sys-
TEN Of boarding out essentially and inevitu-
bly, is."
Hawthorne mover cared much for MarGarct
Fuller ut the best of limos. They were
friends. but he did not regard her as some of
hcr admirers did. Julian Hawthorne has
come across an extract from n journal kept by
his father in Rome. in which 10 sums UP his
opinion OF Margaret Fuller ut n considerable
length, and also expresses his opinion
OF her husband Ossoli. OF whom he says
Though technically noble. he is really
Of no rank whatever the elder brother
with the title OF Marquis. being at this
very time working bricklayer. and tho
sisters walking the streets without bonnets-
that is. being OF tho station Of peasant girls"
Ossoli himself. he says. was servant. and
had tho care OF tho apartments Of friend OF
Hawthorne. He a handsome man. but
entirely ignorant even of his own language;
scarcely able to read at all; destitute
OF manners-in short. half an idiot. with
out any pretenson to boing q gentle
man." He professed to have some idea Of
sculpture and worked for four months in
modelling q foot. but when it was finished
Hawthorne says the great toe was on the wrong
side. lie could not possibly have had the
least appreciation of Margaret. and the Won
dor is what attraction she found in this boor-
this man without the intellectual spark-she
that had always shown such n cruel aud bitter
scorn OF intellectual deficiency. As from har
toward him. cannot understand what feeling
there could have been. As from him
toward her can understand as little for she
had not the charm OF womanhood. but she was
At
hor experience in all directions. She had a
strong and coarse nature. which she had
done her utmost to refine with Infinite
pains; but. Of course it could be only
specifically changed. Tho solution of
tho riddle lies In this direction. nor does one's
conscience revolt at the idea OF thus solving IL
TAT least this is my own experienced Margaret
has not left in tho hearts and minds Of those
who know nor any deep witness OF her intcgri-
ty and purity. Sine was a great humbuG; of
COURSE with much talent. or ese she could
never have been 80 great humbug; but she
had stuck herself full Of borrowed qualities.
which she chose to provide herself with but
which had no right In her. Tragic as
her catastrophe was Providence was. after all
kind In putting her and her clownsh hus-
band and her child on board that fated ship.
There never was such tragedy as her
whole story. the sadder and sterner be-
cause 30 much OF the ridiculous was mix
cd up with it. and because she could
bear anything better than to be ridiculous. 1t
was such an awful Joke that she should have
resolved In all sincerity. no doubt. to make
herself the greatest wisest. best woman OF the
age. and to that end she set to work on her
strong, heavy. unp!iable. and In many re-
spects. defective and evil nature. and adorned
it with a mosaic of admirable qualities. such as
she chose to possess; putting in hero splen-
did talent, and there moral excellence and