New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-26
The Old Manse at Concord. Where
Hawthorne Spent His Honeymoon

cation that anyone but himself was response
BILE for his fall from grace; for he said ~ was
fully AS willing to play the person he suspects
Of having entced me, and would have been
influenced by l have great mind to com
mence playing again, merely show him that
scorn to be seduced by another into doing anything
wrong.
After his four years at college Hawthorne returned
To the old house on Herbert-st Salem. and there the
next twelve years of his life passed almost IN soil
tude His old habit of being alone returned with
renewed force, and he wanted nothing but he lot
alone. HIS mother seldom her rcla-
tveS, and strangers. For weeks and even
months at time but the members of the
household entered the house. Iawthornc's lonely
chamber" he referred to IT, was up under
the caves and after leaving the house and revising
II he writes of his old room in his American Notes
Here | sit in my old accustomed chamber where |
used to sit IN days gone by. This claims he
haunted chamber for thousands upon thousands of
visions have appeared TO me IN 1t, and few OF
them have become visible the world. II ever |
should have a biographer, he ought to make great
mention OF this chamber in my memoirs, because
much OF my lonely youth wasted here and
here my mind and character formed, and here |
have been glad and hopeful and here | have been
respondent And here sat long. long time waiting
patiently tor the world to know me, and SomctImcs
wondering why 1t did not know sooner or whether
it would ever know at all-at least. till were IN
my grave. BY and by the world found me
out i'll my lonely chamber and called me iorth-not
indeed, with loud of reclamation. but rather
nothing i'll the world that thought preferable to nv
old solitude; till now"
The years of solitude in the under the caves
IN the Salem house were spent largely III trying his
hand at all sorts OF wntIng-poctry stories, essays
and book called Seven Tales of Ny Native Land
which he said in after years that nc offered seven
teen publishers and none of them found 1t To be
"avaiiabc.' But Hawthorne seems not to have
moved from his determination live Nv his pen
and ne wrote novel called Z" Fanshawe which was
brought out by Boston publishers IN 1925. Haw-
thornes name did not appear with the book and he
bore the expense of having it published The move
made no impression the literary world Of that day
and IN later years Hawthorne regarded the book
with so much disavor that ne DESTROYED all the
copies OF FanShawe" that he could find. It is -
thought that there only four five cop -
: !. !. !: !. I: !: Z
les OF the story IN existence The book
gave little hint of the genius that
the later work of Hawthorne revealed
Like 50 /, my novces in the field y
OF literature, Hawt or had to write Z
many pc boilers to Support HIM ils7c1s1
self, which lite ny performances a.
brought him hts money and less \
ne. lie found friend in the pub $3.50
Usher 5. G.. Goodrich better known
Peter Farley" Goodrich used okHka<
large number of Hawthorne early stories e2
and sketches of all kinds and IT was for
Goodrich that he wrote THE Gentle Bow"
My Uncle MolineauX, Roger Malvin's Burial" and
large number of other stories for publication
called 1.-THE Token"