"Letter from Hawthorne"

Lot 327
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Lot 327 | "Letter from Hawthorne"
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[HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864).] "Letter from Hawthorne." In: The Weal-Reaf. A Record of the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem. 4-8 September 1860, with two supplementary numbers, 10-11 September 1860.

The Zimbalist copy of The Weal Reaf, printing “Letter from Hawthorne” for the first time, from the 1860 Essex Institute Fair at Salem. “Letter from Hawthorne” appears in nos. 2 & 3 (5 & 6 September 1860). Framed as a letter to "My Dear Cousin" who has requested a story, he explains that since writing Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an old Manse, "my mind seems to lost the plan and measure of those little narratives, in which it was once so unprofitably fertile. I can write no story, therefore; but (rather than be entirely wanting to the occasion,) I will endeavor to describe a spot near Salem, on which it was once my purpose to locate such a dream fiction as you now demand of me." He goes on to describe "that conspicuous hill" which "used in my younger days, to be known by the name of 'Browne's Folly,'" and a nearby mansion with a haunted closet—he recounts the tale of schoolboys who succeeded in opening its door one day: "As it flew open, there was a vision of people in garments of antique magnificence,—gentlemen in curled wigs and tarnished gold lace, and ladies in brocade and quaint-head dresses, rushing tumultuously forth and tumbling upon the floor." The "urchins took to their heels"—until realizing "the apparition was composed of a mighty pile of family portraits." Clark D83.

Seven parts, square octavo. Unopened. Title leaf, adverts, and nos 1-7 (title leaf torn across upper margin and repaired with tape); modern clamshell box. Provenance: Efrem Zimbalist (bookplate).
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