Title: Passages from the Letters and the Unfinished Romances

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Title: Passages from the Letters and the Unfinished Romances Title Record # 2263269
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Date: 2005-00-00
Type: ESSAY
Language: English

Note: Excerpts from the unfinished novels that Hawthorne attempted to write from 1860 onwards, interspersed with excepts (about writing) from letters. Contents:

To Horatio Bridge, October 1861 ["I have not found it possible to occupy my mind with its usual trash and nonsense..."]
from "The American Claimant" ["This grave yard (we are sorry to have to treat of such a disagreeable piece of ground..."]
To Francis Bennoch, London, October 1862 ["I wish you could come and see us..."]
from "The Elixir of Life" ["But Septimius's mind, we readily say, was not in a healthy state..."]
To James T. Fields, October 1863 ["I can't tell you when to expect an instalment of the Romance..."]
from "The Elixir of Life" ["Various interruptions kept him from further examination of the manuscript..."]
To James T. Fields, December 1863 ["I have not yet read the proof-sheet..."]
from "The Elixir of Life" ["It has often seemed to me that winter is the active time..."]
To Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, January 1864 ["I have been much out of sorts of late..."]
from "The Elixir of Life" ["Doctor Dolliver, a worthy personage of extreme antiquity..."]
To James T. Fields, February 1864 ["I hardly know what to say to the Public..."]

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist	Verif
The Portable Hawthorne	2005-00-00	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Penguin Books (US) (Penguin Classics)	0-14-303928-8	$18.00^?$: US dollar	xxii+ 439	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	coll

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