Sketches from Concord and Appledore
Frank Preston Stearns · English
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Sketches from Concord and Appledore
Frank Preston Stearns · English
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HAWTHORNE. The literary celebrities of Concord, with the exception of Thoreau, were not indigenous. Emerson may have gone there from an hereditary tendency, but more likely because his cousins the Ripleys dwelt there. Hawthorne came there by way of the Brook Farm experiment. How, with his reserved and solitary mode of life, he should have embarked in such a gregarious enterprise is not very clear; but the election of General Harrison had deprived him of a small government office—it seem
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