Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete

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Hawthorne Nathaniel. Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete

VOL. I

PREFACE

PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS

A WALK TO BEBBINGTON

ROCK PARK

EATON HALL

CONWAY CASTLE

LEAMINGTON

TO THE LAKES

NEWBY BRIDGE. – FOOT OF WINDERMERE

FURNESS ABBEY

THE LAKES

THE LAUNCH

SMITHELL'S HALL

SHREWSBURY

LONDON

LIVERPOOL

LONDON

SOUTHAMPTON

WORCESTER

LONDON

ALDERSHOTT CAMP

WOOTON

BATTLE ABBEY

HASTINGS

VOL. II

PASSAGES FROM HAWTHORNE'S ENGLISH NOTE-BOOKS

LONDON. – MILTON-CLUB DINNER

REFORM-CLUB DINNER

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

SCOTLAND. – GLASGOW

EDINBURGH. – THE PALACE OF HOLYROOD

HOLYROOD ABBEY

HIGH STREET AND THE GRASS-MARKET

THE CASTLE

MELROSE

DRYBURGH ABBEY,

ABBOTSFORD,

BERWICK,

NEWCASTLE,

YORK,

YORK MINSTER

LIVERPOOL

MANCHESTER,

BORROW,

SOUTHAMPTON

THE CATHEDRAL

STONEHENGE,

GLOUCESTER,

THE CATHEDRAL,

NETLEY ABBEY,

TO BLACKHEATH

THE WINE-VAULTS OF THE LONDON DOCKS

OXFORD

MERTON COLLEGE,

RATCLIFFE LIBRARY

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY

THE TAYLOR INSTITUTE,

HAMPTON COURT,

SOUTHPORT

ORMSKIRK CHURCH

THE CATHEDRAL

TO YORK

BOLTON PRIORY,

YORK

EASTER SUNDAY,

THE MINSTER

MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL,

MR. BROWNE'S FREE LIBRARY,

THE CATHEDRAL,

TO NOTTINGHAM

NOTTINGHAM

NEWSTEAD ABBEY,

MATLOCK,

TO SCOTLAND

GLASGOW

DUMBARTON CASTLE,

INVERANNAN

INVERSNAID

THE TROSACHS' HOTEL. – ARDCHEANOCHROCHAN

LOCH KATRINE,

BRIG OF ALLAN

STIRLING

LINLITHGOW,

EDINBURGH,

MELROSE

ABBOTSFORD,

DURHAM

DURHAM CATHEDRAL

YORK,

OLD TRAFFORD, MANCHESTER

LEAMINGTON

KENILWORTH

LIVERPOOL

LEAMINGTON

LONDON

BRITISH MUSEUM,

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It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private journals being brought before the Public should be made known, since they were originally designed for his own reference only.

There had been a constant and an urgent demand for a life or memoir of Mr. Hawthorne; yet, from the extreme delicacy and difficulty of the subject, the Editor felt obliged to refuse compliance with this demand. Moreover, Mr. Hawthorne had frequently and emphatically expressed the hope that no one would attempt to write his Biography; and the Editor perceived that it would be impossible for any person, outside of his own domestic circle, to succeed in doing it, on account of his extreme reserve. But it was ungracious to do nothing, and therefore the Editor, believing that Mr. Hawthorne himself was alone capable of satisfactorily answering the affectionate call for some sketch of his life, concluded to publish as much as possible of his private records, and even extracts from his private letters, in order to gratify the desire of his friends and of literary artists to become more intimately acquainted with him. The Editor has been severely blamed and wondered at, in some instances, for allowing many things now published to see the light; but it has been a matter both of conscience and courtesy to withhold nothing that could be given up. Many of the journals were doubtless destroyed; for the earliest date found in his American papers was that of 1835.

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As we were taking our leave, the surgeon asked us if we should not like to see the operating-room; and before we could reply he threw open the door, and behold, there was a roll of linen "garments rolled in blood," – and a bloody fragment of a human arm! The surgeon glanced at me, and smiled kindly, but as if pitying my discomposure.

Gervase Elwes, son of Sir Gervase Elwes, Baronet, of Stoke, Suffolk, married Isabella, daughter of Sir Thomas Hervey, Knight, and sister of the first Earl of Bristol. This Gervase died before his father, but left a son, Henry, who succeeded to the Baronetcy. Sir Henry died without issue, and was succeeded by his sister's son, John Maggott Twining, who assumed the name of Elwes. He was the famous miser, and must have had Hawthorne blood in him, through his grandfather, Gervase, whose mother was a Hawthorne. It was to this Gervase that my ancestor, William Hawthorne, devised some land in Massachusetts, "if he would come over, and enjoy it." My ancestor calls him his nephew.

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