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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 18 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3. You can also browse the collection for Nathaniel Hawthorne or search for Nathaniel Hawthorne in all documents.

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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 30: addresses before colleges and lyceums.—active interest in reforms.—friendships.—personal life.—1845-1850. (search)
, July 17: The offices in Massachusetts have all gone most rigorously according to party service and party caste. Even Hawthorne, who never attended a political meeting or wrote a political article, has been ejected from his small retreat in the San he was in Boston. It was not converted into a public library. Sumner was interested in improving the fortunes of Hawthorne, who was cultivating literature on narrow means, and in 1846 wrote to Mr. Bancroft, then Secretary of the Navy, urging to some federal office. the Salem custom house was all that was then assigned to the author of The Scarlet Letter; Hawthorne, though a Democrat, rejoiced at Sumner's election as senator. Letter to Longfellow, May 18, 1851. Longfellow's Life, pot a note of congratulation that fairly shouted as with a silver trumpet, it was so cordial and strong in joy. Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife. By Julian Hawthorne. Vol. II. p. 12. Sumner came into personal relations with John Quincy Adam