American notebook : primarily Concord, Salem, Boston and Lenox : autograph manuscript, 1841-1852.

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American notebook : primarily Concord, Salem, Boston and Lenox : autograph manuscript, 1841-1852.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/455386352

Describing excursions and travels. Recording observations and ideas for future stories, including The Scarlet Letter, which he records on p. 86: "the life of a woman, who, by the old colony law, was condemned always to wear the letter A, sewed on her garment, in token of her having committed adultery."

1 item (ca. 173 p.), bound ; 20.9 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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