Autograph letter signed with initials : Boston, to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1861 Nov. 5.

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Autograph letter signed with initials : Boston, to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1861 Nov. 5.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/456691489

Asking to put Hawthorne's story [possibly Septimius Felton] in his prospectus for 1862; giving his reasons for wanting to market Hawthorne's story; assuring him that he would not do "anything that would in the slightest degree dull the edge of your fine genius."

1 item (2 p.) ; 20.7 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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