Literature Related to the Old Manse: Introduction

The Old Manse in Concord (photography by Terri Whitney)

In the summer of 1842 when Hawthorne first moved to The Old Manse with his bride, he did not do any writing. In the fall, however, he returned to magazine writing, publishing tales and sketches in the Democratic Review and "Little Daffydowndilly" in the Boys' and Girls' Magazine. In 1845 a second edition of Twice-told Tales was published, and in that same year Journal of an African Cruise appeared, a travel book by Horatio Bridge that was edited by Hawthorne. Mosses from an Old Manse was first published as a two volume set in 1846; it includes many of the short stories and essays written by Hawthorne in the second floor study of The Old Manse.

Excerpts related to The Old Manse from The American Notebooks by Nathaniel Hawthorne, edited by Sophia Hawthorne, 1868, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 (volume IX of the 13-volume Riverside Edition of the Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne).
- August 5, 1842; Old Manse in Concord
- August 8, 1842;Description of The Old Manse
- August 9, 1842; Description of orchard at The Old Manse
- August 10, 1842; Gardening at The Old Manse
- Friday March 31, 1843; Spring at The Old Manse
Excerpt from Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Horatio Bridge, 1893, Chapter X in which Bridge discusses his visits to the Hawthornes at The Old Manse and Hawthorne's editing of Bridge's work, Journal of an African Cruiser
Full text of "Little Daffydowndilly"
Full text of "The Old Manse" from Mosses from an Old Manse
Full text of "Hawthorne and His Mosses" - Review of Mosses from an Old Manseby Herman Melville.

Hawthorne at Salem

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Literature Related to the Old Manse: Introduction