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Images from Bowdoin College

The Bowdoin College Library has kindly allowed us to post images of some of the items from their Nathaniel Hawthorne collection on our Website which they exhibited in July 2008 at the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society meeting at Bowdoin. These images include a variety of documents relating to Hawthorne’s student days at Bowdoin  as well as  the first page of Fanshawe  and the ivory letter opener which Hawthorne used when he served as surveyor at the Salem Customs House.

Hawthorne in the New Yorker

Hawthorne has made an appearance of sorts in two issues of the New Yorker recently. The June 25, 2007 issue includes a poem by Lawrence Raab entitled “Hawthorne on His Way Home,” and the January 14, 2008 issue includes a short story by E. L. Doctorow entitled “Wakefield” which is a contemporary version of Hawthorne’s story by the same name.

Paintings by Sophia Peabody

The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, has acquired two paintings by Sophia Peabody and has allowed us to post them on our website along with one other in their collection of four paintings by Sophia Peabody.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

WBUR special on Nathaniel Hawthorne for his 200th birthday (photo tour, interview with Phillip McFarland, author of Hawthorne in Concord, and a discussion on why Hawthorne's works are relevant in today's world)

Events at the House of the Seven Gables, Salem MA.

"Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne" by Alison Hawthorne Deming.
In her poem from Science and Other Poems, poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming reflects upon her great-great grandfather's life and personality. (special thanks to Alison Hawthorne Deming for granting permission to post this poem)