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| Whalebone letter opener. Gift: Norman Bassett. | |
Hawthorne used this letter opener while he was surveyor at the Salem Customs House; subse-quently, he gave it to a clerk there, Zachariah Burchmore. The item eventually found its way to the College to commemorate the centennial of Hawthorne’s Class of 1825. all text © Bowdoin College, 2009. |
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| (courtesy of Nathaniel Hawthorne Collection, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine) | |
| citation: http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/images/image.php?name=MMD2785 |