Nathaniel Hawthorne; Horatio Bridge

Hawthorne's Loyalty in Century Magazine January 1888

Periodical, 1888. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good. One leaf (front and back) from the January 1888 printing of Century Magazine. This is pages 489 and 490. The article is titled "Hawthorne's Loyalty" and is written by Horatio Bridge who was a friend and college classmate of Hawthorne's. The point of the article is to refute any implication that Hawthorne was a Southern sympathiser during the Civil War. According to the article, a letter Hawthorne wrote had just been auctioned and the letter cast doubt on Hawthorne's loyalty to the North. Bridge's article includes five excerpts from letters Hawthorne wrote Bridge during the war and seems to effectively show Hawthorne was indeed loyal to the North (although he seems to have wanted some sort of seccession for the most Southern states if Virginia and the other northerly Southern states could be kept in the Union). No foxing to page. No fading. Text very easy to read. Some small loss to the paper, but it is at the margin and does not affect the text block. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. [Item #45795]

Price: $20.00