Yes, he had been a happy man; one who had every qualification for a rich and satisfactory life, and was able to make such a life out of whatever material offered. He might not have been willing to sound the joy-bell for himself, but the world has rung it because of his birth. As for his death, it is better not to close our sketch with any glimpse of that, because, in virtue of his spirit's survival among those who read and think, he still lives. G. P. L. NEW YORK, _May_ 20, 1883. FOOTNOTES: [1] _A Study of Hawthorne_, III., 67-69. [2] _Yesterdays With Authors_, p. 113. [3] Both his friends, George William Curtis and George S. Hillard, in writing about him, have made the mistake of assigning to him black or dark eyes; an error perhaps due to the depth of shadowed cavity in which they were seen under the high and massive forehead. [4] _Hawthorne and his friends: Harper's Magazine_, vol. 63 (July, 1881). [5] Vol. 45 (July, 1837), p. 59. [6] _Transcendentalism in New England._ [7] She died, unmarried, in September, 1877. [8] The allusion to a baby-boy is confusing, because Mr. Julian Hawthorne was not born at Concord, and when the family returned thither to occupy The Wayside, he was about six years old. [9] This is the first intimation of the story of _Septimius Felton_, so far as local setting is concerned. The scenery of that romance was obviously taken from The Wayside and its hill. [10] _French and Italian Note-Books_, May 30, 1858. A contributor to _Appletons' Journal_, writing in 1875, describes a surviving specimen of the old contrivances which then gave Salem its water-supply. "The presumption is that a description of this particular one answers for Hawthorne's pump, seeing that they were all alike. It is large enough for a mausoleum and looks not unlike one, made of slabs of dingy stone, like stained, gray gravestones set up on one end, in a square at the foundation, but all inclining inward at the top, where they are kept in position by a band of iron. A decaying segment of log appears, in which the pump-handle works in vain, now, however, since, being long out of use, it has no connection with the water below; on the front side are two circular holes, like a pair of great eyes, made for the insertion of the spouts; and, finally, a long-handled iron dish, like a saucepan or warming-pan on a smaller scale, is attached by an iron chain to the stone, by way of drinking-vessel. Altogether, though it may not strike an old Salem resident in that way, it seems to the stranger a very unique, antiquated, and remarkable structure." [11] _Atlantic Monthly_, September, 1870, vol. 26, p. 257. [12] _Papyrus Leaves_, pp. 261, 262. [13] _A Study of Hawthorne_: Chapter, xi., 291, 292. Corrections The first line indicates the original, the second the correction. p. 528: "and Buchanan, the nminister" "and Buchanan, then minister" p. 529: "a book shall he honored" "a book shall be honored"