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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

novelist, was born July 4, 1804, in Salem, Mass.

During 1838-41 he held a position in the Boston custom house, was next a member of the Brook Farm association, and after 1843 a resident at Concord, Mass., from time to time until his death, though within that period he was surveyor of the port of Salem, 1846-50, and from 1853 to 1857 consul at Liverpool. He was the author of Fanshawe; Twice-Told Tales; Grandfather's Chair; Mosses from an Old Manse; Famous Old People; Liberty Tree; Biographical Stories for Children; The Scarlet Letter; True Stories; The House of the Seven Gables; A Wonder Book; The Snow Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales; The Blithedale Romance; Tanglewood Tales; The Marble Faun, known in England as Transformation; Our Old Home; Passages from American Note-Books; English Note-Books; French and Italian Note-Books; Septimius Felton; The Dolliver Romance; and Dr. Grimshawe's Secret. He died May 19, 1864, in Plymouth, N. H.

HAWTHORNE, MRS. SOPHIA (PEA- BODY), author, was born in 1810 in Salem, Mass. She was the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and sister of Elizabeth Peabody. Her only publication was Notes in England and Italy. She died Feb. 26, 1871, in London, England.