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ILLUSTRATIONS (not available to this edition) NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE (From a crayon drawing by Samuel Rowse) BIRTHPLACE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE AT SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS HERMAN MELVILLE JAMES T. FIELDS THE WAYSIDE (Showing Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife) EDWIN P. WHIPPLE JAMES T. FIELDS, NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, AND WILLIAM D. TICKNOR RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES ROBERT BROWNING FRANCIS BANNOCH REV. WILLIAM HENRY CHANNING, 1855 MARIA MITCHELL WILLIAM WETMORE STORY PENCIL SKETCHES IN ITALY, BY MRS. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE THE MARBLE FAUN HIRAM POWERS