Note 2 — Chapter I · A PORT OF VANISHED FLEETS
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Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, chose to insert a “w” in the family name of Hathorne borne by his father.
“The four years had lapsed quietly and quickly by, and Hawthorne, who now adopted the fanciful spelling of his name after his personal whim, was man grown.” (Nathaniel Hawthorne, by George E. Woodberry, in American Men of Letters Series.)