BULLETIN 



ESSEX IITSTITUTE 



Vol. 3. Salem, Mass., March, 1871. No. 3. 



One Dollar a Year iu Advance. 10 Cents a Single Copy. 



Regular Meeting, Monday, March 6, 1871. 

 The President in the chair. Records of preceding 

 meeting read. 



The President read a communication on 



THE ANCESTRY AND BIRTHPLACE OF HAWTHORNE, 



whose writings have imparted a degree of interest to 

 many places in this city, and whose successful career in 

 the held of letters, has added a brilliant star to the glori- 

 ous galaxy of Salem worthies. Here much interest 

 centres ; foreign tourists and others come to visit the 

 scenes which he has so well described in his writings, and 

 to repeople them with those characters which he has so 

 vividly portrayed. This interest is on the increase, each 

 year adding to the number of those who thus show their 

 respect and admiration of the man and his writings. 



It is proposed only to allude briefly to his ancestry in 

 America ; very little is known of the family iu the 

 motherland. Hawthorne, when in England, devoted much 

 time, fruitlessly, to search out the residence of any of 

 them, and wrote to a friend, " of all things, I should like 

 to find a grave-stone in one of these old church-yards 

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