Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches - A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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OUR OLD HOME
A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne To Franklin Pierce, As a Slight Memorial of a College Friendship, prolonged through Manhood, and retaining all its Vitality in our Autumnal Years, This Volume is inscribed by NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. TO A FRIEND. I have not asked your consent, my dear General, to the foregoing inscription, because it would have been no inconsiderable disappointment to me had you withheld it; for I have long desired to connect your name with some book of mine, in commemoration of an early friendship that has grown old between two individuals of widely dissimilar pursuits and fortunes. I only wish that the offering were a worthier one than this |
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