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This text is an appendix to volume 12 of a 13-volume set of the complete works of Nathaniel Hawthorne entitled:

The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, with Introductory Notes by George Parsons Lathrop and illustrated with Etchings by Blum, Church, Dielman, Gifford, Shirlaw, and Turner in Thirteen Volumes, Volume XII.

Tales, Sketches, and other Papers by Nathaniel Hawthorne with a Biographical Sketch by George Parsons Lathrop.

BOSTON HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1883.

Some illustrations of this work have been moved from the original sequence to enable the contents to continue without interruption. The original page numbering has been retained. Punctuation inconsistencies have been silently corrected. A list of other corrections made can be found at the end of the book.