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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ng willbe, distinguishable and distinguished.Hawthorne came to Lenox in 1850, andremained there only until the autumn of 1851, and there is hardly anything ofthe charm of age, or long continuancein place, to give his presence there itsstill abiding influence. But he livedthere; there wrote The House ofthe Seven Gables, and there impartedto the place an enduring interest thathas something of the charm peculiar tohimself. Fredrika Bremer, writing fromthe New World, and from Lenox at thetime when the Hawthornes were there,speaks of the prospect from the smalldwelling. Immediately in front ofHawthornes house lies one of thosesmall, clear lakes, with its sombre mar-gin of forest which characterize thisdistrict, and Hawthorne seems greatlyto enjoy the view of it and the wild-ly wooded country. She adds, aftersj^encling an evening at the house :His amiable wife is inexpressibly hap-py to see him so happy here. A smile, aword, conveys more to her than longspeeches from other people. She reads
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The Episcopal Church. 426 LENOX his very soul,—and he is the best ofhusbands. It was about 1833 that Mrs. Kemblebrought herself and her fame to theBerkshires, and became very diiectlyassociated with Lenox in the minds of the hills rise one above another to thehorizon, where they scoop the sky witha broken, irregular outline, that theeye dweUs on vnXh ever new deUght, asits colors glow and vaiy with the as-cending or descending sunhght and all

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