...of July, 1804, the descendant of an English Puritan who emigrated to America in 1630; a figure which "invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present," says Hawthorne, " to my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember." In Salem, the small New...

...has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition ivith a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish...phase of the town. I seem to have a stronger claim to i residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sablecloaked and steeple-crowned progenitor, —...

...the stock, need they consider it desirable to know. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family...claim in reference to the present phase of the town. 1 seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sabled-cloaked...

...him Hawthorne says, in the chapter on the Salem Custom-House prefixed to " The Scarlet Letter:" — " The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family...imagination as far back as I can remember. It still hauuts me, and induces a sort of homefeeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to...

...call n-nicmbcr. It mill haunts inc. muí induce« n »ort of hoiucfceling with tho ¡last, which 1 scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town. I seem to have a «trouver claim to residence here on account of I hi» grave, bearded, ьаЫс-cloakcd, and >tcc|)lc-crowno<l...

...the stock, need they consider it desirable to know. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family...claim in reference to the present phase of the town. l seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sabled-cloaked...

...the stock, need they consider it desirable to know. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family...claim in reference to the present phase of the town. 1 seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sabled-cloaked...

...the stock, need they consider it desirable to know. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family...claim in reference to the present phase of the town. 1 seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sabled-cloaked...

...the stock, need they consider it desirable to know. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family...remember. It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home. feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town....

...Boston, and Dedham. " The figure of that first ancestor," Hawthorne wrote in " The Custom House," " invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky...my boyish imagination as far back as I can remember ; " so that it is by no means idle to reckon the history of his own family as among the important elements...