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- 7 Jul. 1851 (Creation)
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4 ff.
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Newport, Rhode Island. - Success of The Scarlet Letter etc in England; Hawthorne has enhanced unpoetic life of New England with a romance of its past; Hawthorne's reclusive habits; encloses an autograph [no longer present]; is sending Hawthorne's last volume, and a pamphlet of his own, via Chapman in the Strand. Report of poor American display at the Great Exhibition will be a timely blow to national vanity, but it does demonstrate America's lack of an underclass 'to produce luxuries for others, while they starve themselves'; hopes the same can be said in 1951 or 2051. Would like to revisit London. Has read Mrs Browning's noble new poem [Casa Guidi Windows] and Companions of My Solitude [by Arthur Helps]. Postscript: letters should always be addressed to Cambridge, Mass.
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- Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908) author, social critic, and professor of art (Subject)
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864) author (Subject)
- Chapman & Hall (publishers) (Subject)
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861), poet (Subject)
- Helps, Sir Arthur (1813-1875) Knight, author, clerk of the Privy Council (Subject)