Hawthorne, N: Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe and Septimius Felto

Excerpt from The Dolliver Romance, Fanshawe and Septimius Felton: With an Appendix Containing the Ancestral FootstepThe manuscript of the unfinished Dolliver Ro~ mance lay upon his coffin during the funeral ser vices at Concord, but, contrary to the impression some times entertained on this point, was not buried with him. It is preserved in the Concord Public Library. The first chapter was published in the Atlantic as an isolated portion, soon after his death; and subse quently the second chapter, which he had been unable to revise, appeared in the same periodical. Between this and the third fragment there is a gap, for bridg ing which no material was found among his papers; but, after hesitating for several years Mrs. Hawthorne copied and placed in the publishers hands that final portion, which, with the two parts previously printed, constitutes the whole of what Hawthorne had put into tangible form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.