...new emotion he blesses them still because they made and kept him fit for the transformation: . . . Here I sit in my old accustomed chamber, where I used...sit in days gone by. . . . Here I have written many tales—many that have been burned to ashes, many that doubtless deserved the same fate. This claims...

...was in the southwest corner of the third story. In a letter of October 4, 1840, he speaks of it thus: "Here I sit in my old accustomed chamber where I used...sit in days gone by. Here I have written many tales. . . . Should I have a biographer he ought to make great mention of this chamber in my memoirs, because...

...returned to Salem and for twelve years remained in practical seclusion. In 1840 he wrote in his Note-Book: "Here I have written many tales — many that have...ashes, many that doubtless deserved the same fate. . . . Here I have been glad and hopeful, and here I have been despondent. And here I sat a long, long...

...such occasion, "where he used to sit in years gone by, before his soul became acquainted with thine. Here I have written many tales, — many that have...— many that doubtless deserved the same fate. This deserves to be called a haunted chamber, for thousands upon thousands of visions have appeared to me...

...Poet." The Hawthorne passage is as follows: Salem, Oct. 4th. Union Street (Family Mansion).— .... Here I sit in my old accustomed chamber, where I used...sit in days gone by. ... Here I have written many tales,—many that have been burned to ashes, many that doubtless deserved the same fate. This claims...

...at the Boston Custom House, he wrote to his "Dove" Sophia Peabody in a similar vein: "This deserves to be called a haunted chamber; for thousands upon...some few of them have become visible to the world. . . . [S]o much of my lonely youth was wasted here; and here my mind and character were formed."6 Both...

...accustomed chamber, where he used to sit in years gone by, before his soul became acquainted with thine. Here I have written many tales — many that have...— many that doubtless deserved the same fate. This deserves to be called a haunted chamber; for thousands upon thousands of visions have appeared to me...

...days gone by ... Here I have written many tales— many that have been burned to ashes, many that have doubtless deserved the same fate. This claims to be...some few of them have become visible to the world . . . And sometimes it seems to me as if I were already in the grave, with only life enough to be chilled...

...himself, somehow, from the impression of unreality, of ghostliness, that usually visited him. One day in 1840 he wrote: Here I sit in my old accustomed...tales— many that have been burned to ashes, many that have doubtless deserved the same fate. This claims to be called a haunted chamber, for thousands upon...

...as follows "Here 1 sit in my old accustomed chamber. where 1 used to sit in days gone by ... Here 1 have written many tales - many that have been burned to ashes. many that have doubtless deserved the same fate This claims to be called a haunted chamber. for thousands upon...