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 letter to Hillard; finishes "Scarlet Letter"; fame established; characteristics of his genius; stoicism; unsympathetic as an artist; farewell to Salem; family life in Berkshire; productive period; "House of the Seven Gables" written and published; power of realistic detail; marvelous art; no sympathy with reform; fatalistic trait; Rose born; delight in his children; his "spiritual sense of life"; narrow intellectual interests; temporary residence in West Newton; "Blithedale Romance" written; purchases "The Wayside"; objects to writing Pierce's "Life"; friendship for Pierce; an unsparing critic; accepts Liverpool consulate; life at Liverpool; notable official action; his opinion of philanthropy; kindly received in England; good after-dinner speaker; alien in England; excursions; competence secured; resigns consulate; life in Italy; its influence; begins "Marble Faun"; describes Villa Montaüto; Una's illness; leaves Rome and finishes "Marble Faun"; height of his literary power; sensitive temperament; creative genius; defective technique; his fullest expression; returns to Concord; health fails; despairs of the Union; mental attitude in politics; last days;

Works. Alice Doane's Appeal; Ambitious Guest, The; American Note-Books; Ancestral Footstep, The; Artist of the Beautiful, The; Bald Eagle; Bells; Bell's Biography, A; Biographical stories, note; Birthmark, The; Buds and Bird Voices; Canterbury Pilgrims, The; Celestial Railroad, The, note; Chiefly about War Matters; Chippings with a Chisel; Christmas Banquet, The; Cilley, Jonathan; Custom House, The; David Swan; Devil in Manuscript, The; Diary, First, authenticity questioned, note; Dr. Grimshawe's Secret; Dolliver Romance, The; Dr. Heidegger's Experiment; Downer's Banner, The; Drowne's Wooden Image; Duston Family, The; Earth's Holocaust; Edward Fane's Rosebud; Edward Randolph's Portrait; Egotism, or the Bosom Serpent; Endicott and the Red Cross; Ethan Brand; Fancy's Show Box; Famous Old People; Fanshawe, note; Fessenden, Thomas Green; Fire Worship; Footprints on the Sea-Shore; Gentle Boy, The, note; Grandfather's Chair; Graves and Goblins; Gray Champion, The; Great Carbuncle, The; Great Stone Face, The; Hall of Fantasy, The; Haunted Mind, The; Haunted Quack, The; Hollow of the Three Hills, The; House of the Seven Gables, The; Howe's Masquerade; Intelligence Office, The; John