5/20/2023 0 Comments The scarlet letter book pages![]() ![]() The Natick society's board voted unanimously to auction the Hawthorne proof "strictly because it's outside our field of collection" as an institution devoted to Natick's history, said Anne Schaller, who directs the society's museum. Until the discovery of this copy, the sole text source for the novel was the first printing. He later told the publisher's widow that "I put it up the chimney," according to Christie's. ![]() In a letter to the publisher long after the book's 1850 publication, Hawthorne told of the original copy's demise. Hawthorne's original manuscript, used as a printer's copy, is known to have been burned by the author after it was returned by the publisher. No other proof pages of any of Hawthorne's novels or stories are known to have survived, according to Chris Coover, senior specialist in rare books and manuscripts at Christie's. ![]()
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