Show EXISTED ONLY IN FANCY hawthorne s house of the seven gables a myth A cousin ot of the late nathaniel haw thorne who lives in salem says there never was a house ot of the seven gables in that town he tells the boston journal that hawthorne came down to visit me shortly before his death and ke we rambled about the old haunts ot of his early days I 1 was par nicular to ask him to point out it if he could the famous house of the seven gables bebau e at that time the con troverse tro versy exis existed teci in some degree there never was any was his immediate reply to me I 1 never had any particular house in my mind when I 1 wrote the story it was just a fancy of my own |