Show WHEN HAWTHORNE WAS SAD all an Ina leit into the early career of the famous american Itoman elst in the ferst decade after hawthorne left college he formed several plans of life one 0 of f which was that of entering hia his uncle manninga Mann inRa counting house in one of hia hi lettera letters to roe me he spoke of this aa as a nettled settled purpose but bis hill repugnance to commercial life was ouch such that the plan wit was S ultimately abandoned and he relapsed into the suite of partial inaction which BO so often ro alv tf front unsettled plans plan it is well known that soon after graduating in he prepared for the press a little volume of titles entitled seven tales of my aly yative land the publisher Isber who engaged to bring out the book was so dilatory that at last hawthorne becoming impatient and dissatisfied with the excuse excuses given peremptorily demanded the return of the manuscript the publisher aroused to a it sense of his duty and ashamed of his broken promises apologized and offered to proceed with the work at once but hawthorne thorne was inexorable and though us he wrote me at the time he was wits conscious of having been too harsh in his censures he would not re recede cesle and he burned the manuscript in a mood wood half halt savage half despairing sp jul ata A I 1 expressed to him perhaps too strongly my regret for this proceeding he did not when fanshawe Ian hawe waa was published isheLL confide tome to me the fact hearing though of the publication I 1 procured a copy and subsequently mentioned it to hawthorne he ile had meantime become dissatisfied with the book and he called la in and destroyed all the copies be he could reach at his request I 1 bit burned arned my copy and we never alluded to fanshawe afterward it was at this time tinie I 1 think that be he became utterly dis heartened and though conscious of possessing more than ordinary literary talent he almost abandoned all expectation of success ns as an atut author bor in one of his letters to me ine after relating gome some of his disappointments he compared blin himself self to drifting belp helplessly lessly toward a ci cataract and closed with these despairing words im A doomed man and over I 1 must go happily the despondent mood was not permanent and he continued to write though to frequent disappointments disappointment he ile WIM wast contributor for a it little w while bile to it 11 published I 1 believe tn in new york the compensation was small and even that the publisher pro felsa cased his hia to pay so 80 hawthorne slopped stopped his bis contributions and withdrew at the parting a characteristic incident occur occurred ml the begged for a iaia ss of manuscript tn III ahls pom eJon as its yet et unpublished published 1 aishe 1 anil and it wan scornfully be bestowed cd thus wrote IN hawthorne thorne has tg this man irian who would be considered n taken from a penal penniless leFa writer matet material ial better his 1113 own brain can supply and be he cloned with a it bitter male mailo diction upon the grasping editor he ile had the experience of being rno more than once deceived by those who professed tobaie to have the power and wish vish to befriend him A young man with some means aud greater aspirations pi rations commenced the publication of a literary newspaper in boston and nd offered hawthorne the position of coeditor another person backed by a rich father fathers supplanted hawthorne who waa was civilly bowed out and the newspaper after a brief and sickly life expired expire cL in the hawthorne biography there tip appeared red several old and carelessly written bettera of my own answers to nome some of hawthorner Haw Ilaw thomes that were long bince since destroyed at his request these lettra letters I 1 should hardly have reproduced except for tho purpose of showing that hawthorne was at times thries quite despairing sp and in new beci of all the en encouragement his friends could give If horatio oratio bridge lu in Ilar harpers pers |