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Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife (1884), I, 142.

Robert Cantwell, Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American Years (1948), p. 138. Mr. Cantwell's error stems, I assume, from his supposition that the income derived from the writings for the 1837 Token was typical.

Bertha Faust, Hawthorne's Contemporaneous Reputation (1939), p. 15.

Moncure Conway, Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1890), p. 42.

The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, ed. (1883), I, 10.

Goodrich mentions the tale adversely in his letter acknowledging his receipt and reading of the Provincial Tales manuscript (Hawthorne and His Wife, I, 131-132).

See my forthcoming article in Nineteenth-Century Fiction on the revision of the tale.

Joseph T. Buckingham, editor and publisher of the New England Magazine, agreed to publish the project serially in his magazine. Accordingly, the first two installments of The Story Teller appeared in the November and December, 1834 issues of the magazine. But when Buckingham gave up the editorship at the end of 1834, the new editors, Samuel G. Howe and John O. Sargent (as well as Park Benjamin, who carried editorial weight even before he acceded to the editorship titularly in March, 1835), decided that the work should be broken up into unrelated fragments. It seems Hawthorne could do nothing about the change in plans.