Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 240

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
SIGNED AT THE CUSTOM HOUSE IN SALEM HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Nath. Hawthorne / Surveyor," as Surveyor of the Port of Salem, in purple ink, customs declaration for the Schooner Hemisphere arriving from Maitland [Canadian Port?]. 7x8 1/2 inches; folds, remnants of prior mounting verso. Salem, 13 April 1848
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The preface of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is entitled "The Custom-House"; in it, the narrator is introduced as an official employed at the Custom House in Salem.