First edition copy of The Scarlet Letter Signed by Hawthorne

Custom House in Salem Where Hawthorne worked	"The pavement round about the above-described edifice--which we may as well name at once as the Custom-House of the port-- has grass enough growing in its chinks to show that it has not, of late days, been worn by any multitudinous resort of business."

King's Chapel Graveyard Boston, Ma.	"...it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel."

Governor John Winthrop's Grave King's Chapel Graveyard	"I have been watching at a death-bed," answered Hester Prynne "at Governor Winthrop's death-bed, and have taken his measure for a robe, and am now going homeward to my dwelling."

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