Book Review: "Nathaniel Hawthorne Meets Swiss Immigrants: A Research Note"

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Swiss American Historical Society, book review

Abstract

Walter L. Robbins , "Nathaniel Hawthorne Meets W Immigrants: A Research Note."

Randall Stewart reports in his work Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Biography (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948), p . 42, that Hawthorne had undertaken during the "solitary years" 1825 to 1837 various journeys, in 1833 or 1834 possibly to Niagara and Detroit. He published his apparently firsthand descriptions in the New England Magazine Volume XI (December 1835), 398-409, which contains a report entitled "The Canal-Boat." In that sketch Hawthorne tells of his encounter with a Swiss immigrant group. It is quoted here after the following edition: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, Donald Crowley, Fredson Bowers and John Manning, eds., Centenary edition, X (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1974), 430- 432.

Recommended Citation

(1977) "Book Review: "Nathaniel Hawthorne Meets Swiss Immigrants: A Research Note"," Swiss American Historical Society Newsletter: Vol. 13: Iss. 1, Article 10.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/sahs_newsletter/vol13/iss1/10