Horatio Bridge: 2 books

Nathaniel Hawthorne was Horatio Bridge’s classmate at Bowdoin College as well as his editor. Bridge’s appreciation of his work convinced Hawthorne to be an author. Based on a series of Harper’s articles, and enlivened by letters from Hawthorne’s wife Sophia, here are Bridge’s anecdote-packed recollections of Hawthorne’s boyhood, struggles, successes, and later years.

Horatio Bridge, who has compiled this volume of reminiscences chiefly from Hawthorne's correspondence with himself and wife, is a retired Paymaster-General in the United States Navy. Mr. Bridge does not strictly follow the rules of chronology in his pages, and makes no attempt at a biographical sketch...