The record of his travels and impressions may be found in his
_English Note-Books_ and in his _French and Italian Note-Books_. _Our Old
Home_, a volume based on his _English Note-Books_, is a more finished
account of his thoughts and experiences in England.
In 1860 he returned quietly to his Concord home. His health was failing,
but he promised to write for the _Atlantic Monthly_ another romance, called
_The Dolliver Romance_. This, however, was never finished, and _The Marble
Faun_ remains the last of his great romances. His health continued to fail,
and in May, 1864, Pierce, thinking that a trip might prove beneficial,
started with him on a journey to the White Mountains. Hawthorne retired for
the night at the hotel in Plymouth, New Hampshire, and the next morning
Pierce found that Hawthorne's wish of dying unawares in his sleep had been
gratified. He had passed away before the completion of his fifty-ninth
year. He was buried underneath the pines in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery at
Concord. His classmate, Longfellow, wrote:--
"There in seclusion and remote from men,
The wizard hand lies cold."
"TWICE TOLD TALES" AND "MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE.
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