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TROUBLE IN TANGLEWOOD

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20030608
Author:Joshua Glenn

IN HIS "AMERICAN Notebooks," Nathaniel Hawthorne memorably describes the conversation he had with Herman Melville in Lenox, Mass., one summer night in 1851 when his wife and daughters were away visiting relatives in West Newton. The two writers discoursed "about time and eternity, things of this world and of the next, and books, and publishers, and all possible and impossible matters." Few readers, however, will recall the less exalted events of the following night, when the author of "The Scarlet Letter" discovered his 5-year-old son "in a perfectly soppy state." There had been "a deluge" in ...

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