INTRODUCTORY NOTE AFTER the publication of The Scarlet Letter, the Hawthornes moved from Satem to Lenox, where they stayed for a year and a half, the cottage which they occupied being familiarly called the Red House. The house was burned in 1890, but by that time had become a spot to which literary pilgrimages were made. The scene was thus described by a Stockbridge paper not long after the fire - Drive along a lonely winding road through a homely New England district several hundred yards west of the pretentious mansions of Stockbridge, pass through a breezy open patch of pines, and one comes to a characteristic hillside New England orchard, the branches of whose trees just now are bright with ripening red apples. On the hill-slope in the middle of the orchard and overlooking the famous Stockbridge Bowl - a round deep tarn among the hills - are the brick cellar walls and brick underpinning of what was a very humble dwelling - the Hawthorne Cottage. About the ruins is a quiet, modest,...