TOKEN AND ATLANTIC SOUVENIR 1835 LONGFELLOW HAWTHORNE

TOKEN AND ATLANTIC SOUVENIR 1835 LONGFELLOW HAWTHORNE

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Very rare copy of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir 1835. This copy includes works by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bottom part of spine is detached but is there. A little writing inside. Page tanning and light yellow spotting throughout. A few pages are detached, mostly at the back. There are some pages missing-the book starts on page 9-missing also are 83-86--315-318--363-370. The Youth of Mary Stuart by Longfellow and The Haunted Mind and The Mermaid; A Reverie by Hawthorne are complete.

The Token and Atlantic Souvenir

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The Token (1829-1842) was an annual, illustrated gift book, containing stories, poems and other light and entertaining reading. In 1833, it became The Token and Atlantic Souvenir.

History

The annual was chiefly edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich.

In 1833 The Token merged with Souvenir to become The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, which continued until 1842.

Hawthorne mailed stories to Griswold beginning in the spring of 1829. Goodrich claims he sought Hawthorne's work after reading an anonymous work of his. The Token included several of Hawthorne's notable early works. All were published without his name but proved popular. It wasn't until 1837 that Hawthorne's friend Horatio Bridge revealed him as the author in a review of that year's The Token published in the Boston Post. As Bridge wrote: "It is a singular fact that, of the few American writers by profession, one of the very best is a gentleman whose name has never yet been made public, though his writings are extensively and favorably known.