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The Note-Books and Correspondence of Nathaniel Hawthorne
24 August
like a vast basin filled with golden sunshine as with wine
August 24th. -- In the afternoons, nowadays, this valley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled with golden sunshine as with wine.
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The text is from:
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Passages From the American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volumes 1 and 2
(London: Smith, Elder and Co. 1868)
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Passages From the French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volumes 1 and 2
(London: Strahan & Co. 1871)
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Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Chicago: The Society of the Dofobs 1907)
- Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny
(S.H Wakeman)
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