From the book Concord Sketches: Consisting of Twelve Photographs from Original Drawings by May Alcott. Published in Boston by Fields, Osgood & Co. in 1869.

Accompanying caption:
"Here in the old gray house whose front we see,
The gentlest man that kindly nature drew,
New England’s Chaucer, Hawthorne, fitly lived."
-Channing’s Poems of the Heart.

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