Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. He wrote several short stories and novels, the most famous of which are The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter. This last one I had to read in school. I didn’t like it at the time; I skipped several chapters and did poorly on the test we were given and the essay I had to write about it. I remember almost nothing about it. It’s one of those books from school days that I’ve been meaning to reread. I might appreciate it now.

As a boy, I knew of Hawthorne for other reasons. I lived in Peabody, Massachusetts. The town was named for George Peabody, a philanthropist who was born there – it was part of Salem at that time. Hawthorne married his sister, Sophia Peabody. In 2010, I went with my sister to Hawthorne and his wife’s temporary home in Concord, Massachusetts (see this photo). It’s very near where the Battle of Lexington and Corcord were fought during the American Reveolution.

Note

As a writer, I chose to write about Nathaniel Hawthorne for this page. Since this album is related to the bicentenial of the American Revolution, I should have written about the Treaty of Paris. It has to do with the end of the revolution. It was the treaty that England signed acknowledging the independence of the new Republic. As a former student of religion, I probably should have written about the Martin Luther stamp. Maybe I’ll add more on both of them later.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

American Revolution Bicentential

1.1

✓

2052

Treaty of Paris 1783

20c (sep 1983)
comm., multicolor

Other

1.2

✓

2045

Three Medals of Honor

20c (jun 1983)
comm., multicolor

Famous Americans

2.1	✓	2046	Babe Ruth	20c (jul 1983) comm., blue
2.2	✓	2047	Nathaniel Hawthorne	20c (jul 1983) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	2044	Scott Joplin	20c (jun 1983) comm., multicolor

Other

2.4	✓	2065	Martin Luther	20c (nov 1983) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	2053	Civil Service	20c (sep 1983) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	2054	Metropolitan Opera	20c (sep 1983) comm., yellow & maroon

Christmas & Holidays

3.3	✓	2063	Niccolini-Cowper Madonna Raphael	20c (oct 1983) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	2064	Santa Claus	20c (oct 1983) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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