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Where did Nathaniel Hawthorne live while writing stories collected in Mosses from an Old Manse?
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's ancestors in Salem, Massachusetts, were Puritans named Hathorne. He added a w to his name when he began writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote the stories collected in Mosses from an Old Manse while living at the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts.12
The Old Manse was the ancestral home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Hawthorne and his wife, Sophia Peabody, rented the house for three years beginning in 1842. During this period, Hawthorne enjoyed the company of his Transcendentalist neighbors, though he remained somewhat detached from their philosophical movement. He later documented his time at the residence in the essay titled "The Old Manse".12