Ralph Waldo Emerson owned a Concord home nicknamed this; Hawthorne rented it & wrote some "Mosses from" it
He called on Hawthorne in Salem, returned to Boston with an 
unfinished ... introduction and some critics' objections to the novel's "scandalous" 
subject,... [DOC] [TLE] Concord's Old Manse is at crossroads of political, literary history