Perhaps his first collection of stories, "Twice-Told Tales", was printed in scarlet letters?
The text of the stories in this collection is that established by the 
Centenary ..... More significantly, perhaps, Hawthorne appears to have learned 
the ... the one in the first of his actually published collections, the Twice-told Tales 
of 1837,... [DOC] [TLE] Try Hawthorne for Halloween, .