Descriptive letterpress on recto of one of the facsimiles.
"Originally prepared as a doctoral dissertation at Yale university [1930]" --Pref., p. ix.
Includes the passages omitted in the edition edited by Mrs. Hawthorne and published under title: Passages from the American note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
"Published on the foundation established im memory of Philip Hamilton McMillan of the class of 1894, Yale college." --p.[iii]
