In "Hawthorne and His Wife" and "Memories of Hawthorne" both Julian Hawthorne and his sister, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, have given citations from the letters written by Nathaniel Hawthorne to Miss Sophia Peabody during their years of courtship. These excerpts were free and irregular, often, and evidently with specific intent, taken out of order and run together as if for the purpose of illustrating a point or emphasizing a particular phase of character. While the extracts were sufficiently nume-rous for the object desired, and while they gave an agree-able glimpse of an interesting period of Hawthorne's life, they were necessarily too fragmentary, too lacking in con-tinuity, to convey any adequate idea of the simplicity, be-auty, humor and tenderness of the letters, even conside-red in the matter of a literary style.