Carte de visite photograph. (4 1/4"x 2 1 /2").  Published  bty  E. & H.T. Anthony from Brady’s negative. Some light mottling in background, o/w Fine condition, clarity and contrast. 
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64). Although his friends included a number of noted transcendentalists--such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Bronson Alcott--Nathaniel Hawthorne's works show little of the optimism and self-confidence that marked transcendentalism. Instead, he preferred themes drawn more from a Puritan preoccupation with guilt and the natural depravity of humans.