![]() He was the college classmate of another famous writer. Pierce’s presence fulfilled a passage in Hawthorne’s novel The Blithedale Romance: “Happy the man that has such a friend beside him, when he comes to die!” 2. The former president placed his hand upon Hawthorne’s forehead and found that he was dead. ![]() ![]() During the night, Pierce awoke to check on his friend in the adjoining room. On the evening of May 18 inside the Pemigewasset House hotel in Plymouth, New Hampshire, Hawthorne retired early after a dinner of toast and tea. With the author’s health failing in the spring of 1864 as a likely result of gastrointestinal cancer, Hawthorne’s old college friend, former president Franklin Pierce traveled with him to New Hampshire’s White Mountains with the hope that the region’s rarified air could be an elixir. A former president of the United States discovered Hawthorne dead. ![]()
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