The Dolliver Romance

The manuscript of the unfinished DOLLIVER ROMANCE lay upon his coffin during the funeral services at Concord, but, contrary to the impression sometimes entertained on this point, was not buried with him. It is preserved in the Concord Public Library. The first chapter was published in the ATLANTIC as an isolated portion, soon after his death; and subsequently the second chapter, which he had been unable to revise, appeared in the same periodical. . . . Beginning with the idea of producing an English romance, fragments of which remain to us in "The Ancestral Footstep," and the incomplete work known as DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE'S SECRET, he replaced these by another design, of which SEPTIMIUS FELTON represents the partial execution. But that elaborate study yielded, in its turn, to THE DOLLIVER ROMANCE.