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Bridge, a classmate and friend of Hawthorne, paid the cost of publication for Twice-Told Tales (without Hawthorne's knowledge); in 1845 Hawthorne edited Bridge's Journal of an African Cruiser. An excellent memoir.
The value of the fragmentary story of this association, as set forth in the following pages, must of necessity lie in those passages in which the subjects speak for themselves.