"At the Boston tavern, the Old Province House, once headquarters of the royal governors, the proprietor tells a visitor this legend: When Governor Howe gave an entertainment, the night before the patriots' victory in the siege of Boston, the guests were costumed as figures of history and fiction, with comic individuals in rags representing Washington and his generals. Late in the evening, a funeral march was heard, and a solemn procession of ancient figures passed through the ballroom. Colonel Joliffe, an aged patriot detained during the siege, was present with his granddaughter, and identified the apparitions as early Puritan governors, "summoned to form the funeral procession of royal authority in New England." According to legend, the procession reappears on each anniversary of the occasion." -- <i>The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature</i>
First published (as by "the author of Twice-Told Tales") in The Democratic Review, May 1838.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1842 | Twice-Told Tales | James Munroe | Collection | |20 | |
| 1897 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Maynard, Merrill, & Co. | Collection | |4 |
| 1907 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 272 |
| 1937 |
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The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne | Modern Library | Omnibus | 952 |
| 1938 | Strange Stories | Longmans, Green and Co. | Anthology | 48 | |
| 1965 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Airmont Books | Collection | 141|141.2 |
| August 1977 |
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Histoires de doubles | Presses Pocket | Anthology | 267 |
| 1980 |
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Histoires de doubles | France Loisirs | Anthology | 267 |
| 1982 |
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Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | 626 |
| 1984 |
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Himera: Proză fantastică americană, Vol. 1 | Editura Minerva | Anthology | 142 |
| October 1989 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Reader's Digest | Collection | 151 |
| February 1996 |
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La grande anthologie du fantastique : 1 | Omnibus (France) | Omnibus | 965 |
| 2001 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Modern Library | Collection | 184 |
| October 2004 | Twice-Told Tales | Project Gutenberg | Collection | 233 | |
| 2007 | Tales and Sketches | The Library of America | Omnibus | |626 | |
| October 2008 | The Snow-Image and Other Stories of the Supernatural | Tartarus Press | Collection | 162 | |
| August 2010 |
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Twice-Told Tales | Gray Rabbit Publications | Collection | 153 |