NMLP P-022200 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne · Ticknor, Reed & Fields (Boston) · 1850

The most cited first-printing reading is 'reduplicate' for 'repudiate' at page 21, line 20; scholars note this arose from two settings of the gathering containing page 21, so it is best described as a first-printing textual reading rather than an absolute point of issue

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-022200 for "The Scarlet Letter: A Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-022200, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).