Abstract
N THE CuSTOM-HousE Hawthorne announces that he wishes to place himself in his true position as editor, or very little more for the story of The Scarlet Letter.' He claims to have discovered a manuscript in the Custom House which gives the outline of the tale which is to follow. By so placing The Scarlet Letter in the tradition of the Gothic romance, which often used a discovered manuscript as basis, he begs for his reader's acceptance of the tale as authentic and for latitude to develop the outline of Surveyor Pue's manuscript. While his role as historian has received attention in recent criticism of The Scarlet Letter,2 Hawthorne's determined pose as editor has, not been taken seriously, perhaps because it is so obviously an imposture.3 The pervasiveness, m;oreover, of a similar
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