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I
rejoice
you
are
again
at
Salem
,
and
hope
I
may
see
you
not
longe
hence
.
I
haue
a
goode
Stallion
,
and
am
think
'
g
of
get
'
g
a
Coach
,
there
be
'
g
one
(
Mr.
Merritt
's
)
in
Prouidence
already
,
tho
'
ye
Roades
are
bad
.
If
you
are
dispos
'd
to
Trauel
,
doe
not
pass
me
bye
.
From
Boston
take
ye
Post
Rd.
thro
'
Dedham
,
Wrentham
,
and
Attleborough
,
goode
Tauerns
be
'
g
at
all
these
Townes
.
Stop
at
Mr.
Balcom
's
in
Wrentham
,
where
ye
Beddes
are
finer
than
Mr.
Hatch
's
,
but
eate
at
ye
other
House
for
their
Cooke
is
better
.
Turne
into
Prou
.
by
Patucket
Falls
,
and
ye
Rd.
past
Mr.
Sayles
's
Tauern
.
My
House
opp
.
Mr.
Epenetus
Olney
's
Tauern
off
ye
Towne
Street
,
Ist
on
ye
N.
side
of
Olney
's
Court
.
Distance
from
Boston
Stone
abt
.
XLIV
Miles
.
Sir
,
I
am
ye
olde
and
true
Friend
and
Serut
.
in
Almonsin-Metraton
.
Josephus
C.
To
Mr.
Simon
Orne
,
William
's
-
Lane
,
in
Salem
.
This
letter
,
oddly
enough
,
was
what
first
gave
Ward
the
exact
location
of
Curwen
's
Providence
home
;
for
none
of
the
records
encountered
up
to
that
time
had
been
at
all
specific
The
discovery
was
doubly
striking
because
it
indicated
as
the
newer
Curwen
house
,
built
in
1761
on
the
site
of
the
old
,
a
dilapidated
building
still
standing
in
Olney
Court
and
well
known
to
Ward
in
his
antiquarian
rambles
over
Stampers
'
Hill
.
The
place
was
indeed
only
a
few
squares
from
his
own
home
on
the
great
hill
's
higher
ground
,
and
was
now
the
abode
of
a
negro
family
much
esteemed
for
occasional
washing
,
housecleaning
,
and
furnace-tending
services
.
To
find
,
in
distant
Salem
,
such
sudden
proof
of
the
significance
of
this
familiar
rookery
in
his
own
family
history
,
was
a
highly
impressive
thing
to
Ward
;
and
he
resolved
to
explore
the
place
immediately
upon
his
return
.
The
more
mystical
phases
of
the
letter
,
which
he
took
to
be
some
extravagant
kind
of
symbolism
,
frankly
baffled
him
;
though
he
noted
with
a
thrill
of
curiosity
that
the
Biblical
passage
referred
to
--
Job
14,14
--
was
the
familiar
verse
,
'
If
a
man
die
,
shall
he
live
again
?
All
the
days
of
my
appointed
time
will
I
wait
,
until
my
change
come
.
'
Young
Ward
came
home
in
a
state
of
pleasant
excitement
,
and
spent
the
following
Saturday
in
a
long
and
exhaustive
study
of
the
house
in
Olney
Court
.
The
place
,
now
crumbling
with
age
,
had
never
been
a
mansion
;
but
was
a
modest
two-and-a-half
story
wooden
town
house
of
the
familiar
Providence
colonial
type
,
with
plain
peaked
roof
,
large
central
chimney
,
and
artistically
carved
doorway
with
rayed
fanlight
,
triangular
pediment
,
and
trim
Doric
pilasters
.
It
had
suffered
but
little
alteration
externally
,
and
Ward
felt
he
was
gazing
on
something
very
close
to
the
sinister
matters
of
his
quest
.
The
present
negro
inhabitants
were
known
to
him
,
and
he
was
very
courteously
shown
about
the
interior
by
old
Asa
and
his
stout
wife
Hannah
.
Here
there
was
more
change
than
the
outside
indicated
,
and
Ward
saw
with
regret
that
fully
half
of
the
fine
scroll-and-urn
overmantels
and
shell-carved
cupboard
linings
were
gone
,
whilst
most
of
the
fine
wainscotting
and
bolection
moulding
was
marked
,
hacked
,
and
gouged
,
or
covered
up
altogether
with
cheap
wall-paper
.
In
general
,
the
survey
did
not
yield
as
much
as
Ward
had
somehow
expected
;
but
it
was
at
least
exciting
to
stand
within
the
ancestral
walls
which
had
housed
such
a
man
of
horror
as
Joseph
Curwen
.
He
saw
with
a
thrill
that
a
monogram
had
been
very
carefully
effaced
from
the
ancient
brass
knocker
.
From
then
until
after
the
close
of
school
Ward
spent
his
time
on
the
photostatic
copy
of
the
Hutchinson
cipher
and
the
accumulation
of
local
Curwen
data
.
The
former
still
proved
unyielding
;
but
of
the
latter
he
obtained
so
much
,
and
so
many
clues
to
similar
data
elsewhere
,
that
he
was
ready
by
July
to
make
a
trip
to
New
London
and
New
York
to
consult
old
letters
whose
presence
in
those
places
was
indicated
.
This
trip
was
very
fruitful
,
for
it
brought
him
the
Fenner
letters
with
their
terrible
description
of
the
Pawtuxet
farmhouse
raid
,
and
the
Nightingale-Talbot
letters
in
which
he
learned
of
the
portrait
painted
on
a
panel
of
the
Curwen
library
.
This
matter
of
the
portrait
interested
him
particularly
,
since
he
would
have
given
much
to
know
just
what
Joseph
Curwen
looked
like
;
and
he
decided
to
make
a
second
search
of
the
house
in
Olney
Court
to
see
if
there
might
not
be
some
trace
of
the
ancient
features
beneath
peeling
coats
of
later
paint
or
layers
of
mouldy
wall-paper
.
