Lectures, Articles, and Papers Related to The Custom House Sketch

Hawthorne's Office in the Salem Custom House (photography by Aaron Toleos)

• "Figurations of Salem in 'Young Goodman Brown' and 'The Custom-House,'" lecture by Dr. Rita Gollin, SUNY, Geneseo, delivered at Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum on September 23, 2000.
  
  
• The Scarlet Letter’s Angry Eagle and The Salem Custom House" by Hugh Dawson in an article on the eagle of the Salem Custom House from the January, 1986 , vol. 122 issue of the Essex Institute Historical Collection pp. 30-34 (courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum)