When was the tale of Howe's Masquerade first printed?
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1886, in Nathaniel Hawthorne, Twice-told Tales (1886) — which is the earliest printing of this tale the archive HOLDS, and older than the collection its own telling comes from. urn:lemay:boston:entity:howe-s-masquerade
It is not a claim about the earliest printing that exists. It is a claim about a volume the archive can hand over, and the tale stands in it at the passage quoted on the record. urn:lemay:boston:entity:howe-s-masquerade
The records this answer rests on
- Howe's Masquerade — entityurn:lemay:boston:entity:howe-s-masquerade
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- When a tale was first printed, where the archive can prove it
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