AssociatedPress Roger Casavant, a retired rare-book collector, is shown in his home in Wayland, Mass., Friday. Casavant, a trustee for the Natick Historical Society, found the oldest known copy Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" in a drawer.

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• December 11, 2004