Nathaniel Hawthorne 
A Virtuoso’s Collection (From ‘Mosses from an Old Manse’) 

‘A Virtuoso’s Collection (From ‘Mosses from an Old Manse’)’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne references a number of historical and mythical figures, items, beasts, books, etc. as part of a museum collection. The narrator, and thus also the reader, is led through the collection by the virtuoso himself who turns out to be the Wandering Jew, an immortal man and the subject of numerous legends in his own right.