Manuscript deposition, 18 lines, in ink, on sheet of paper 15x18.5 cm. (6x7½"). Signed by Gen. Humphrey Atherton as the judge administering the oath.

Original 17th century manuscript document recording testimony regarding an adulterous love triangle in the Puritan Boston of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. John Thorne's states "that he heard the wife of William Clements of Cambridge say in the presence of Mr. Wintroud, Mr. Bellinger and Mr. Howell that she never loved the said Clements, her husband, and never had societie with him nor never had desire to have and that she loved one that went out of Salem better than her said husband..." Holy Hester Prynne.