...o far from his work. After his exertions in the great Clay campaign of 1844 the family took an old wooden house, surrounded by eight acres of land, on the East River, at Turtle Bay, nearly opposite Blackwell's Island . Margaret Fuller described it as two miles or more from the thickly settled part of New York, but omnibuses and cars give me constant access to the city. She did not complain of her accommodatio...