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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 5: finding a friend. (search)
Memoirs,i. 201. In July, 1836, she visited him in Concord. He has left a record, in one of the most graphic at gifted and high-minded woman, Elizabeth Hoar, of Concord, sister of the judge and the senator of that familyfriend, Miss H. L. Chappell, of Southington, Conn. Concord, April 3, 1839. My dear Hannah,--Both your lettamong the Fuller papers, we have a glimpse at these Concord interviews; but not at the very outset; rather, aftm his. Fuller Mss. III. 175, 176. Her visits to Concord not only established intimacy with Mr. Emerson, buto volumes of those to Zelter, and writes, I look to Concord as my Lethe and Eunoi after this purgatory of distrt. It is a fine day for composition, were it not in Concord. But I trow the fates which gave this place ConcorConcord, took away the animating influences of Discord. Life here slumbers and steals on like the river. A very gooed him for a time from that ideal chimney-corner in Concord. Here one may easily differ from her; nevertheless
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 6: school-teaching in Boston and Providence. (1837-1838.) (search)
bles me to present the beginning and the end together. 1836, August 2d. Emerson called this morning and took me to Concord to pass the day. At his house I met Margaret Fuller (I had seen her once before this), and had some conversation with hearian churches. Margaret Fuller was ill for a time after reaching Providence, and wrote to Mr. Emerson in June, 1837: Concord, dear Concord, haven of repose, where headache, vertigo, other sins that flesh is heir to, cannot long continue. After Concord, haven of repose, where headache, vertigo, other sins that flesh is heir to, cannot long continue. After this came a period of unusual health, during which she wrote in great exhilaration to her friends. To Miss Peabody, for instance (July 8, 1837), she exulted in the glow of returning health, and then gave this account of the school:-- As to the Mills, on the Merrimack, there to be silent and enjoy daily wood-walks or boat excursions with her, --or else to go to Concord. As to Providence, she writes:-- I fear I have not much to tell that will amuse you. With books and pens I have, m
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, chapter 7 (search)
for any dispensation which saved him from a formal dinner-party. That he enjoyed a conversation with Margaret Fuller personally is plain from an entry in his American note-books, describing an interview between them during one of her visits to Concord:-- August 22, 1842. After leaving the book at Mr. Emerson's I returned through the woods, and, entering Sleepy Hollow, I perceived a lady reclining near the path which bends along its verge. It was Margaret herself. She had been there the rnoon, meditating or reading; for she had a book in her hand, with some strange title, which I did not understand, and have forgotten. She said that nobody had broken her solitude, and was just giving utterance to a theory that no inhabitant of Concord ever visited Sleepy Hollow, when we saw a group of people entering its sacred precincts. Most of them followed a path which led them away from us; but an old man passed near us and smiled to see Margaret, reclining on the ground, and me sitting
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 8: conversations in Boston. (search)
done. The best part of life is too spiritual to bear recording. Ms. Another friend equally warm, and also of judicial nature, has borne her testimony to the value of these conversations in terms so admirable that they must be cited. This is the late Elizabeth Hoar, of whom Emerson once wrote: Elizabeth consecrates; I have no friend whom I more wish to be immortal than she. A letter has already been quoted from this noble woman, describing her first impressions of Margaret Fuller at Concord; and the following fragment gives her maturer opinion:-- Her friends were a necklace of diamonds about her neck. The confidences given her were their best, and she held them to them; the honor of the conversations was the high tone of sincerity and culture from so many consenting individuals, and Margaret was the keystone of the whole. She was, perhaps, impatient of complacency in people who thought they had claims, and stated their contrary opinion with an air. For such she had no m
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 9: a literary club and its organ. (search)
rkably good telescope, pronounces him parochial, because he made the woods and waters of Concord, Massachusetts, his chief theme. The epithet is curiously infelicitous. To be parochial is to turn awe weight everywhere, these American innovators, living in their little Boston and Cambridge and Concord, had for literary purposes a cosmopolitan training. This advantage would, however, have been oancis, and one or two divinity students. This led to a much larger meeting at Mr. Emerson's in Concord, at which were present, besides the above, O. A. Brownson, T. Parker, C. A. Bartol, C. Stetson,and flourished. Alcott's Ms. Diary. XII. The Club went on meeting, now at Mr. Emerson's in Concord, now at Dr. Francis's in Watertown, now at Mr. Bartol's in Boston. It was made up of unusual m speak with Emerson and Miss Fuller about it; and the next day he and the lady went together to Concord and discussed the plan, apparently wisely rejecting it. He writes of Miss Fuller after his retu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 11: Brook Farm. (search)
It appears from Mr. Alcott's Ms. diary that in October, 1840, while the whole matter was taking form, he met George Ripley and Miss Fuller at Mr. Emerson's in Concord, for the purpose of discussing the new theme. Neither Alcott nor Emerson accepted the project in its completeness. Alcott's Ms Diary, XIV. 170. During the follhe prevailing tendency as to offer to share his house with Mr. Alcott and his family, while suggesting that other like-minded. persons should settle near them in Concord. Mr. Alcott himself speaks of Brook Farm as our community; but perhaps uses the words in a very general sense. At any rate, Brook Farm established itself withhat would have insured several weeks of stillness and solitude for her; she being tired to death of dissipation. This failing, she expresses willingness to go to Concord, but, should that be inconvenient, she can go to Brook Farm, as the next best medicine:-- They will give me a room at Brook Farm, if I wish, let me do as I p
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 14: European travel. (1846-1847.) (search)
very interesting and characteristic, and the total impression of truthfulness and accuracy is strong. There are no signs of retouching for literary effect, but in many cases the single word of memorandum suggests a paragraph, while on other points caution or courtesy dictated a reticence which it is now needless to maintain. Here is a passage from her Edinburgh diary. David Scott, whose pictures interested her so much, painted a striking portrait of Emerson, which is now in the Concord, Massachusetts, public library:-- [September, 1846.] At Robert Chambers's. Saw there beautiful book of Highlanders in their costumes. Hopes of chemistry as to making food. Remark of R. C. as to the clumsiness of nature's means of providing for that purpose, etc. Mrs. C. with her fifteen children and three pair of twins among them. Monday. Visit to the Bank of Scotland. To [David] Scott's room. He.is a severe, earnest man with high imaginations. I liked him much, and his pictures from h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 15: marriage and motherhood. (1847-1850.) (search)
on, was still a very woman at heart. With this retrospect for a background, the married life of Margaret Fuller Ossoli may now be studied. It will be portrayed, so far as possible, from original documents; the first place being given to a letter, relating to her, not included in the Memoirs, from Mr. Cass, then American charge d'affaires at Rome, and one of the few in whom she put confidence, at the great crisis of her life. The letter is addressed to Mrs. W. Ellery Channing, of Concord, Massachusetts, who, as has already been said, was the younger sister of Madame Ossoli. Legation des États-unis d'amerique. Rome, May 10, 1851. Madam,--I beg leave to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the — th ult., and to express my regret that the weak state of my eyesight has prevented me from giving it an earlier reply. In compliance with your request, I have the honor to state, succinctly, the circumstances connected with my acquaintance with the late Madame Ossoli, your decease
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 19: personal traits. (search)
t no temple on the earth, they have given a nearer view of the city of God. Yet would I rather, were the choice tendered to me, draw the lot of Pericles than that of Anaxagoras. And if such great names do not fit the occasion, I would delight more in thought-living than in living thought. That is not a good way of expressing it either, but I must correct the press another time. Ms. This feeling led her to criticise more than once, as we have seen, her friend's half cloistered life at Concord. Describing in one of her letters some speech which called for action, perhaps Kossuth's, she says:-- Read these side by side with Waldo's paragraphs and say, is it not deeper and truer to live than to think? . . . Yet is his [Emerson's] a noble speech! I love to reprove myself by it. Ms. (W. H. C.) As I read her letters and diaries, it seems plain that her yearning desire, during her whole life, was not merely to know but to do. She was urged on by an intense longing, not for
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Index. (search)
m, 87. Burleigh, Charles, 176. Burns, Robert, 226. C. Cabot, J. E., 159. Cambridge, Mass., between 1810 and 1830, 32. Campbell, Thomas, 290. Carlyle-Emerson Correspondence, 4, 135, 145, 151, 164, 170. Carlyle, Thomas, 45 69 102 135,145, 164, 175, 190, 220, 222, 22. Cass, Lewis, Jr., 241; letter to, 266; letter from, 234. Chalmers, Thomas, 229. Chambers, Robert, 226. Channing, Edward T., 33. Channing, W. E. (Boston), 63, 86, 106, 122, 144, 171. Channing, W. Ellery (Concord), 30, 100, 156, 164, 307. Channing, Ellen (Fuller), 30, 81, 52, 55, 92, 234. Channing, W. H., letters to. 91, 110, 111, 120, 148, 151, 161, 180, 183, 191, 201, 207, 308, 309; other references, 3, 34, 206, 212, 279. Channing. See Eustis. Chapman, M. W., 125. Chappell, H. L., letter to, 64. Cheney, E. D. 128. Child, L. M., 4115, 128, 132, 208, 206, 211. Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 50. Clarke, James Freeman, 34, 85, 122, 142, 144, 146, 155, 162, 164, 168, 169, 193, 199. Clark