Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, chapter 7, page 94

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Chapter 7: suburban life at Jamaica Plain. （1838-1844.)

In looking forward to leaving the scene of her school-teaching, Margaret Fuller wrote thus to Mrs. Barlow in a moment of headache and nervous exhaustion:--

November 8, 1838.

I shall go home about Christmas and stay till April, and never set foot out of doors unless to take exercise; and see no human face, divine or otherwise, out of my own family. But I am wearied out and I have gabbled and simpered and given my mind to the public view these two years back, till there seems to be no good left in me.¹

She wrote to Mr. Emerson of the remaining months of that winter,

My sufferings last winter in Groton were almost constant, and I see the journal is very sickly in its tone. I have taken out some leaves. Now I am a perfect Phoenix compared with what I was then, and it all seems past to me. Ms. letter, November 25, 1839.

During this invalid winter, however, she made a brief visit to Boston, where she had three enjoyments,

1 Fuller Mss. i. 22.

Hougton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.

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