Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . rst meeting of Miss Fullersclass, which soon grew to be a famous Bostoninstitution, meeting w^eekly for five wintersto consider everything from vanity to soci-ology. The sessions opened at eleven in themorning, ten or a dozen, besides the leader,usually taking active part in the talk. Theleaders own account of the first days, as sentto Emerson and by him quoted in the Mem-oirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, is as follows: 25th November, 1839. — My class is pros-perous. I was so fortunate as to rous
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . rst meeting of Miss Fullersclass, which soon grew to be a famous Bostoninstitution, meeting w^eekly for five wintersto consider everything from vanity to soci-ology. The sessions opened at eleven in themorning, ten or a dozen, besides the leader,usually taking active part in the talk. Theleaders own account of the first days, as sentto Emerson and by him quoted in the Mem-oirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, is as follows: 25th November, 1839. — My class is pros-perous. I was so fortunate as to rouse at oncethe tone of simple earnestness, which canscarcely, when once awakened, cease to vibrate.* No reports of the Conversations areextant, but this sprightly picture of the eighthmeeting, as sent by one who was there to afriend in New Haven, is very pleasantly illumi-nating: Christmas made a holiday for MissFullers class, but it met on Saturday at . Margaret, beautifully dressed (dont de-spise that, for it made a fine picture), presidedwith more dignity and grace than I had thought.
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