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THINK the name of Emma Martin deserves mention in these sketches, although the little I have learned of her life-history has been from the perusal of “Half-hours with Freethinkers”; but her writings show vigor and breadth of mind, while personally she seems to have made a decided impression upon all those with whom she was brought in contact, as a refined and beautiful woman, and deep thinker.

In his sketch of the English Communists, Moncure D, Conway says briefly that “Harmony Hall had, like ‘Brook Farm,’ many interesting women in it. . . . Mrs. Emma Martin was both beautiful and eloquent.”