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80 Miss Fuller to be his assistant. She wrote of him to Miss Peabody: “Mr. Fuller is as unlike as possible to Mr. Alcott. He has neither his poetic beauty nor his practical defects.” His offer to her, as stated in Mr. Alcott’s diary, was a liberal one for those days, and I am assured by Miss Jacobs, who followed Miss Fuller in the school, that the thousand dollars were undoubtedly paid, though Horace Greeley, in his “Recollections,” states the contrary. Mr. Fuller taught the school for a few years only, then went to New York and became connected with the New York “Mirror,” edited by N. P. Willis and George P. Morris. This he abandoned after a time, “being tired,” as he said, “of supporting two poets,” and was afterwards editor of the London “Cosmopolitan.” In addition to his bold choice of an assistant, he invoked the rising prestige of Ralph Waldo Emerson, inviting him to give an address at the dedication of the Academy (Saturday, June 10, 1837), and suggesting to him, he being still in the ministry, to bring sermons and preach in the two Unitarian churches.

Margaret Fuller was ill for a time after reaching Providence, and wrote to Mr. Emerson in June, 1887: “Concord, dear 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 Pea-