p.

Bolton June 12. 1882.
Dear Sir,
You are right in attributing to me the
extract found in vol. 2. p. 382. Your letter { ?]
me to look at it again, and has done something
to illustrate the development of my thought from
during a period of forty years in which I have been
trying to gain clearer insight. Who the Friend is
quoted on the right page, I do not know.
The letter from Margaret Fuller was not one of
[ ?] business, but rather giving true account of the
Journal, particularly its origin with some "earnest
persons", as she reported them. But I am sorry to say
that I neither remember the [ ?] nor am able to
say whether the letter is still in existence. If is be
sure I can find it. I shall be very ready to put you
in possession of it.
My local position for years before and after 1840
makes it almost impossible for me to add any thing
to your knowledge of the Dial as regards either its
history or the reception it made. You know as well as
I that it was laughed at not a little and some-
times more solemnly another time. Any question
which you may propose, I will gladly answer, if I can.
Your friend and brother,
Thomas T. Stone
Rev. George W. Cooke.
Dedham.