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Vol 2. p. 382 ?
Ask about letter from Fuller.
Newton May 31. 1882
Dear Sir,
I understand that you have written
a letter to me which is entitled to an answer. I
am sorry to say that it has failed to reach me;
so that I may be unable to give the reply which
it asks. It {relates ?], however, as I am told, to
the Dial, that much [ridiculous ?], occasionally ad-
mired, more commonly neglected journal of the
old Transcendentalism. I cannot say much about
it. During the Shah period of its high existence I
lived in the eastern part of Maine, and was the
only subscriber for it, I presume, in that region.
With the exception of Mr. Emerson whom I had met
some years before when he once visited his relatives
in my native town - Miss Mary [Mosely ?] being
one of them - I have never known one of the per-
sons - unless Dr. Hodge, then of Bangor, be considered
one of them - by whom the Dial was started and
conducted. And by the way the statements of
Mrs. Alcott, I believe - this I became a member of
the Transcendental Club, if that is the name of it, is