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a mistake. If I had been near enough to Boston
while it was in existence, I might have sought the
fellowship which it expressed; but hundreds of
miles to a poor "country parson" proved an obstacle
not easy to surmount. After coming to Massa-
chusetts in 1846, I was with others in the inception
of the town and country club, which however had but
a short, even if not frail or feverish, being. This,
however, has nothing to do with the Dial. With that
I had nothing to do but to read it and furnish
one article, entitled Man in the Ages. Besides this
in my correspondence with Miss Emerson I wrote a
letter, which, without any purpose or thought of
mine, was [ that most ?]of it published in the same
Journal, in what Number I do not remember and
have not the volume by me; and quite to my discon-
fort ascribed to a Calvinist. For although [they ?] con-
nected with the churches called Orthodox, I have in
my own mind [abj ?], I think, all sectarism.
I received in those days a leter from Marga-
ret Fuller pertaining to the Dial, which I am obliged
to confess I never answered, simply because I had
nothing to say. Farther than those unimportant things
I do not remember any matter connecting me with
a publication which [always ?] interested me, which
I have always felt as a very significant part, although
not unaware of defects. Of the movement itself
which is partially represented I think still more
highly. Transcendentalism and Abolitionism seem to
me the two grave impulses of the decades pre-
ceeding the year 1830, and the spirit of both. I