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   managed to “offend”:
ELI,
p. 450.

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   “magnetic power” . . . “sympathy and time”:
FLVI,
p. 261.

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   “Whoever would preach”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, “Emerson as Preacher,” in F. B. Sanborn, ed.,
The Genius and Character of Emerson: Lectures at the Concord School of Philosophy
(Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1971, reprint of 1885 edition), p. 161.

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   “greatly pained”:
FLVI,
p. 287.

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   “forget what”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 195.

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   “Margaret alone”:
FLI,
p. 95.

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   “born with knives”: RWE, “Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England,”
Lectures and Biographical Sketches
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1886), p. 311.

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   “vicious in”: Quoted in Bruce Ronda, ed.,
The Letters of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
(Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1984), p. 245.

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   “the only book”:
ELVII,
p. 245.

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   “one third”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 198.

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   “an ignorant”: Quoted in Madelon Bedell,
The Alcotts: Biography of a Family
(New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980), p. 131.

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   “more indecent”: Joseph T. Buckingham, review in the
Boston Courier,
quoted in
CFI,
p. 198.

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   “one-sided”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 198.

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   “star of purest”:
FLI,
p. 265.

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   “lost in abstractions”:
OMI,
p. 172.

9. “BRINGING MY OPINIONS TO THE TEST”

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   “Here is the hostile”:
FLI,
pp. 286–87.

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   “It is but a bad”:
FLVI,
p. 293.

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   “too young”:
FLIII,
p. 226.

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   “faded frocks” . . . “Now that”:
FLI,
p. 258.

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   “vegetate” . . . “sunny kindness”:
FLI,
p. 272.

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   “had a grand”:
FLI,
p. 285.

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   “as soon as you can”:
ELII,
p. 35.

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   “poppy & oatmeal”:
ELII,
p. 37.

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   “esteemed her “holiness”:
FLI,
p. 328.

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   “We lead a life”:
ELII,
p. 41.

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   “I am sure”:
FLI,
p. 269.

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   privately “schooling” herself:
FLI,
p. 272.

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   “the excitement”:
FLI,
p. 272.

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   “Waldo’s “Compensation”:
FLI,
p. 285.

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   “learning geology”: “Address on Education,” in Stephen E. Whicher, Robert E. Spiller, and Wallace E. Williams, eds.,
The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson,
vol. 2, 1836–1838 (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964), pp. 195–96.

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   “Concord, dear Concord”:
FLI,
p. 283.

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   “These black times”:
ELII,
p. 77.

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   “peculiar aspects”: “Address on Education,” pp. 195–97.

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   “The disease”: Ibid., p. 196.

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   “capital secret”: Ibid., p. 202.

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   “teach self-trust”: Ibid., p. 199.

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   “Amid the swarming”: Ibid., p. 196.

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   “
Man Thinking
”: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,”
Essays and Lectures
(New York: Library of America, 1983), p. 54.

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   “willing to communicate”: Laraine R. Fergensen, “Margaret Fuller in the Classroom: The Providence Period,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1987 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 138.

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   “I believe I do”:
FLI,
p. 292.

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   “There is room”:
FLI,
p. 288.

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   “hearts are right”:
FLI,
p. 292.

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   “absolutely torpid”: To Bronson Alcott,
FLI,
p. 287.

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   “this experience”:
FLI,
p. 292.

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   “antipathy” to worms: Laraine R. Fergensen, “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher in Providence: The School Journal of Ann Brown,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1991 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 70.

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   “spoke upon”: Mary Ware Allen, quoted in
VM,
p. 102.

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   “wished to live”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 102.

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   “Daphne, Aspasia, Sappho: Judith Strong Albert, “Margaret Fuller’s Row at the Greene Street School: Early Female Education in Providence, 1837–1839,”
Rhode Island History,
vol. 42, May 1983, p. 46.

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   “Lament of Mary”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 70.

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   Princess Victoria’s ascension: Ibid., pp. 67–68.

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   “How and when”: Mark Shuffleton, “Margaret Fuller at the Greene Street School: The Journal of Evelina Metcalf,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1985 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 39.

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   “I wish”: Anna Gale, quoted in
CFI,
p. 230.

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   “serve two masters”:
FLI,
p. 327.

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   “barbarous ignorance”: Quoted in Bell Gale Chevigny,
The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller’s Life and Writings
(Old Westbury, N.Y.: The Feminist Press, 1976), p. 174.

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   “miserably prepared”:
FLI,
p. 292.

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   “satirical” . . . “I often” . . . “too rough” . . . “I dare”: “Margaret Fuller in the Classroom,” pp. 134–35.

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   “we must
think
”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 231.

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   message of “self-trust”: “The American Scholar,” pp. 53–71
passim.

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   Emerson’s “sermons”:
OMI,
p. 195.

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   “Who would be”:
JMNV,
p. 407.

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   “what is any”:
ELII,
p. 82.

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   “
O my friends
”:
FLI,
pp. 294–95.

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   “Mr. Hedge’s Club”:
ELII,
p. 95.

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   club of the “Like-Minded”: JFC, quoted in
CFI,
p. 182.

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   “all-day party”: Dolores Bird Carpenter, ed.,
The
Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987), p. 59.

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   “the progress”: Tess Hoffman, “Miss Fuller Among the Literary Lions: Two Essays Read at ‘The Coliseum’ in 1838,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1988 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 45.

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   “who knows”:
ELII,
p. 95.

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   “plying the “Spiritualists”:
Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson,
p. 59.

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   “incompleteness” in the reasoning: “Miss Fuller Among the Literary Lions,” p. 51.

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   “immense wants”: Ibid., p. 46.

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   “a woman may”: Ibid., p. 50.

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   “marriage, mantua-making”:
FLVI,
p. 279.

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   “Too bright”: “Miss Fuller Among the Literary Lions,” p. 50.

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   “the idea”: Ibid.

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   “I feel”:
FLI,
p. 302.

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   “I grow”:
FLI,
p. 325.

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   “school for”:
FLI,
p. 322.

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   “those who would reform”:
FLI,
p. 287.

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   “This was just”:
FLI,
pp. 322–23.

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   “there were no”:
FLI,
p. 304.

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   “It is no longer”:
FLI,
p. 316.

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   “I
must
leave”:
FLI,
p. 295.

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   “Holiness” and “Heroism”:
FLI,
pp. 327–28.

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   “all the scandal” . . . “a poor”:
FLI,
p. 293.

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   “You must not”:
FLI,
p. 318.

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   “she’d been expelled:
FLII,
p. 149.

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   “As to transcendentalism”:
FLI,
pp. 314–15.

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   “nothing striped”:
FLI,
p. 311.

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   “the heroic element”:
FLII,
p. 41.

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   “I keep on”:
FLI,
p. 327.

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   “three precious”:
FLI,
p. 320.

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   “two years”:
FLI,
p. 349.

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   “that I may”:
FLI,
p. 320.

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   “There is a beauty”:
FLI,
p. 331.

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   “devote to writing”:
FLI,
p. 349.

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   “Its superior tone”:
ELII,
p. 135.

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   “it is regal”:
FLI,
p. 332.

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   “We are the children”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 91.

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   “those means”:
FLI,
p. 327.

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   “gabbled and simpered”:
FLI,
p. 351.

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   any “May-gales”: “Margaret Fuller as a Teacher,” p. 90.

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   “eat up”:
ELII,
p. 143.

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   “as handsome”:
ELII,
p. 135.

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   “I am better”:
FLI,
p. 328.

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   “It seems”:
ELII,
p. 168. This passage may have been the germ of Emerson’s well-known statement “Men descend to meet,” in his essay “The Over-Soul.”
Essays and Lectures
, p. 391.

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   “persons except”:
ELII,
p. 129.

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   “Devoutly” . . . “Always”:
FLI,
pp. 328, 337.

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   “For a hermit”:
ELII,
p. 143.

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   “Will you commission”:
ELII,
p. 169.

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   “I heard”:
FLI,
p. 352.

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   “a new young man”:
FLI,
pp. 341–42.

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   “full of affection”:
FLI,
p. 342.

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   “elegantly bound”: “Margaret Fuller at the Greene Street School,” p. 45.

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   “vestal solitudes”:
FLI,
p. 351.

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   “I do not wish”:
FLI,
pp. 353–55
passim.

10. “WHAT WERE WE BORN TO DO?”

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   “all the value”:
FLVI,
p. 312.

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   “pitiful” and “clumsy”:
FLI,
p. 300.

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   “Lines”  . . . “F”: “LINES–On the Death of C.C.E.,”
Daily Centinel and Gazette,
vol. 1, no. 32, May 17, 1836.

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   “huntsman’s dart”: From “Eagles and Doves,” in John Sullivan Dwight, ed.,
Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller
(Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1839), pp. 104–5.

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   “To a Golden Heart”: Ibid., p. 31.

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   “there is reason”: Ibid., p. xv.

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   “in course”: Ibid.

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   “lying in heaps”:
FLVI,
p. 309.

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   “monologue” by Goethe: MF translation,
Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life, Translated from the German of Eckermann
(Boston: J. Munroe, 1839), p. viii.

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   “He knew both”: Ibid., p. xx.

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   “it was all tea”:
FLVI,
p. 309.

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   “hackneyed moral”:
FLII,
p. 56.

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   “the disorders”:
FLIII,
p. 85.

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   “is the natural”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man
versus
Men. Woman
versus
Women,”
Dial,
vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 35.

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   “as if an intellectual”:
FLII,
p. 32.

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   “a brilliant”:
ELII,
pp. 202–3.

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   “daunts & chills”:
ELII,
p. 197.

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   “ransom more time”:
FLIII,
p. 198.

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   “speed the pen”:
ELII,
p. 203.

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   threw herself “unremittingly”: Robert N. Hudspeth, “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal: Trip to Bristol,”
Harvard Library Bulletin,
vol. 27, 1979, p. 454.

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   begun negotiations:
FLII,
pp. 113–14.

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   practice of billing:
FLI,
p. 350.

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   “the richest”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal,” p. 456.

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   “ill stocked” library: Ibid., p. 457.

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   “destitute of all”: Ibid., p. 464.

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   “live wire”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 271.

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   “unsustained” and “uncertain”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1839 Journal,” p. 464.