The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-26
DEATH OF MARGARET FULLER.

A great soul has passed from this mortal stage of
being in the death ofSARAH MARGARET FULLER.
by marriage Marchioness Ossoi who, with her bus-
band and child, Mr.. Henry Sumner of Boston, and
others, was drowned in the wreck of the BRIG Eliza
beth from Leghorn for this port on the south Shore of
Long Island, near Fire Island, on Friday afternoon
last No passenger survives to tell the story of that
nights horrors, whose fury appalled, many of our
snugy sheltered citizens reposing securely in their
beds. We can adequately realize what it must have
been to yoyagers approaching our coast from the
Old World IN vessels helplessly expused to the rage
OF that wild southwestern gale and seeing in the
long and anxiousy expected land of their youth and
Their love only an aggravaton Ofther pers, DEATH
blow TO their hopes, and assurance of their tempora
doom!
Margaret Fuller the daughter of Hon. Tmo
thy Fuller, lawyer of Boston, but nearly all his life
resident of Cambridge, and Representative Of
the Middlesex District in Congress from 1917 to 1925
Mr. Fuller. upon his retirement from Congress. pur
chased farm at some distance from Boston, and
abandoned Law for Agriculture, soon after which he
died. HIS widow and six children still survive
Margaret, five mistake not, was the first born.
and from very early age evlnced the possession of
remarkable intellectual powers Her father regard
ed her with proud admiration, and was from child
hood her chief instructor, guide, companion and
friend. He committed the too common error Of slim
ulatlng her intellect to assduty and perssency of
effort which severely taxed and ultimately injured her
physical powers. AT eight years of age he was ac
custoned to require of her the composition of num-
Der of Latin verses per day, while her studies in
Philosophy, History, General Science and curren,
Literature were in after years extensive and profound
Alter her fathers death, she applied herself to teach
ing as vocation, first In Boston, then in Providence
and afterwards in Boston again, where her sConyer-
caftn
ofwomen, some ofthem married, and including many
from the best families of the American Athens
In the Autumn of 1914, she accepted an invitation
to take part in the conduct of The Tribune with esne
cia reference TO the department of Reviews and
Criticism on current Literature, Art, Music &c
position which she filed nearly two years. Her re-
views of Longfelow's Poems, Baey's 'Festus,
Douglas Lille, &C., must yet be remembered bv
many She had previously found SIT audience though
iew, for a series of remarkable papers on s'Phe
Great Musicians, Lord Herbert of Cherbury syVo
man. &c. &C., in The DIAL quarterly of re-
markabe breadth and yigor, Of which she was At
hrst eo-Editor with Ralph Waldo Emerson. but
which was afterward edited by him only. thouub
she continued contributor to its pages. Ia 1913.
she accompanied some friends on a tour via Niagara
Detroit and Mackinac to Chicago and across the
Prarles of Illinois, and her resulting volume entitle5
Summer on the Lakes is one of the best works IN
ITS department ever issued from the American press
In the Summer Of lS45, Miss Fuller recommended
the family OF devoted friend to Europe, visiting Eng
land Scoiland France, and passing through Ialy 10
Rome, where they spent the ensuing Winter. She
accompanied her friends next Spring to The North Of
Italy, and there stopped, spending most the sum-
mer at Florence, and returning at the approach of
Winter to Rome, where she was soon after married
10 Giovanni, Marquis d'Ossoli, who had made her
acquaintance during her first Winter in the Eternal
City. They have since resided in the Roman states
until tue last Summer, after the surrender of Romo
to the French army Of assassins of Liberty. when
they deemed 1t expedient 10 migrate to Florence
both having taken an active part in the Republican,
movement which resulted so disastrously-nav Of
which the ultimate result is yet TO be Witnessed
Thence in June they departed and set sail n og'
horn Tor this por, in the Philadelphia brig Elizabeth
which was doomed TO encounter succession Of dis,
asters, and arrived on coast on the fearful nigb,
between Thursday and Friday last, when darl,ness
ram, and terrific gale from the southwest ftbe
most dangerous quarter possible) conspired 10 hnr
her INTO the very jaws Of destruction. She strnct
curing the night, and before the next evening Inc
Elizabeth was mass Of drifting sticks and nlanLs
while her passengers and part Of her crew yye,e |
buried IN the boiling surges Alas that our g;ced
friend, and those nearest TO and most loved he hor
should have been among them 'N y "o'
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