V.
CONVERSATIONS IN BOSTON.
In the year 1839, Margaret removed from Groton, and,
with her mother and family, took a house at Jamaica
Plain, five miles from Boston. In November of the next
year the family removed to Cambridge, and rented a
house there, near their old home. In 1841, Margaret
took rooms for the winter in town, retaining still the
house in Cambridge. And from the day of leaving
Groton, until the autumn of 1844, when she removed
to New York, she resided in Boston, or its immediate
vicinity. Boston was her social centre. There
were the libraries, galleries, and concerts which she
loved; there were her pupils and her friends; and
there were her tasks, and the openings of a new career.
I have vaguely designated some of the friends with whom she was on terms of intimacy at the time when I was first acquainted with her. But the range of her talents required an equal compass in her society; and she gradually added a multitude of names to the list. She knew already all the active minds at Cambridge; and has left a record of one good interview she had with
