here:--

Mrs. George Bancroft, Mrs. Barlow, Miss Burley, Mrs. L.M. Child, Miss
Mary Channing, Miss Sarah Clarke, Mrs. E.P. Clark, Miss Dorr, Mrs.
Edwards, Mrs. R.W. Emerson, Mrs. Farrar, Miss S.J. Gardiner, Mrs. R.W.
Hooper, Mrs. S. Hooper, Miss Haliburton, Miss Howes, Miss E. Hoar,
Miss Marianne Jackson, Mrs. T. Lee, Miss Littlehale, Mrs. E.G. Loring,
Mrs. Mack, Mrs. Horace Mann, Mrs. Newcomb, Mrs. Theodore Parker, Miss
E.P. Peabody, Miss S. Peabody, Mrs. S. Putnam, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs.
Josiah Quincy, Miss B. Randall, Mrs. Samuel Ripley, Mrs. George
Ripley, Mrs. George Russell, Miss Ida Russell, Mrs. Frank Shaw, Miss
Anna B. Shaw, Miss Caroline Sturgis, Miss Tuckerman, Miss Maria White,
Mrs. S.G. Ward, Miss Mary Ward, Mrs. W. Whiting.]

CONVERSATIONS ON THE FINE ARTS.

"Miss Fuller's fifth conversation was pretty much a monologue
of her own. The company collected proved much larger than any
of us had anticipated: a chosen company,--several persons from
homes out of town, at considerable inconvenience; and, in one
or two instances, fresh from extreme experiences of joy and
grief,--which Margaret felt a very grateful tribute to her.
She knew no one came for experiment, but all in earnest love
and trust, and was moved by it quite to the heart, which threw
an indescribable charm of softness over her brilliancy. It is
sometimes said, that women never are so lovely and enchanting
in the company of their own sex, merely, but it requires the
other to draw them out. Certain it is that Margaret never
appears, when I see her, either so brilliant and deep in
thought, or so desirous to please, or so modest, or so
heart-touching, as in this very party. Well, she began to say
how gratifying it was to her to see so many come, because all
knew why they came,--that it was to learn from each other and
ourselves the highest ends of life, where there could be no
excitements and gratifications of personal ambition, &c. She
spoke of herself, and said she felt she had undergone changes
in her own mind since the last winter, as doubtless we all
felt we had done; that she was conscious of looking at all
things less objectively,--more from the law with which she
identified herself. This, she stated, was the natural
progress of our individual being, when we did not hinder
its development, to advance from objects to law, from the