ter his burial
at sea and a week's detention at Gibraltar, little Angelo caught the
dread disease and was restored with difficulty. Yet a worse fate was to
follow.

At noon of July 18, while they were off the coast of New Jersey, there
was a gale, followed by a hurricane, which dashed the ship on that Fire
Island Beach which has engulfed so many other vessels. Margaret Fuller
and her husband were drowned with their child. The bodies of the parents
were never recovered, but that of little Angelo was buried in a seaman's
chest among the sandhills, from which it was later disinterred and
brought to our own Mount Auburn by the relatives who had never seen the
baby in life.

And there to-day in a little green grave rests the child of this great
woman's great love.

THE OLD MANSE AND SOME OF ITS MOSSES

"The Old Manse," writes Hawthorne, in his charming introduction to the
quaint stories, "Mosses from an Old Manse", "had never been profaned by
a lay occupant until that memorable summer afternoon when I entered it
as my home. A priest had built it; a priest had succeeded to it; other
priestly men from time to time had dwelt in it; and children born in its
chambers had grown up to assume the priestly character. It is awful to
reflect how many sermons must have been written here!... Here it was,
too, that Emerson wrote 'Nature;' for he was then an inhabitant of
the Manse, and used to watch the Assyrian dawn and Paphian sunset and
moon-rise from the summit of our eastern hill."

[Illustration: OLD MANSE, CONCORD, MASS.]

Emerson's residence in the Old Manse is to be accounted for by the fact
that his grandfather was its first inhabitant. And it was while living
there with his mother and kindred, before his second marriage in 1835,
that he produced "Nature."

It is to the parson, the Reverend William Emerson, that we owe one of
the most valuable Revolutionary documents that have come down to us.
Soon after the young minister came to the old Manse (which was then the
New Manse), he had occasion to make in his almanac this stirring entry:

"This morning, between one and two o'clock, we were alarmed by the
ringing of the bell, and upon examination found that the troops, to the
number of eight hundred, had stole their march from Boston, in boats and
barges, from the bottom of the Common over to a point in Cambridge, near
to Inman's farm, and were at Lexington meeting-house half an hour before
sunrise, where they fire