“Here is a proposition for the formation of a good neighborhood.  Hedge shall live at Concord, & Mr Hawthorn: George Bradford shall come then; & Mrs Ripley afterward.  Who knows but Margaret Fuller & Charles Newcomb would presently be added?  These if added to our present kings & queens, would make a rare, an unrivalled company.  If these all had their hearth & home here, we might have a solid social satisfaction … We might find that each of us was more completely isolated & sacred than before.”—RWE, journal entry, May 6, 1842.

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