Siege of Rome.--Margaret's care of the sick and wounded.--Anxiety about her husband and child.--Battle between the French and Italian troops.--The Surrender.--Garibaldi's departure.--Margaret joins her husband at his post.--Angelo's illness.--Letters from friends in America.--Perugia.--Winter in Florence.--Margaret's domestic life.--Aspect of her future.--Her courage and industry.--Ossoli's affection for her.--William Henry Hurlbut's reminiscences of them both.--Last days in Florence.--Farewell visit to the Duomo.--Margaret's evenings at home.--Horace Sumner.--Margaret as a friend of the people 245 CHAPTER XVI. Margaret turns her face homeward.--Last letter to her mother.--The barque "Elizabeth."--Presages and omens.--Death of the captain.--Angelo's illness.--The wreck.--The long struggle.--The end 265 CHAPTER XVII. Margaret Fuller's Literary Remains 280 INDEX 293 FOOTNOTES MARGARET FULLER. CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH.--SCHOOL DAYS. The subject of the following sketch, Sarah Margaret Fuller, has already been most fortunate in her biographers. Cut off herself in the prime of life, she left behind her devoted friends who were still in their full vigor of thought and sentiment. Three of these, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and William Henry Channing, set their hand, some thirty or more years ago, to the happy task of preserving for posterity their strong personal impressions of her character and influence. With these precious reminiscences were interwoven such extracts from her correspondence and diary as were deemed fittest to supply the outline of her own life and experience. What, it may be asked, can such biographers have left for others to do? To surpass their work is not to be thought of. But, in the turning and perseverance of this planet, present soon becomes past, and that which has been best said asks to be said again. This biography, so rich in its suggestions and so valuable in its details, is already set in a past light by the progress of men and of things. Its theme has lost none of its interest. Nay, it is through the growing interest felt in Margaret and her work that a demand seems to have arisen for a later word about her, which cannot hope to be better or wiser than the words already made public, but which may borrow from them the inspiration for a new study and presentment.