You were born under Hatem Yayi's own star, and like him, are the genius of hospitality." (Haten Yayi was a celebrated Oriental whose house had sixteen doors.) And Mrs.Botta was greatly cheered by Emerson.

She wrote: I always wish I had had my photograph taken when Mr.Emerson was staying in my house.

Everyone felt his influence, even the servants who would hardly leave the dining-room.

I looked like a different being, and was so happy I forgot to see that he had enough to eat.
Early in her time some of her friends--such as Ripley, Curtis, and Cranch--had joined a small agricultural and educational association, called the "Brook Farm," near Roxbury, Massachusetts.

She visited them once or twice, and saw Mr.Curtis engaged in washing dishes which had been used by "The Community." She remarked to him that perhaps he could be better employed for the progress of his fellow-men than in wasting his energy on something more easily done by others.
At one time she invited Bronson Alcott, one of the leaders of a similar movement, to preside over some _conversazioni_ in her parlours, where he could elucidate his favourite subject.