Theodore Parker came all stuck full of knives.

He wound himself round Alcott like an anaconda; you could hear poor Alcott's bones crunch." Margaret Fuller used to visit Concord a good deal, and at one time boarded in the village for several months.
She was very peculiar in her ways, and made people whom she did not like feel very uncomfortable in her presence.

She was not generally popular, although the persons who knew her best valued her genius highly.

But old Doctor Bartlett, a very excellent and kind old doctor, though rather gruff in manner, could not abide her.
About midnight one very dark, stormy night the doctor was called out of bed by a sharp knocking at the door.

He got up and put his head out of the window, and said, "Who's there?
What do you want ?" He was answered by a voice in the darkness below, "Doctor, how much camphire can anybody take by mistake without its killing them ?" To which the reply was, "Who's taken it ?" And the answer was "Margaret Fuller." The doctor answered in great wrath, as he slammed down the window, and returned to bed: "A peck." William Ellery Channing, the poet, was a constant visitor of my sister, and later of my brother Edward.