Dedication: To the Educators in Higher Learning who instill the confidence for critical thinking. Editor’s Introduction: After visiting England and France, Margaret Fuller paused to pen a letter to America from that perspective that reveals the love of a place or idea. I regard her as equally motivated as Mary Julia Baldwin whose family originated from New England and founded a branch in Virginia and who proved highly capable. -Antony Frame From her Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I: "'There was, in the house, no apartment appropriated to the purpose of a library, but there was in my father's room a large closet filled with books, and to these I had free access when the task-work of the day was done. Its window overlooked wide fields, gentle slopes, a rich and smiling country, whose aspect pleased without much occupying the eye, while a range of blue hills, rising at about twelve miles distance, allured to reverie. "Distant mountains," says Tieck, "excite the fancy, for beyond them we place the scene of our Paradise." Thus, in the poems of fairy adventure, we climb the rocky barrier, pass fearless its dragon caves, and dark pine forests, and find the scene of enchantment in the vale behind. My hopes were never so definite, but my eye was constantly allured to that distant blue range, and I would sit, lost in fancies, till tears fell on my cheek. I loved this sadness; but only in later years, when the realities of life had taught me moderation, did the passionate emotions excited by seeing them again teach how glorious were the hopes that swelled my heart while gazing on them in those early days."