Fuller accepted the editor position on October 20, 1839, though she was unable to begin work on the publication until the first week of 1840. The first issue of The Dial, with an introduction by Emerson calling it a "Journal in a new spirit", was published in July 1840. The Transcendental Club likely did not have official meetings after September 1840, though they continued to correspond and attend each other's lectures. The Dial continued to be published, though it was never financially stable. In 1843, then business manager Elizabeth Peabody counted only two hundred subscribers and that its income was not covering production costs. It finally ceased publication in April 1844. Emerson's speech/essay "Nature" has been considered a manifesto of Transcendentalist ideas. References Sources Perry Miller, The Transcendentalists (Harvard University Press, 1966). , , . External links A brief history of the Club from Transcendentalism Web Caroline Sturgis Tappan Papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University — includes correspondence with Emerson, Fuller, etc. Transcendentalism 1836 establishments in Massachusetts 19th century in Boston