●   ●   ●    visit he made to Alcott at Concord, the latter in his journal described Barry as an “interesting young gentleman, bearing favorable testimony to the faith and purity of the school,” but gave him several copies of The Journal of Speculative Philosophy for the improvement of his mind. 30 Samuel Putnam Bancroft, often called Putney, was an intelligent young businessman whose outspoken common sense comes across in his later accounts of the period.