Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

John Abercrombie(1780–1844)

John Abercrombie is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1834). One work is named, all in Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Manuscripts
Documented
1834
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“he does not mention cases which make against him like those in Abercrombie of persons who have lived sometime with the brain diseased in the extreme… Compare this passage in Abercrombie - "These visions, frivolous and hurtful in which the mind wanders from scene to scene heedless of reason probability or truth (Truth? what is that) No habit can be more opposed to a healthy condition of the mental powers”
Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth · Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections · 1834

When Fuller engaged with John Abercrombie

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Abercrombie in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

p24, p28
analyzed · quoted · readManuscript page
“he does not mention cases which make against him like those in Abercrombie of persons who have lived sometime with the brain diseased in the extreme… Compare this passage in Abercrombie - "These visions, frivolous and hurtful in which the mind wanders from scene to scene heedless of reason probability or truth (Truth?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.