Author
George Bancroft is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1835–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“I had not anticipated any further obstacles, but had made up my mind to read to you Bancrofts History and Carlyle, and take care of you in all peace and quietness”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“My father requested me to write a little piece in answer to Mr B's attack on Brutus in the N.A. Review which he published in the Daily Advertiser some time since”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I had not anticipated any further obstacles, but had made up my mind to read to you Bancrofts History and Carlyle, and take care of you in all peace and quietness”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Mr. Bancroft is a far more vivid writer; he has great resources and great command of them, and leading thoughts by whose aid he groups his facts.”
Also reprinted in Papers on Literature and Art. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846