Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

David Hatch Barlow(1802–1874)

David Hatch Barlow is documented in Fuller’s letters (1834). One work is named, all in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had David Hatch Barlow’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1834Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss EmersonAttested

    “I meant to have mentioned, in speaking of Mr Barlow, his lines on the death of Edward Emerson... they drew many tears from my eyes”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton gth Novr 1834

    Explicit personal reaction 'they drew many tears from my eyes' to specific named lines by Barlow.

In Fuller’s words

“I meant to have mentioned, in speaking of Mr Barlow, his lines on the death of Edward Emerson. I know not whether it was their beauty or the feelings I have always entertained towards Edward E (though I did not know him) but they drew many tears from my eyes”
"Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss Emerson" · Letter to Frederic H. Hedge · 1834

When Fuller engaged with David Hatch Barlow

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.

Barlow in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p211
analyzed · read
“I meant to have mentioned, in speaking of Mr Barlow, his lines on the death of Edward Emerson.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 9 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 211–212. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the poem as “Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss Emerson” published in the Christian Register in November 1834, with a second poem on the same subject appearing in December.