Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Richard Baxter(1615–1691)

Richard Baxter is documented in Fuller’s letters (1845). One work is named, all in Letter to William H. Channing, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1845
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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

“She was a picture of primitive piety as she sat, holding the "Saints Rest" in her hand, with her bowed trembling figure and her emphatic nods and her bright sweet blue eyes.”
The Saints' Everlasting Rest · Letter to William H. Channing · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Richard Baxter

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Baxter in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Letter to William H. Channing

p172
mentioned
“She was a picture of primitive piety as she sat, holding the "Saints Rest" in her hand, with her bowed trembling figure and her emphatic nods and her bright sweet blue eyes.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Fuller names 'Saints Rest' as the book her grandmother was holding during Fuller's last visit to her, which Hudspeth identified as Richard Baxter's Saint's Everlasting Rest (first published London, 1650).