Author

Nicholas Biddle(1786–1844)

Nicholas Biddle is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1836). One work is named, all in Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedReadMentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1836
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

“Scraps from Nicholas Biddle's oration at Princeton Sept - 1835. "In our country too many young men rush into the arena of public life without adequate preparation [...]”
Oration at Princeton, September 1835 · Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Nicholas Biddle

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Biddle in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p128–p130
excerpted · readManuscript page
“Scraps from Nicholas Biddle's oration at Princeton Sept - 1835. "In our country too many young men rush into the arena of public life without adequate preparation [...]”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).