Author
Jacob Bigelow is documented in Fuller’s letters. One work is named, all in Letter to unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Jacob Bigelow’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Blessed to be the hour in which you lent me "Bigelow's Elements" - I have studied the Architecture attentively till I feel quite mistress of it all.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re287 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6109-6112; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. "I have studied the Architecture attentively till I feel quite mistress of it" documents explicit sustained study of the borrowed book.
“Blessed to be the hour in which you lent me 'Bigelow's Elements' — I have studied the Architecture attentively till I feel quite mistress of it all.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Blessed to be the hour in which you lent me 'Bigelow's Elements' — I have studied the Architecture attentively till I feel quite mistress of it all.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I am glad, too, that you thought of lending me 'Bigelow's Elements.' I have studied the Architecture attentively”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
The archive identifies Jacob Bigelow's *Elements of Technology* (1829) as the presumed source of Fuller's interest in architecture.