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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, published essays, journals, and manuscripts (1833–1846). 3 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
“Is not that sketching number in Blackwood very good? I ask for information. I like the review of Mr Motherwell (odious rustick name) better than his poetry though some of that pleased me too— But the article on Cornwall and Devon made me laugh to die and think tis as good as the old Noches—so degagee and overflowring!”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Is not that sketching number in Blackwood very good? I ask for information.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“THE REMOVAL OF SOME OLD FAMILY PORTRAITS, / AUGUST, 1834. [From Blackwood.] / Silent friends! fare ye well— / Shadows! adieu. / Living friends long I've lost, / Now I lose you.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Poems, Others." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.
[From Blackwood.]' The source attribution '[From Blackwood.]' refers to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the prominent Edinburgh literary journal (founded 1817, also called 'Maga').
“I feel at perfect liberty to lend any thing of Mr E's but I would not to any one but you, because, I always so much wish to return books in good order.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller is lending Newcomb issues of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, specifically the August 1838 number borrowed from Emerson on 23 October 1838.
“If your Blackwoods are at hand will you mark in your next letter the Nos in which Sterling has written. I want them for Mr Ward.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller asks Emerson to identify which issues of Blackwood's contain John Sterling's writings, requesting them for Samuel Ward; Hudspeth identified the specific articles she sought were 'Crystals from a Cavern' (March 1839), 'The Sexton's Daughter' (July 1838), 'Thoughts and Images' (August 1838), 'Land and Sea' (September 1838), and 'The Onyx Ring' (November 1838–January 1839).
“They (Dr Francis &c) talk of the Blackwood article as if it introduced a new era, "met the crisis.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal Fragments, 1842." Margaret Fuller Family Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
The article is not identified.
“The sketches of editorial in-door life, too, are better than Blackwood. A very amusing comment on the European part of this book is copied from the Edinburgh Review”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books for the Holidays." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 December 1845. · 22 December 1845
“that blasphemer, who dared to say, in the pages of Blackwood, that "all men, women, and children, are poets, saving only—those who write verses.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
Article author and issue unidentified.
“who lately has delighted us again with the papers in Blackwood, headed SUSPIRIA DE PROFUNDIS.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IV." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 November 1846. · 5 November 1846