Author
Hugh Blair is documented in Fuller’s letters (1824). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 Hugh Blair’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, May 21St. 1824
Same explicit studying statement names Blair's Rhetoric.
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick. I feel myself rather degraded from Cicero's Oratory to One and two are how many [...] I do not believe the two former will do any good except as an exercise of the memory”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.