Author

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke(1678–1751)

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1836). No work is named in the surviving passages, 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

“As to retirement and exercise, your notions are true, the first should not be indulged in so much as to render us savages, nor the last neglected so much as to impair health [...] Bolingbroke.”

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p50

excerpted · readManuscript page

“As to retirement and exercise, your notions are true, the first should not be indulged in so much as to render us savages, nor the last neglected so much as to impair health [...] Bolingbroke.”

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

Inferred Fuller labels two consecutive passages 'Bolingbroke.' but does not name the specific work; the remarks on retirement and exercise match his essays.

Two passages attributed 'Bolingbroke.' on p50: (1) advice on retirement vs.