Author
John C. Calhoun is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Fourth of July., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 →
“His sketches of persons are in the same style as all the rest—they are tolerable likenesses, rather flattered than otherwise, not only in the cases of Jefferson and Calhoun”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Mr. Calhoun speaks straight out what he thinks. So far as this straightforwardness goes, he confers the benefits of virtue.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fourth of July." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 July 1845. · 4 July 1845
“His sketches of persons are in the same style as all the rest—they are tolerable likenesses, rather flattered than otherwise, not only in the cases of Jefferson and Calhoun”
Fuller, Margaret. "America and the American People . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 December 1845. · 4 December 1845