Author

Christian Register

Christian Register is documented in Fuller’s letters (1834–1844). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1834–1844
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

“We do wish to discontinue the Christian Register as, if we take but one paper, we would wish it of a more general character. We have not yet decided what to take.”
Letter to Abraham W. Fuller · 1835

When Fuller engaged with Christian Register

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed3records
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p211
read
“I was much affected on seeing his death [i.e., reading the account of it]”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 9 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 211–212. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Hudspeth identified Barlow's memorial poem appeared in the Christian Register of 8 November 1834, and Fuller's reading of it implies she had access to this issue.

1835—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p228
read
“If he has not sent you one you may find it in last weeks Christian Register.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1835—

Letter to Abraham W. Fuller

p237
read
“We do wish to discontinue the Christian Register as, if we take but one paper, we would wish it of a more general character. We have not yet decided what to take.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1844—

Letter to Arthur B. Fuller

p204
read
“Mr Conant's letter just published in the Christian Register does you good here.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Hudspeth identified the specific issues (29 June 1844 and 6 July 1844)