Author

Warren Colburn(1793–1833)

Warren Colburn is documented in Fuller’s letters (1824). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1824
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Warren Colburn’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1824ArithmetickAttested

    “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 Colburn's Arithmetic.

When Fuller engaged with Warren Colburn

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Colburn in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1824—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

p138
read
“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.

Inferred Warren Colburn's arithmetic text, either First Lessons: Intellectual Arithmetic or Arithmetic: Being a Sequel to First Lessons, introduced inductive methods to American mathematics instruction and was in use at Prescott's school.