Author

Christopher Columbus

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

This author survives here only through the 1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled after her death by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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When Fuller engaged with Christopher Columbus

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

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This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1840—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Mem-2-07b, line 17586, journal Dec 22 1840

mentioned

“O Christopher Columbus! how art thou to be admired, when we see how other men go to work with their lesser enterprises!”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred No work is named. Fuller refers to Christopher Columbus — “O Christopher Columbus! how art thou to be admired, when we see how other men go to work with their lesser enterprises!” — and the passage does not identify a specific writing.