Author

Humphry Davy

Humphry Davy is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). One work is named, all in ‘Darkness Visible.’, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1846
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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

“except the preface by another such self-elected guardian to Sir Humphrey Davy’s Consolations in Travel, who charges the reader to attach no importance”
Consolations in Travel · ‘Darkness Visible.’ · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Humphry Davy

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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

Davy in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1846—

‘Darkness Visible.’

“‘Darkness Visible.’”
mentioned
“except the preface by another such self-elected guardian to Sir Humphrey Davy’s Consolations in Travel, who charges the reader to attach no importance”

Fuller, Margaret. "‘Darkness Visible.’." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 March 1846. · 4 March 1846