Author

George Dawson

George Dawson is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

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1847
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In Fuller’s words

“He is eloquent, with good method in his discourse, fire and dignity when wanted, with a frequent [illegible] in enforcement and illustration which offends the etiquettes of England, but fits him the better for the class he has to address.”
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII. · 1847

When Fuller engaged with George Dawson

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1847—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII.”
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“He is eloquent, with good method in his discourse, fire and dignity when wanted, with a frequent [illegible] in enforcement and illustration which offends the etiquettes of England, but fits him the better for the class he has to address.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 January 1847. · 5 January 1847