Author

Samuel Gardner Drake(1798–1875)

Samuel Gardner Drake is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Read while writing Summer on the Lakes

Named among the books Fuller consulted for her western journey, and discussed in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. The Harvard College Library ledger dates the loan to the winter after the journey, while the book was being written.

Harvard College Library loan

  • 1843 Sep 28·Drake's Indians.shelf Toower

Charged out of Gore Hall on the card of Richard Frederick Fuller, Margaret's brother and then a Harvard senior; women could not borrow in their own name. The loan falls after the western journey, while Summer on the Lakes was being written. Household access, not proof of her reading — not counted toward engagements. The full ledger →

Engagement
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1843
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 →

When Fuller engaged with Samuel Gardner Drake

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
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.

Drake in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“Most of the anecdotes may be found again in Drake's Book of the Indians; which will afford a useful magazine to their future historian.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.