Author

John Sullivan Dwight(1813–1893)

John Sullivan Dwight is documented in Fuller’s letters (1837–1840). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Caroline Sturgis, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1837–1840

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 John Sullivan Dwight’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
1839Review of Schiller's William TellAttested
“Have read J. Dwight's notes (which are excellent;)”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
"Have read J. Dwight's notes" is an explicit reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with John Sullivan Dwight

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist3records

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.

Dwight in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p297

analyzed · read

“Yes! John Dwight's translations are beautiful—wonderful even!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names "John Dwight's translations" of Schiller and praises them as "beautiful—wonderful even!" Hudspeth identified that Dwight was preparing Select Minor Poems, which Fuller had read in manuscript form; Dwight had also published his version of Schiller's "Das Lied von der Glocke" in American Monthly Magazine.

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p37

analyzed · read

“Have read J. Dwight's notes (which are excellent;)”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p183

read

“I sent "Nature," (and lamented I had not your book proper for the occasion) John Dwight's volume and "the Dial.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Hudspeth identified this as 'Dwight's volume was his Select Minor Poems, Translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller, vol. 2 of Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature, ed. George Ripley (Boston, 1838).'