Author

Charles Chauncy Emerson(1808–1836)

Charles Chauncy Emerson is documented in Fuller’s letters (1843). One work is named, all in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Charles Chauncy Emerson’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
  • 1840NotesAttested

    “I have been reading over the "Notes" which please me more and more.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Saturday eveg [25 April] 1840

    Explicit first-person 'I have been reading over the Notes' tied to a specific date.

When Fuller engaged with Charles Chauncy Emerson

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Emerson in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p137
analyzed · read
“Notes from the journal of a Scholar" I had seen before, it is good to have it in my own possession.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Fuller refers to "Notes from the journal of a Scholar," naming the title explicitly; Hudspeth identified this as Charles Chauncy Emerson's "Notes from the Journal of a Scholar.