Author

ErasmusInferred

Erasmus is documented in Fuller’s letters (1845). One work is named, all in Letter to James Nathan, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement: QuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1845

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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

“But it may be that "honors will change manners" as the proverb threatens, the rather as I can be of no use to him, am connected with a paper of the hostile party”

Adagia · Letter to James Nathan · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Erasmus

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.

Erasmus in Fuller’s reading world

AdagiaInferred1845

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Letter to James Nathan

p133

quoted · read

“But it may be that "honors will change manners" as the proverb threatens, the rather as I can be of no use to him, am connected with a paper of the hostile party”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller labels this a "proverb"—"Honores mutant mores" ("Honors change manners/customs")—a standard Latin proverb widely circulated in English from the early modern period and recorded in collections such as Erasmus's Adagia.