Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Samuel Ferguson(1810–1886)

Samuel Ferguson is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1836). One work is named, all in Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedReadMentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1836
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“The forging of the Anchor - by S. Ferguson. / Come see the Dolphin's Anchor forged; tis at a white heat now; / The bellows ceased, the flames decreased [...]”
The Forging of the Anchor · Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837 · 1836

When Fuller engaged with Samuel Ferguson

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.

Ferguson in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p116–p119
excerpted · readManuscript page
“The forging of the Anchor - by S. Ferguson. / Come see the Dolphin's Anchor forged; tis at a white heat now; / The bellows ceased, the flames decreased [...]”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).