Author

John Foster(1770–1843)

John Foster is documented in Fuller’s journals (1834). One work is named, all in Journal 1833–1834, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Journals
Documented
1834
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

“I see Foster in his Essay on decision of character, mentions its developement in Carl von Moor in terms which evince the strong feeling of reality horror and exaltation which this tragedy must produce on all who have deep hearts however dissimilar the texture of their minds. the generous earl ^mentions^ of Charles von Moor in his Essay on Decision of Character [insertion above: p 101] as of a real personage”
An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance; to which is added, A Discourse on the Communication of Christianity to the People of Hindostan — OR (more likely here) Essays in a Series of Letters, incl. “On Decision of Character” · Journal 1833–1834 · 1834

When Fuller engaged with John Foster

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Foster in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Journal 1833–1834

p50
read
“I see Foster in his Essay on decision of character, mentions its developement in Carl von Moor in terms which evince the strong feeling of reality horror and exaltation which this tragedy must produce on all who have deep hearts however dissimilar the texture of their minds.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).