Author

William Johnson Fox

William Johnson Fox is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

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In Fuller’s words

“He has great persuasive power; it is the persuasive power of a mind warmly engaged in seeking truth for itself. He sometimes carries home convictions with great energy, driving in the thought as with golden nails.”
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII. · 1847

When Fuller engaged with William Johnson Fox

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Documentary evidence

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

1847—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII.”
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“He has great persuasive power; it is the persuasive power of a mind warmly engaged in seeking truth for itself.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VII." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 January 1847. · 5 January 1847