Author

Horace Greeley(1811–1872)

Horace Greeley is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IV., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
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Essays
Documented
1846

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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When Fuller engaged with Horace Greeley

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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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.

1846—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IV.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IV.”
mentioned
“Mr. Greeley, the more I look at this subject, the more I must maintain in opposition to your views”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . IV." New-York Daily Tribune, 5 November 1846. · 5 November 1846

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

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“Margaret determined, in the autumn of 1844, to accept a liberal offer of Messrs. Greeley and McElrath, to become a constant contributor to the New York Tribune.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

This entry identifies Margaret Fuller's formative role as literary critic for Horace Greeley's New-York Daily Tribune from December 1844 to August 1846.