Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Thomas Hamilton(1789–1842)

Thomas Hamilton is documented in Fuller’s reading notebooks (1827). One work is named, all in Reading Notebook 1825–1827, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement
ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in
Notebooks
Documented
1827
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 pomp and splendour with which the earthly tabernacle of my grandmother was restored to its kindred elements … Death is an abstraction too pure for the comprehension of a child, and, when, in the gradual dawning of his intellect, it becomes intelligible … / Cyril Thornton.”
The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton · Reading Notebook 1825–1827 · 1827

When Fuller engaged with Thomas Hamilton

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
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.

Hamilton in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1827—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 120
excerpted · analyzed · quoted · readSearch Digital Fuller (page unverified)
“The pomp and splendour with which the earthly tabernacle of my grandmother was restored to its kindred elements … Death is an abstraction too pure for the comprehension of a child, and, when, in the gradual dawning of his intellect, it becomes intelligible … / Cyril Thornton.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Cyril Thornton.' at the end of p. 120.