Author

Frederic Henry Hedge(1805–1890)

Frederic Henry Hedge is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1834–1848). 5 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Manuscripts
Documented: 1834–1848

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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Frederic Henry Hedge’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1834Pretensions of Phrenology ExaminedAttested
“Mr Robinson brought me your article on Phrenology as "capital—logical, pungent, beautiful style”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
Specific evaluative reaction ('capital—logical, pungent, beautiful style') to a named article implies direct reading, consistent with the rest of the letter's reading report.

In Fuller’s words

“The subject was "what part shall the scholar take in the contest between Conservatism and Reform?" And Waldo said he never saw the root of every thing cut away with such sweetness nor any thing to surpass the easy elegance with which he poised himself in the air after taking away all possible foot hold. [...] The oration will be printed, I hope, and you will read”

"Conservatism and Reform" · Letter to William H. Channing · 1841

When Fuller engaged with Frederic Henry Hedge

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed3records

IV. Transcendentalist2records

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.

Hedge in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p213

analyzed · read

“Mr Robinson brought me your article on Phrenology as "capital—logical, pungent, beautiful style and what not! He said you "were becoming one of the first writers of the day"...”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller has read Hedge's article "Pretensions of Phrenology Examined" twice and praises its style as "logical, pungent, beautiful." Hudspeth identified the publication as Christian Examiner 17 (November 1834):249–69, a review of Spurzheim's work on phrenology.

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p215

analyzed · read

“begin to understand the meaning of certain critiques in your article on Schiller”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 26 December 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 215–217. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller refers to "your article on Schiller," which Hudspeth identified as Hedge's favorable review of Carlyle's Life of Friedrich Schiller in the Christian Examiner.

1834—

Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections

p20, p26

analyzed · readManuscript page

“8th March Henry Hedge on the perfectibility of the human race — I do not think he allows quite enough for the reaction of institutions on the publick mind… H. Hedge on Swedenborg.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

The perfectibility article may be an unidentified early piece; the Swedenborg essay may be an unpublished or limited-circulation essay. Fuller names Frederic Henry Hedge (1805–1890) twice in connection with two essays: (1) 'on the perfectibility of the human race' — this is not Hedge's famous 1833 Christian Examiner article on Coleridge; it may be an unpublished lecture or essay Fuller read in manuscript, or an article in a periodical not yet identified; (2) 'on Swedenborg' — likewise unidentified in published form.

1841—

Letter to William H. Channing

p227

analyzed

“The subject was "what part shall the scholar take in the contest between Conservatism and Reform?" And Waldo said he never saw the root of every thing cut away with such sweetness nor any thing to surpass the easy elegance with which he poised himself in the air after taking away all possible foot hold.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Hudspeth identified it as Hedge's 'Conservatism and Reform,' published in Boston in 1843, later reprinted in Martin Luther and Other Essays (Roberts Brothers, 1888, pp. 129–65).

1842—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p106

analyzed · read

“I wish your printed missive had been accompanied by a few lines from your 'kylevise pen'... I like yours, though I think it gives the idea of a greater man than he was...”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

1848—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p54

mentioned

“I have reed a Tribune which contains a short notice of yr book, speaking favorably of its prospects and "with high consideration", of you”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the book is Hedge's Prose Writers of Germany, an anthology of German prose with translations and biographical introductions.