Author
Levi Hedge is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1824–1848). One work is named, most often in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Levi 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.
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, May 21St. 1824
Explicit first-person statement 'I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick'.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“and one by Mr. Hedge of Bangor, exceedingly admired for the felicity of thought and image and the finished beauty of style”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 May 1848. · 4 May 1848