Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Richard HildrethInferred

Richard Hildreth is documented in Fuller’s letters (1840). One work is named, all in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
Read
Present in
Letters
Documented
1840
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 Richard Hildreth’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
  • 1840A Letter to Andrews Norton, on Miracles as the Foundation of Religious FaithAttested

    “Also that a new pamphlet cometh forth next week of which I have read some pages whilk seemed, to use Scotch Caution, wee! aneugh.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 12th April 1840

    "of which I have read some pages" is an explicit first-person reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with Richard Hildreth

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Hildreth in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. II: 1839-1841

letter_0258.txt, line 5065-5066; note 8
read
“Also that a new pamphlet cometh forth next week of which I have read some pages whilk seemed, to use Scotch Caution, wee! aneugh.”

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

Inferred Footnote identifies the anonymous pamphlet Fuller read as by Richard Hildreth "of which I have read some pages" is an explicit first-person reading statement.