Author

Henry Home, Lord Kames(1696–1782)

Henry Home, Lord Kames is documented in Fuller’s letters (1825). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1825
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 Henry Home, Lord Kames’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
  • 1825Elements of CriticismAttested

    “I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton January 5th. 1825

    Same explicit 'I study this term' statement naming Kames's Criticisms.

When Fuller engaged with Henry Home, Lord Kames

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.

Home in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1825—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

p145
read
“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.