Author

Francois Huber

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

This author survives here only through the 1852 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled after her death by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

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Confirmed reading

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

  • undatedNew Observations on the Natural History of BeesAttested

    “I read Huber on bees in this way, and the busy insects who began their ingenious labors during the few minutes before sleep buzzed in the dreams of my brief siesta.”

    Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six

    Explicit first-person reading statement: 'I read Huber on bees in this way'.

When Fuller engaged with Francois Huber

No datable encounters with Huber, Francois have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Recollections of Richard F. Fuller

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“I read Huber on bees in this way, and the busy insects who began their ingenious labors during the few minutes before sleep buzzed in the dreams of my brief siesta.”

Fuller, Richard F. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston, 1936.

Inferred "Huber on bees" refers to Francois Huber's well-known treatise on bee natural history Explicit first-person reading statement: 'I read Huber on bees in this way'.