Author
Thomas Jefferson is documented in Fuller’s letters, published essays, and manuscripts (1834–1845). One work is named, most often in America and the American People . . ., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 Thomas Jefferson’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 have read all Jefferson's letters, the North American, the daily papers, &c., without end.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Groton — Spring has come
Explicit 'I have read all Jefferson's letters, the North American, the daily papers.'
“I have read recently all Mr Jefferson's writings all which I could understand… Jefferson's Works Remains p.215. Letter to a young man on the subject of education… vol IV p 94… vol IV p 321.”
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 have read recently all Mr Jefferson's writings all which I could understand… Jefferson's Works Remains p.215. Letter to a young man on the subject of education… vol IV p 94… vol IV p 321.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“When the excellent Jefferson, before visiting Europe, said it was worth going to America merely to see Harper’s Ferry, he might have been told”
“His sketches of persons are in the same style as all the rest—they are tolerable likenesses, rather flattered than otherwise, not only in the cases of Jefferson and Calhoun”
Fuller, Margaret. "America and the American People . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 December 1845.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Had I but been educated in the Knowledge of such men as Jefferson, Franklin, Rush:- I have learned now to know them particularly.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller names Jefferson alongside Franklin and Rush as "great men" of American history she has been studying, describing an intellectual transformation: "I have learned now to know them particularly." The specific work(s) are not named; Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1787) and published correspondence were available sources.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I have read all Jefferson's letters, the North American, the daily papers, &c., without end.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred This entry pertains to Margaret Fuller's engagement with Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1829). Fuller mentions reading "all Jefferson's letters, the North American, the daily papers, &c., without end," indicating a comprehensive immersion in Jefferson's published writings and correspondence found within this volume.