Author

Johann Caspar Lavater(1741–1801)

Johann Caspar Lavater is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts. No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Translations from German, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Manuscripts
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“p5: 'See / his remarks on this circumstance in his letter / to Lavater.'; p13: 'Intimacy with Lavater and / Basedow. Goethe's journey / in their company'; p17: 'More / Lavater. I cannot see the / bearing of his intimacy so well as of others.”
Notes toward The Life of Goethe

When Fuller engaged with Johann Caspar Lavater

No datable encounters with Lavater, Johann Caspar have been catalogued yet.

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

Documentary evidence

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

Undated

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

n.d.—

Translations from German

p. 53
“He read the Bible diligently also the works of Lavater and Zinzendorf.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from German." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5 (101).

n.d.—

Notes toward The Life of Goethe

p5, p13, p17
“p5: 'See / his remarks on this circumstance in his letter / to Lavater.'; p13: 'Intimacy with Lavater and / Basedow. Goethe's journey / in their company'; p17: 'More / Lavater.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.