Author

Charles James Lever(1806–1872)

Charles James Lever is documented in Fuller’s letters (1842). One work is named, all in Letter to Margarett C. Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1842

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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 →

When Fuller engaged with Charles James Lever

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist2records
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.

Lever in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1842—

Letter to Margarett C. Fuller

p33
read
“Don't fail to write me all about yourself, and send back Charles O Malley”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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

1839—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p309
read
“Princess Demidoff; Harry Lorrequer; an absurd brood of fops; many lovely children”

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 Margaret Fuller references "Harry Lorrequer," likely identifying a contemporary figure with the novel's titular character.