Author

Francis Lieber (Franz Lieber)(1800–1872)

Francis Lieber (Franz Lieber) is documented in Fuller’s letters (1835). One work is named, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1835
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

“And speaking of Niagara I see your friend Dr Lieber's book much abused in the last N. E. Mag— Literary coxcomb is the best name they can afford him.”
Letters to a Gentleman in Germany · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1835

When Fuller engaged with Francis Lieber (Franz Lieber)

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
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.

Lieber in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1835—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p221
read
“And speaking of Niagara I see your friend Dr Lieber's book much abused in the last N. E. Mag— Literary coxcomb is the best name they can afford him.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To James F. Clarke, 1 February 1835." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 219–222. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Mag," which Hudspeth identified as Francis Lieber's “Letters to a Gentleman in Germany”.