Author

Massachusetts Quarterly Review

Massachusetts Quarterly Review is documented in Fuller’s letters (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1847
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 Emerson’s letters to Fuller (L-3)

Books Emerson sent or offered, his secondhand reports, and his own references — never counted in Fuller’s totals.

  • 29 August 1847Massachusetts Quarterly Review, forthcomingCircle context · not counted

    Periodical news · Myerson, letter of 29 August 1847 (page locator provisional)

    Emerson's own context; not evidence of Fuller's reading.

In Fuller’s words

“I am glad to hear of the new journal which will answer to a deep want, though I doubt by the list of names you send me, the danger there will not be a sufficient range and diversity of power to make it a fair journal.”
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1847

When Fuller engaged with Massachusetts Quarterly Review

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

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.

1847—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

analyzed
“I am glad to hear of the new journal which will answer to a deep want, though I doubt by the list of names you send me, the danger there will not be a sufficient range and diversity of power to make it a fair journal.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Hudspeth identified Emerson's role in proposing the journal, with Bronson Alcott, W.H.