“I return Mr Duyckinck's books with thanks.”
Author
Cornelius Mathews(1817–1889)
Cornelius Mathews is documented in Fuller’s letters and books (1846–1847). 4 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
- Engagement
- ExcerptedAnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
- Present in
- Letters · Books
- Documented
- 1846–1847
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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Cornelius Mathews’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- undated(poem on the journalist's vocation)Demonstrated
“A worthy account of the vocation and duties of the journalist, is given by Cornelius Mathews... As shakes the canvass of a thousand ships”
Papers on Literature and Art
Substantial ~41-line verbatim quotation of a Mathews poem on the journalist's vocation.
- undatedMan in the RepublicDemonstrated
“A series of poems, called 'Man in the Republic,' by Cornelius Mathews... To strike or bear, to conquer or to yield / Teach thou! O topmost crown of duty, teach”
Papers on Literature and Art
Extensive ~76-line verbatim quotation of Mathews's poem 'Man in the Republic'.
- undatedWitchcraft, a tragedyAttested
“Witchcraft, a tragedy,' brought out successfully upon the boards at Philadelphia, we have read, and it is a work of strong and majestic lineaments”
Papers on Literature and Art
Explicit statement: '"Witchcraft, a tragedy"... we have read, and it is a work of strong and majestic lineaments'.
In Fuller’s words
“As the tragedy of Witchcraft has not been published, nor is likely to be, while the dramatic interests of the country are unprotected by any copyright law, it may not be amiss to afford the reader a further opportunity of passing his judgment on this production by a few extracts, and the publication of a contemporary comment on the play, with a letter in the Evening Post, giving an account of its first performance.”
When Fuller engaged with Cornelius Mathews
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Mathews in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
1846—
Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck
p221excerpted · analyzed · read3 selected passages
“Will Mr Duyckinck have the kindness to see whether the extract from Mr Mathews's poem 'The Journalist,' is correctly printed?”
Hudspeth identified the poem appeared in Poems on Man, in His Various Aspects under the American Republic (1843).
“Mr Greeley is not willing to insert the letter on copyright. It is long and the paper much crowded, beside he does not incline to publish what has appeared previously in other journals.”
Inferred Fuller's judgment that "the letter is good" demonstrates she has read and approved of Mathews's "John Smith, a Convicted Felon, upon the Copyright," identified by Hudspeth as appearing in Arcturus (April 1842) Catalogue note: a standalone essay or article rather than a book; retained under the author's record but excluded from the book titles list.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
1846—
Papers on Literature and Art
p133excerpted · analyzed · quoted · read2 selected passages
“A series of poems, called "Man in the Republic," by Cornelius Mathews, deserves a higher need of sympathy than it has received. The thoughts and views are strong and noble”
“As the tragedy of Witchcraft has not been published, nor is likely to be, while the dramatic interests of the country are unprotected by any copyright law, it may not be amiss to afford the reader a further opportunity of passing his judgment on this production by a few extracts, and the publication of a contemporary comment on the play, with a letter in the Evening Post, giving an account of its first performance.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.
1847—
Letter to Evert A. Duyckinck
excerpted · analyzed · read
“I have just seen in the 'Literary World' a notice of Mr Griswold's attack on my judgment of 'Witchcraft.' [...] My essay was translated for 'La Revue Independante' but without any of the quotations in verse, as the translators did not feel able to render them adequately.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
n.d.—
American Literature
“American Literature”analyzed
“A series of poems, called '' Man in the Republic.'' by Corneeserves a higher meed of sympathy than it has received.”
Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p809