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Herman Melville is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Horace Greeley, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Typee” would seem, also, to be the record of imaginary adventures by some one who had visited those regions. But it is a very entertaining and pleasing narrative”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Will you send me Typee and Titmarsh's journey. Mr Duyckinck wished me to look at them.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Hudspeth's notes confirm that Melville's Typee was Fuller's subject for an essay in the Tribune on 4 April, and she found it "a very entertaining and pleasing narrative."
“Typee” would seem, also, to be the record of imaginary adventures by some one who had visited those regions. But it is a very entertaining and pleasing narrative”
Fuller, Margaret. "Wiley & Putnam’s Library." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 April 1846. · 4 April 1846