Author

Henry More(1614–1687)

Henry More is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1840–1841). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedAnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Manuscripts
Documented: 1840–1841

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 Henry More’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

Dated
1840Cupid's ConflictAttested
“Arrived safe 5th inst. the beautiful poem and the letter. About the former I think it shall be published, but have as yet thought chiefly of my own pleasure in reading it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 7th Novr 1840.
Explicit 'my own pleasure in reading it' referencing More's poem just received.

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.

22 April 1841Henry MoreCircle context · not counted
Dial editorial proposal · Rusk 2:394–395
Emerson proposes reprinting More in the Dial. Corroborating context for Fuller's 7 November 1840 More engagement; not a new Fuller record.

In Fuller’s words

“Arrived safe 5th inst. the beautiful poem and the letter. About the former I think it shall be published, but have as yet thought chiefly of my own pleasure in reading it.”

"Cupid's Conflict" · Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1840

When Fuller engaged with Henry More

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist3records

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1840—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p183

analyzed · read

“Arrived safe 5th inst. the beautiful poem and the letter. About the former I think it shall be published, but have as yet thought chiefly of my own pleasure in reading it.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Hudspeth identified this as Henry More's 'Cupid's Conflict.' Fuller describes reading it for 'my own pleasure' and deciding to publish it in the Dial (it appeared in Dial 2 (October 1841):137-48).

1841—

On Dreams and Sorrow

excerpted · analyzed · readManuscript page

“Silent Secesse, vast Solitude / Deep-searching thoughts often renewed, / Stiffe conflict 'gainst importunate vice; / That daily doth the Soul entice / From her high throne of circling light / To plunge her in infernal night.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Dreams and Sorrow." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box 3, Folder 132.

Inferred Fuller transcribes approximately 20 lines of verse (in old-fashioned orthography with capitalised Soul, Spenserian-adjacent stanza form) as a kind of epigraph or motto to her personal meditation.

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p17

mentioned

“Philo-Judaeus, Swedenborg, Origen, Fenelon, Boethius, Madame Guyon, Mirandola, Dante, Petrarca, More, Cudworth, Norris.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).