Author

John Murray(1778–1843)

John Murray is documented in Fuller’s letters (1835–1848). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1835–1848

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

“there is a fine article on Coleridge which I daresay you have read, if you have not—do for my sake and if you have sympathize with me. There is some ignorance and much partial judgement but also many brilliant, feeling remarks and interesting particulars— Note the parallel between Coleridges conversational powers and those of Sir J. Mackintosh Also Coleridge's one sided critique on Faust and above all a piece new to me entitled "The Pang more sharp than all”

"The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge" [review article], Quarterly Review, vol. 52: 1–38 · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1835

When Fuller engaged with John Murray

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

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.

Murray in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1835—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p220

analyzed · read

“there is a fine article on Coleridge which I daresay you have read, if you have not—do for my sake and if you have sympathize with me.”

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 Fuller has read a "fine article on Coleridge" in the Quarterly Review; Hudspeth identified "The Poetical Works of S.

1848—

Letter to Emelyn Story

mentioned

“the Murray guide book mob fight shy, which makes it quite delightful for me to be here now.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller refers to 'the Murray guide book mob' — tourists who follow John Murray's Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy (1843) or Northern Italy (1842). Fuller's phrase implies both familiarity with the guidebook (she knows the type it attracts) and self-positioning as a non-tourist insider.