Author
Charles King Newcomb is documented in Fuller’s letters (1841–1842). 4 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Charles K. Newcomb, 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 →
“On a third reading I am more than ever sensible that you must learn the art of choosing among your thoughts, and prune as well as water your vine… its redundant and involved style displeases, and hides, not drapes the thought.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“On return you must send me the ballad, The Cave Myths which is a grand conception and of which I often think, and the little poem of which you spoke.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred | Fuller explicitly names Newcomb's unpublished poem 'The Cave Myths' by title and calls it 'a grand conception.' She also mentions an unnamed 'little poem.'
“I finished the 1st no Günderode last night, it will be out early next week. The two vols are to be translated in four numbers.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“I will tell you just what I think of the new Dolon. I hope you will keep the other two just as they are. Sometime, I want to hear them read again.”
Hudspeth identified Newcomb left the manuscript with Emerson, impressing both him and other members of the Transcendentalist circle.
“On a third reading I am more than ever sensible that you must learn the art of choosing among your thoughts, and prune as well as water your vine… its redundant and involved style displeases, and hides, not drapes the thought.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.