Author

Robert Nicol

Robert Nicol is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845–1846). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Prince’s Poems., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Books · Essays
Documented
1845–1846
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

“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thorn find enough in the hedge-rows that border their every day path; — they need not steal an entrance to padlocked flower gardens, nor orchards guarded by man-traps and spring-guns.”
Poets of the People · 1846

When Fuller engaged with Robert Nicol

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

Prince’s Poems.

“Prince’s Poems.”
mentioned
“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thom find enough in the hedgerows that border their everyday path”

Fuller, Margaret. "Prince’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 August 1845. · 13 August 1845

1846—

Poets of the People

“Poets of the People”
mentioned
“Elliott, Nicol, Prince, and Thorn find enough in the hedge-rows that border their every day path; — they need not steal an entrance to padlocked flower gardens, nor orchards guarded by man-traps and spring-guns.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p188

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p188; page given is to the 1869 reprint.