Author

William Paley(1743–1805)

William Paley is documented in Fuller’s letters (1822). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1822
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 →

When Fuller engaged with William Paley

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Paley in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1822—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

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mentioned
“I wished for two books "Bacon's Essays" and "Paleys Internal Evidences" but mother can not find them in either of the bookcases.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.