Author

Samuel Parr

Samuel Parr is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in The North American Review., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
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Essays
Documented
1845
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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

“Dr. Parr was wont to say that they were certainly cracked, but that the crack let in light. Such notions, however, cannot long be indulged to excess with impunity”
The North American Review. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Samuel Parr

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

1845—

The North American Review.

“The North American Review.”
quoted · read
“Dr. Parr was wont to say that they were certainly cracked, but that the crack let in light. Such notions, however, cannot long be indulged to excess with impunity”

Fuller, Margaret. "The North American Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 January 1845. · 13 January 1845