Author

John Howard Payne(1791–1852)Inferred

John Howard Payne is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1818–1825). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Manuscripts
Documented: 1818–1825

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 John Howard Payne

I. Childhood1record

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.

Payne in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1818—

On John Vandenhoff's Acting

analyzed · readManuscript page

“The affected idiocy of Brutus, the real insanity of Virginius he acted with considerable talent”

Fuller, Margaret. "On John Vandenhoff's Acting." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 123.

Inferred In Payne's tragedy, Lucius Junius Brutus deliberately feigns madness/idiocy to survive under the tyrannical Tarquinius Superbus, then assumes his true heroic character to lead the expulsion of the Tarquins.

1825—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

p149

quoted · read

“Through pleasures and palaces though we may roam / Be it ever so humble theres no place like home.”

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