Author

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)(1787–1874)Inferred

Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall) is documented in Fuller’s published essays and manuscripts (1845). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in On Conversation with R.H. Dana, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in
Essays · Manuscripts
Documented
1845

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

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

“Eliza, Cary, Proctor, Cunningham, Bowring, Barton, Hazlitt, Elton, Hartley, Coleridge, Talfourd; Soane, Horace Smith, Reynolds, Poole, Clare, and Thomas Benyon”
Thomas Hood. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall)

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)1record
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—

Thomas Hood.

“Thomas Hood.”
mentioned
“Eliza, Cary, Proctor, Cunningham, Bowring, Barton, Hazlitt, Elton, Hartley, Coleridge, Talfourd; Soane, Horace Smith, Reynolds, Poole, Clare, and Thomas Benyon”

Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 August 1845. · 9 August 1845

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

On Conversation with R.H. Dana

p2
analyzed · readManuscript page
“It is to music what Barry Cornwall's verse or [illegible] is to poetry. It is completely modern, the music of the age of consciousness.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Conversation with R.H. Dana." Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.

1852—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p247
analyzed · read
“It is to music what Barry Cornwall's verses and Talfourd's Ion are to poetry.”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.

Inferred This entry addresses a work identified only as "Barry Cornwall's verses," a pen name for Bryan Waller Procter.