Author
George Palmer Putnam is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to James Nathan, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
“Such is the title of a volume just issued from the press; a grand title, which suggests the epic poet or the philosopher. The purpose of the work, however, is modest. It is merely a compilation, from which those who have lived at some distance from the great highway may get answers to their questions, as to events and circumstances which may have escaped them.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Such is the title of a volume just issued from the press; a grand title, which suggests the epic poet or the philosopher. The purpose of the work, however, is modest.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“here at night comes a thick book named "American Facts" and forbidding me to look at that best fact the Moon.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
“By Geo. P. Putnam, of Wiley & Putnam—London, 1845. “American Facts.” New-York Daily Tribune, 19 May 1845, p. 1.”
Fuller, Margaret. "‘American Facts.’." New-York Daily Tribune, 19 May 1845. · 19 May 1845
“Such an attempt was made in the Phi Beta oration of Mr. Putnam, a work where well-intentioned mediocrity met with vast applause from those on the same level.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from the German." New-York Daily Tribune, 14 March 1845. · 14 March 1845
“Two such dissipated days, and here at night comes a thick book, named "American Facts" and forbidding me to look at that best fact, the Moon. Help me, my friend!”
Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.
Inferred Fuller does not name the author or compiler; the identification is based solely on the unique title. Fuller's role at the New-York Tribune, where she frequently received books for review, further supports this identification.