Author

John Randolph (of Roanoke)(1773–1833)

John Randolph (of Roanoke) is documented in Fuller’s letters (1820). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement: Mentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1820

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In Fuller’s words

“I should like to see Mr Randolph His speeches are very keen, witty (tho' satirical), and eloquent I hope you will send us all his speeches this winter, my dear Sir I should be charmed to read them”

Letter to Timothy Fuller · 1820

When Fuller engaged with John Randolph (of Roanoke)

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1820—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

mentioned

“I should like to see Mr Randolph His speeches are very keen, witty (tho' satirical), and eloquent I hope you will send us all his speeches this winter, my dear Sir I should be charmed to read them”

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

Inferred Fuller expresses her desire to read the speeches of John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833), the Virginia congressman famous for his oratory in the U.S. She has apparently heard summaries or descriptions of his speeches, which she characterizes as "very keen, witty (tho' satirical), and eloquent," and asks her father to send them to her.