Author
Sampson Reed is documented in Fuller’s letters. One work is named, all in Letter to unknown (possibly Elizabeth Peabody), and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
No datable encounters with Reed, Sampson have been catalogued yet.
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Aphorisms from Reed”
Inferred The ledger entry "Aphorisms from Reed" most likely refers to selections Fuller extracted from writings by Sampson Reed (1800–1880), the American Swedenborgian philosopher whose Observations on the Growth of the Mind contains extended aphoristic passages. Reed was a key figure in the Fuller–Clarke Transcendentalist circle.
“Aphorisms from Reed”
Inferred The ledger entry "Aphorisms from Reed" most likely refers to selections Fuller extracted from writings by Sampson Reed (1800–1880), the American Swedenborgian philosopher whose Observations on the Growth of the Mind contains extended aphoristic passages.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.