Author
Benjamin Rush is documented in Fuller’s letters. No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 Rush, Benjamin 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.
“Had I but been educated in the Knowledge of such men as Jefferson, Franklin, Rush:- I have learned now to know them particularly.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Benjamin Rush (1746–1813), physician, reformer, and signer of the Declaration of Independence, published medical works and reform essays; the specific title Fuller read is not named.