Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre(1737–1814)Inferred

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is documented in Fuller’s letters (1833). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Letter to James F. Clarke, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement
QuotedReadMentioned
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Letters
Documented
1833
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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

“I often think if writing and talking people could act sincerely on St Pierres declaration 'that his thoughts were unfinished but that if other minds should by his endeavor be aided to superior conceptions he should be satisfied”
Letter to James F. Clarke · 1833

When Fuller engaged with Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
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.

1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p205
quoted · read
“I often think if writing and talking people could act sincerely on St Pierres declaration 'that his thoughts were unfinished but that if other minds should by his endeavor be aided to superior conceptions he should be satisfied”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller paraphrases Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's declaration about offering unfinished thoughts in hopes of aiding readers to superior conceptions, a sentiment characteristic of the prefaces in his major philosophical work Études de la Nature, which Fuller approves of and applies as a standard for conversation and writing.