Author

Jonathan Ashley Saxton(1808–1894)Inferred

Jonathan Ashley Saxton is documented in Fuller’s letters (1843). One work is named, all in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

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1843
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In Fuller’s words

“So I did not regard your contempt for the long prosa on Transcendentalism, Progress &c any more than Parker's disgust at Henry Thoreau's pieces.”
"Prophecy — Transcendentalism — Progress," The Dial 2:83-121 · Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Jonathan Ashley Saxton

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
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.

Saxton in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“So I did not regard your contempt for the long prosa on Transcendentalism, Progress &c any more than Parker's disgust at Henry Thoreau's pieces.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Hudspeth identified this as Jonathan Ashley Saxton's "Prophecy-Transcendentalism-Progress," published in the Dial.