Author

John Selden(1584–1654)

John Selden is documented in Fuller’s journals (1836). One work is named, all in Journal December 1836, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedQuotedMentioned
Present in: Journals
Documented: 1836

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

When Fuller engaged with John Selden

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.

Selden in Fuller’s reading world

Table Talk1836

Documentary evidence

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

1836—

Journal December 1836

p34–35

excerpted · quotedManuscript page

“There is more weighty bullion sense in Selden's Table-talk, than I can found in the same number of pages of any uninspired writer.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.