1822—
Letter to Timothy Fuller
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“I had begun Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Author
Adam Smith(1723–1790)
Adam Smith is documented in Fuller’s letters (1822). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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- 1822
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 →
Confirmed reading
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Adam Smith’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
- Dated
- 1822An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of NationsAttested
“I had begun "Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 3o Dec 1822
Explicit first-person statement 'I had begun "Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it'.
When Fuller engaged with Adam Smith
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Smith in Fuller’s reading world
Documentary evidence
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.