Author

James Smith and Horace Smith(1779–1849)

James Smith and Horace Smith is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1834–1845). One work is named, most often in Letter to Frederic H. Hedge, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Essays
Documented
1834–1845
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 →

In Fuller’s words

“Eliza, Cary, Proctor, Cunningham, Bowring, Barton, Hazlitt, Elton, Hartley, Coleridge, Talfourd; Soane, Horace Smith, Reynolds, Poole, Clare, and Thomas Benyon”
Thomas Hood. · 1845

When Fuller engaged with James Smith and Horace Smith

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed1record
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Smith in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p213
read
“if by style is meant what might be travestied in the "rejected addresses" as Scott's poetical manner was”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1845—

Thomas Hood.

“Thomas Hood.”
mentioned
“Eliza, Cary, Proctor, Cunningham, Bowring, Barton, Hazlitt, Elton, Hartley, Coleridge, Talfourd; Soane, Horace Smith, Reynolds, Poole, Clare, and Thomas Benyon”

Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 9 August 1845. · 9 August 1845