Author

Thomas Southwood Smith

Thomas Southwood Smith is documented in Fuller’s published essays (1847). No work is named in the surviving passages, all in Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII., and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Essays
Documented
1847
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In Fuller’s words

“Many years after, reading a pamphlet by Dr. Smith on the same subject, he was much pleased with it, became his friend, and bequeathed his body to his care and use”
Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII. · 1847

When Fuller engaged with Thomas Southwood Smith

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe1record
✦. 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.

1847—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII.”
mentioned2 selected passages
“At their house I became acquainted with Dr. Southwood Smith, the well-known philanthropist. He is at present engaged on the construction of good tenements”
“Many years after, reading a pamphlet by Dr. Smith on the same subject, he was much pleased with it, became his friend, and bequeathed his body to his care and use”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 February 1847.