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William Wetmore Story is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1848–1850). One work is named, most often in Letter to William Wetmore Story, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had William Wetmore Story’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“I have read your poems with love several times, once during the only good day I have had amid the trees and flowers.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence, wth May, 1850
'I have read your poems with love several times' is an explicit first-person reading statement.
“I have read your poems with love several times, once during the only good day I have had amid the trees and flowers. There is not one that bears not its own mark, they are full of tender feeling and fine suggestion, in them aspiration makes melody, and the sorrow is very pure. They do not however seem to me so good as those you read to me written at Sorrento; it seems to me they are not written with as much glow and effusion”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“There was a poem from Mr. Story of Boston, which gave great pleasure”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . XXIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 4 May 1848. · 4 May 1848
“I have read your poems with love several times, once during the only good day I have had amid the trees and flowers.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.