Author
Sir William Temple is documented in Fuller’s letters (1828). One work is named, all in Letter to Susan Prescott, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
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 Sir William Temple’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 am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 3 January 1828
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re636 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-01 l.2221-2224, letter dated Jan 3 1828; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Explicit first-person statement 'I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure'.
“I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure. Such enlarged views are rarely to be found combined with such acuteness and discrimination. His style, though diffuse, is never verbose or overloaded, but beautifully expressive... He affected not Augustan niceties, but his expressions are free and appropriate.”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure. Such enlarged views are rarely to be found combined with such acuteness and discrimination.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Passages surviving only in the posthumous Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, compiled by Emerson, Channing, and Clarke.
“I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure. Such enlarged views are rarely to be found com- bined with such acuteness and discrimination.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.