Author

The Christian Examiner

The Christian Examiner is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1834–1839). One work is named, most often in Letter to Almira P. Barlow, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters · Manuscripts
Documented
1834–1839
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

“does the Author of the "Lecture delivered with much applause before the Brooklyn Lyceum", despise and wish to cast off the Author of "Essays contumeliously rejected by that respected publication, the Christian Examiner?”
Letter to Almira P. Barlow · 1834

When Fuller engaged with The Christian Examiner

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed2records
IV. Transcendentalist2records
V. New York
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.

(periodical) in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Letter to Almira P. Barlow

p198
read
“does the Author of the "Lecture delivered with much applause before the Brooklyn Lyceum", despise and wish to cast off the Author of "Essays contumeliously rejected by that respected publication, the Christian Examiner?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names 'the Christian Examiner'as the journal that rejected her essays.

1834—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p213
read
“I am much pleased with it myself and have read it twice”

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.

1838—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p337
read
“Have you read our friend Mr Bowen's Berkeley?— Dont you think Mr Bartold's Carlyle much better than yours?”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p37
read
“one by T. Parker on Ackermann's Platonism of Christianity in the last Christian Examiner both of which I think would interest you.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Notes on Books, Children, and Faith

p8
“Two fine papers upon Herder in the Xn Examiner by the Revd G Ripley”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Books, Children, and Faith." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller names the periodical explicitly as 'the Xn Examiner' without citing a specific article title beyond the Ripley essays on Herder (cataloged separately as R03). The periodical reference is listed separately per Rule 1b. The Christian Examiner was the leading Unitarian theological journal, published in Boston 1824–1869.