Author

The Present

The Present is documented in Fuller’s letters (1843). No work is named in the surviving passages, most often in Letter to William H. Channing, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedMentioned
Present in: Letters
Documented: 1843

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

“In your distant sphere you may perhaps chance to meet those who might desire and be benefitted by a periodical such as this whose prospectus I inclose. Its promise, though large, will I am sure, from the character of the editor, be borne out by its performance.”

Letter to Marianne Mackintosh Clarke · 1843

When Fuller engaged with The Present

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

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.

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Letter to William H. Channing

p141

mentioned

“If the first number of your periodical is sent out here, and has due chance to get read, this people will take it, if it has anything for them that suits their needs...”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Fuller refers to "your periodical" in a letter written before its first issue appeared; Hudspeth identified this is Channing's new journal The Present (first issue 15 September 1843).

1843—

Letter to Marianne Mackintosh Clarke

p102

analyzed

“In your distant sphere you may perhaps chance to meet those who might desire and be benefitted by a periodical such as this whose prospectus I inclose.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Fuller encloses a prospectus and endorses it warmly, referring only to "a periodical such as this" and "its promise"; Hudspeth identified this as William Henry Channing's The Present, a Transcendentalist journal founded in September 1843.