Author
The Western Messenger is documented in Fuller’s letters (1835–1841). One work is named, most often in Letter to William H. Channing, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.
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 →
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 have a letter from James Clarke enclosing a prospectus of the Western Examiner which he is to assist in editing.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I should like to have y[ou] read a little piece written by me about three years since for the W. Messenger on Bulwer's novels”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Hudspeth identified she reviewed The Last Days of Pompeii in the journal's August 1835 issue.
“There were verses in the W. Messenger, that seemed so”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“Enclosed is a subscription from Mrs Newcomb, Providence, R I, for the W. Messenger this year; will you see that it is forwarded for her?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“to day looking over the books I found a number of the W. Messenger in which you write of Evil”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.