Author

Chauncy Hare Townshend(1798–1868)

Chauncy Hare Townshend is documented in Fuller’s books (1843). One work is named, all in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
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1843
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In Fuller’s words

“Townshend, speaking of the effect of gems on one of his sleep-wakers, said, she loved the diamond so much that she would lean her forehead towards it, whenever it was brought near her.”
Facts in Mesmerism, with Reasons for a Dispassionate Inquiry into It · Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 · 1843

When Fuller engaged with Chauncy Hare Townshend

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
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.

Townshend in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read
“Townshend, speaking of the effect of gems on one of his sleep-wakers, said, she loved the diamond so much that she would lean her forehead towards it, whenever it was brought near her.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller cites 'Townshend' by name in reference to his mesmeric experiments with gems on sleep-wakers.