Author

Richard Valpy(1754–1836)

Richard Valpy is documented in Fuller’s letters (1818). One work is named, all in Letter to Timothy Fuller, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
ReadMentioned
Present in
Letters
Documented
1818
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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Richard Valpy’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1818Poetical Chronology of Ancient and English HistoryAttested

    “I have been reviewing Valpy's Chronology.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Canton 13 Jany 1818

    Explicit first-person statement 'I have been reviewing Valpy's Chronology'.

When Fuller engaged with Richard Valpy

I. Childhood1record
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Valpy in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1818—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

read
“I have been reviewing Valpy's Chronology.”

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