Author

Henry Vaughan(1621–1695)

Henry Vaughan is documented in Fuller’s published essays and journals (1839–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Journal April 1839, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.

Engagement: ExcerptedQuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Essays · Journals
Documented: 1839–1845

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 Henry Vaughan’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

undatedEarly Rising and PrayerDemonstrated
“Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan 1695. When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · by Henry Vaughan 1695
Substantial quoted verse passage from Vaughan's poem copied into notebook.

In Fuller’s words

“Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan / 1695. / When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave / To do the like; our bodies but forerun / The spirits duty; true hearts spread and heave / Unto their God, as flowers do to the sun; / Give Him thy first thoughts then, so shall thou keep / Him company all day, and in Him sleep.”

"Rules and Lessons" [Silex Scintillans or Thalia Rediviva] · Journal April 1839 · 1839

When Fuller engaged with Henry Vaughan

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1836

1844

1846

1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Vaughan in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1839—

Journal April 1839

p61

excerpted · readManuscript page

“Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan / 1695.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).

Inferred Fuller heads this section 'Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan / 1695.' She then copies four stanzas of verse beginning 'When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave.' The poem is Vaughan's 'Rules and Lessons' (first published in Silex Scintillans, 1650, expanded 1655). Fuller's date '1695' is the year of Vaughan's death, not the poem's publication — possibly she is noting from a biographical source.

The text closely matches 'Rules and Lessons' as printed in standard editions of Vaughan's works.

1845—

Review.

“Review.”

quoted · read

“They are all gone into a world of light, And I alone sit lingering here; Their very memory is fair and bright, And my sad thoughts doth clear.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Review." New-York Daily Tribune, 16 January 1845. · 16 January 1845