Author
Jones Very is documented in Fuller’s letters and manuscripts (1839). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Jones Very’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Mr Very's sonnets and pieces, Jane's letters, the Stirlings in two Blackwoods”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
Continuation of the same explicit 'read' list sentence naming Very's sonnets.
“I have been reading Mr Very's Hamlet. I find excellent things there and its tone is very noble.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 1839
"I have been reading Mr Very's Hamlet" is an explicit, dated reading statement.
Books Emerson sent or offered, his secondhand reports, and his own references — never counted in Fuller’s totals.
Manuscripts promised to Fuller · Myerson, letter of 9 November 1838 (page locator provisional)
Manuscript, not a published work. Earlier event related to the 1839 Essays on Hamlet records (re442, re443).
“I have been reading Mr Very's Hamlet. I find excellent things there and its tone is very noble. But the subject seems rather probed at an inquiring distance than grasped, and yet there is an attempt at mastery.”
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 been reading Mr Very's Hamlet. I find excellent things there and its tone is very noble.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“All the reading I did was occasionally when lying down in day time Mr Very's sonnets and pieces, Jane's letters, the Stirlings in two Blackwoods and little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller names "Mr Very's sonnets and pieces" as leisure reading while resting during the day, referring to manuscript poems that Emerson had shared with her and that she also references in her Hamlet essay (Letter 207); these poems were later published in Essays and Poems (1839), edited by Emerson.
“No monotony in God, apropos to Jones Very, - See the leaf, the ripple, none of your sing song in his style. (God's!)”
Fuller, Margaret. "On Poesy, Love, and Dreams." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1450.
Inferred Fuller mentions Jones Very by name but cites no specific title. She says 'No monotony in God, apropos to Jones Very — See the leaf, the ripple, none of your sing song in his style.' This most likely refers to Very's Essays and Poems (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1839), edited by Emerson, the only book-length publication of Very's work in his lifetime.