Author

Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (Prince)(1785–1871)

Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (Prince) is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1834–1845). 4 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Almira P. Barlow, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Books · Essays
Documented: 1834–1845

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 →

In Fuller’s words

“I read his Tutti Frutti while at N.; that and some particulars told me by an English gentleman who lent it me have rather lowered my opinion of him— Still I would give much to see him and should like you to read Tutti— The journey among the Riesengebirge and account of his ascent in the Balloon struck me particularly.”

Tutti Frutti: Aus den Papieren des Verstorbenen [Tutti Frutti: From the Papers of the Deceased] · Letter to James F. Clarke · 1834

When Fuller engaged with Hermann Ludwig Heinrich von Pückler-Muskau (Prince)

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed3records

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York2records

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.

Pückler-Muskau in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1834—

Letter to Almira P. Barlow

p199

read

“He assured me that the German Prince was an ignorant pretender, in the face of my assurances that I had read and greatly admired his writings;”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Hudspeth identified the reference and note that his Briefe eines Verstorbenen was published in German (1830–32) and translated into English by Sarah Austin; Fuller may have read either version.

1834—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p207

analyzed · read

“I read his Tutti Frutti while at N.; that and some particulars told me by an English gentleman who lent it me have rather lowered my opinion of him— Still I would give much to see him and should like you to read Tutti— The journey among the Riesengebirge and account of his ascent in the Balloon struck me particularly.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To James F. Clarke, 28 September 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 206–208. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1834—

Letter to Almira P. Barlow

p210

read

“The German Prince's new work, "Tutti Frutti" I would mention among the noteworthy.”

Fuller, Margaret. "To Almira P. Barlow, 6 October 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 209–210. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p297

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“I have never heard you mention the travels of the German Prince if you have never read them I will bring them you; the book is one of my especial favorites and would last you a long while.”

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

1839—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p60

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“I send you my favorite Prince, as I believe you do not own him, and I thot you might like to read about his pictures, castles &c again.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Fuller sends Sturgis "my favorite Prince"—as Hudspeth identified as Hermann Pückler-Muskau's Tutti-Frutti, a miscellaneous collection of travel notes and reflections by the celebrated German landscape designer and nobleman.

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

read

“the Prince Puckler Muskau suggests the probability of men coming to put the bodies of their dead parents in the fields to fertilize them”

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

Inferred Fuller names Prince Pückler-Muskau explicitly and paraphrases a suggestion he reportedly made about burying the dead in fields as fertilizer. Pückler-Muskau's Tutti Frutti (1834) is the most likely source, as it contains his varied social and philosophical observations; his Tour in England, Ireland, and France (1826–29) was also widely read at that time.

1845—

Books of Travel.

“Books of Travel.”

mentioned

“And of all the tourists who have tried it, who is so entertaining as Prince Pückler Muskau, commonly spoken of as “ the German Prince?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845