Author
Karl Wagner (ed.) is documented in Fuller’s letters, journals, and manuscripts (1837). One work is named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “excerpted”.
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 →
“Goethe's letter to Merck, p 97 / M's corres. / "The Prince is a grand, firm, / true nature, with a prodigious / imagination and an upright, / manly existence. We are the / best friends; in thee he has / already great trust, he but wholly / thyself towards him; he needs / very much to find men. / He says in the same letter. / "Wieland is a quite infinitely / good man." / In one of his letters about / their residence at Ilmenau / he says, "I lust for landscapes / while the Duke hunts / the deer”
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 take the liberty to send Merck and the two first vols of Zelter.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Inferred Fuller is sending Emerson her copy of the Briefe an Johann Heinrich Merck von Goethe, Herder, Wieland und andern bedeutenden Zeitgenossen (Darmstadt, 1835), identified by Hudspeth.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Goethe's letter to Merck, p 97 / M's corres. / "The Prince is a grand, firm, / true nature, with a prodigious / imagination and an upright, / manly existence.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.
“p4: 'Wieland in his letters to Merck / speaks always of the Geheim Rath Goethe as the source of all power... our Wieland says, "He will not be able to go away for Karl (the G.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.