Author
Samuel Gray Ward is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1843–1845). One work is named, most often in Essays on Art; By Goethe; Translated . . ., 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 →
Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Samuel Gray Ward’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.
“Hints on A and A, I enjoyed reading again with Sarah; their strength and sense make me proud.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Chicago, 4th August, 1843
Explicit 'I enjoyed reading again with Sarah'.
“The translator says in his preface, “The name of Artist, as applied to Goethe, is familiar to all the world. This title was owing not so much to the artistic feeling and knowledge conspicuous in his great works,”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Hints on A and A, I enjoyed reading again with Sarah; their strength and sense make me proud.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Fuller abbreviates the title as "Hints on A and A" (Art and Architecture); Hudspeth identified this as Sam Ward's "Notes on Art and Architecture" (pp. 107-15).
“The one signed S. was given me last autumn... Each sat alone, girt round with plastered walls”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Inferred Editorial footnote states 'The poem signed "S" was probably written by Sam Ward' Only a single quoted line, too short to constitute a substantial excerpt.
“The translations are made with a spirit, a fidelity and fulness of comprehension, worthy the admirable beauty and depth of the originals.”
“The translator says in his preface, “The name of Artist, as applied to Goethe, is familiar to all the world.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Essays on Art; By Goethe; Translated . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 May 1845.