Author

Isaac Watts(1674–1748)

Isaac Watts is documented in Fuller’s letters and journals (1842). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Elizabeth Hoar, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “quoted”.

Engagement: QuotedReadMentioned
Present in: Letters · Journals
Documented: 1842

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 →

When Fuller engaged with Isaac Watts

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

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.

Watts in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1842—

Letter to Elizabeth Hoar

p54

quoted · read

“Sunday is my only day of peace, and how often, as in Providence, have I blest again and again the "sweet day of sacred rest.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller places "sweet day of sacred rest" in quotation marks, citing the opening line of Isaac Watts's hymn "Sweet is the day of sacred rest," a paraphrase of Psalm 92 published in his 1719 Psalms of David.

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

n.d.—

Journal 1833–1842

p29

mentionedManuscript page

“Let us not forget that many things are true which cannot be demonstrated by the rules of Watts's Logick. &c”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).

Inferred The text explicitly names 'Watts's Logick' Isaac Watts, Logick: or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth (London: Clark, Mathews, and Ford, 1724) was the standard logic textbook at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, and Yale for over a century.