Author

Charles Wilkes(1798–1877)

Charles Wilkes is documented in Fuller’s books and published essays (1845). 3 distinct works are named, most often in New-York Daily Tribune, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.

Engagement: AnalyzedReadMentioned
Present in: Books · Essays
Documented: 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

“Slight as the intercourse held by the Voyager with the South Sea Islands is, his narrative is always more prized by us than those of the missionary and traders [...] A mind in such a state will find many facts ready for its use in these volumes relative to the South Sea Islanders, and other objects of interest.”

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 · New-York Daily Tribune · 1845

When Fuller engaged with Charles Wilkes

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York3records

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.

Wilkes in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1845—

New-York Daily Tribune

“United States Exploring Expedition” · June 28, 1845 · p. 1

analyzed · read

“Slight as the intercourse held by the Voyager with the South Sea Islands is, his narrative is always more prized by us than those of the missionary and traders [...] A mind in such a state will find many facts ready for its use in these volumes relative to the South Sea Islanders, and other objects of interest.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

1845—

Com. Wilkes’s Narrative.

“Com. Wilkes’s Narrative.”

analyzed · read

“But we are much disappointed to be carried no farther and introduced to no more novel topics or details of information by passing through so many pages.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Com. Wilkes’s Narrative." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 May 1845. · 7 May 1845

1845—

United States Exploring Expedition.

“United States Exploring Expedition.”

analyzed · read

“The last volumes of Wilkes’s Narrative have reached us now, and, though like the first they are written in too prolix a style, and show the writer without high qualifications for such a task, they are upon ground so much less familiar that they are far more interesting than the first.”

Fuller, Margaret. "United States Exploring Expedition." New-York Daily Tribune, 28 June 1845. · 28 June 1845