Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Author

William Wilkins(1778–1839)

William Wilkins is documented in Fuller’s letters. One work is named, all in Letter to unknown, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
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When Fuller engaged with William Wilkins

No datable encounters with Wilkins, William have been catalogued yet.

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Wilkins in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

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

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Letter to unknown

p129
mentioned
“But I want more engravings, [Vitruvius,] Magna Grecia, the [Ionian] Antiquities &c.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

The most likely reference is William Wilkins's The Antiquities of Magna Graecia (1807), a large folio with 73 engraved plates of classical Greek temples in southern Italy, though an alternative attribution to Paoli's multi-volume Delle antichità della Magna Grecia is possible.