Author

Leonard Woods

Leonard Woods is documented in Fuller’s letters (1830). One work is named, all in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “read”.

Engagement
Read
Present in
Letters
Documented
1830
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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 →

Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had Leonard Woods’s work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • Dated
  • 1830[personal letter]Attested

    “I have read Leonard Woods's letter often and cannot but think of his prophetick fear”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 23d Jany. 1830

    "I have read Leonard Woods's letter often" is an explicit, repeated reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with Leonard Woods

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
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.

Woods in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

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

1830—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838

letter_0990.txt
read
“I have read Leonard Woods's letter often and cannot but think of his prophetick fear”

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

Inferred "I have read Leonard Woods's letter often" is an explicit, repeated reading statement.