Author
Carl Friedrich Zelter is documented in Fuller’s letters and published essays (1838–1845). 2 distinct works are named, most often in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817-1838, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.
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 →
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“Many a Zelterian epistle have I mentally addressed to you full of sprightly scraps about the books I have read”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Inferred 'Zelterian' alludes to the published correspondence between Goethe and Carl Friedrich Zelter, known for its familiar, gossipy style.
“There is nothing finer extant, unless it be in the correspondence of the same Goethe with his friend Zelter.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from the German." New-York Daily Tribune, 14 March 1845. · 14 March 1845