Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, journals, notebooks, manuscripts, memoirs
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“the grasshopper is a burden, and though as each task comes I borrow a readiness from its aspect as I always do brightness for the moment from the face of a friend”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“which resolve will weigh with me as much as it can weigh before the silver cord is finally loosed.”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“like the Preacher found it not. [quoted in Hudspeth fn. 1, from the Shelley sonnet Fuller quotes]”
Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“resolve will weigh with me as much as it can weigh before the silver cord is finally loosed.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
Inferred The editors identified this work based on the direct resonance of this well-known phrase.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“and the grasshopper is a burden.”
Fuller, Margaret. "On a Visit at Atheneum." Unbound pages, undated. Boston Public Library Archives & Special Collections; MS Am. 1450; Box: 3, Folder: 122.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“Then we are ready to cry out also _ Behold this also is vanity and vexation of Spirit”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1842." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (83); Box 5 (83).
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“nor any 'crambe' in that repeated vanity and burthen of all the wisdom of Solomon 'All is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Sir Thomas Browne." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (87); Box 6 (87).