Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

Gospel of Matthew

Biblical Book

Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, journals, notebooks, manuscripts, memoirs

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

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Representative documentary evidence

1819—

Penmanship Practice: "Love your enemies"

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“Love your enemies Love your enemies Love your enemies.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Penmanship Practice: "Love your enemies"." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Fuller copies the biblical phrase 'Love your enemies' three times as a penmanship exercise; she does not name the Bible, Matthew, or any chapter/verse. The phrase is the verbatim command from Matthew 5:44 (KJV): 'But I say unto you, Love your enemies.' The same phrase appears in Luke 6:27 (KJV): 'But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies.' Both author and title are inferred from the well-known scriptural phrase itself. The phrase is the verbatim command of Matthew 5:44 (KJV): 'But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.' The same injunction appears in Luke 6:27 (KJV): 'But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.' The exact phrase 'Love your enemies' is sufficiently distinctive and scripturally canonical to be identified with certainty.

The phrase is the verbatim command of Matthew 5:44 (KJV): 'But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.' The same injunction appears in Luke 6:27 (KJV): 'But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.' The exact phrase 'Love your enemies' is sufficiently distinctive and scripturally canonical to be identified with certainty.

1820—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I shall finish this letter with the Lords prayer in Latin [...] Noster pater qui estis in coelo sis sacrum tuum nomen, tua voluntas esto factus in terra ut in coelo, da nos eum diem nostrum quotidianum cererem et da veniam nobis nostra peccata ut da veniam eis qui peccant nobis duco nos non temptationem et trade a peccato tuum est imperium, potestas et gloria semper.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1824—

Letter to Abraham W. Fuller

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“I have seen her tried seventy times seven times, which is I think the number of times which you said would satisfy you”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller alludes to Matthew 18:22 when she writes "seventy times seven," referencing Jesus's teaching on forgiveness and suggesting she and her uncle had previously discussed this scriptural standard. She applies the phrase to justify her repeated testing and confirmation of Miss Prescott's character.

1832—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller: Edited by Robert N

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“that contempt of the forms and shews of goodness- that fixed resolve to be any-thing but "like unto these Pharisees”

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.

1837—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“if such seed must not fertilize the spot for which it was intended, the fowl of the air may carry it away to some more propitious clime”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller alludes to the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:4–9), using imagery of seed falling on stony ground and birds of the air to describe how Emerson's address might fall on unreceptive soil in her Providence audience.

1837—

Letter to A. Bronson Alcott

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“there is always comfort in the thought that, if such seed must not fertilize the spot for which it was intended, the fowl of the air may carry it away to some more propitious clime”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1838—

Letter to Jane F. Tuckerman

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“I pray thus, my dearest child: "Our Father, let not the heaviest shower be spared, let not the gardener forbear his knife, till the fair hopeful tree of existence be brought to its fullest blossom and fruit!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1841—

Life Without and Life Within

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“Ye cannot serve God and Mammon.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1859.

1841—

Journal November 1841

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“Ask and it shall be given you, seek, and ye shall find. [...] From a prayer by Richard Peters. / Deliver us from evil.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal November 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 5.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

1842—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller: Edited by Robert N

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“all present ate, and were filled, and there were taken up of the fragments twelve baskets full”

Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.

1842—

La Nuovissima Vita

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“O keep us as the lily of the field / In nightly worship pure perfume to yield;”

Fuller, Margaret. "La Nuovissima Vita." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086.

Inferred The phrase 'keep us as the lily of the field' alludes directly to Matthew 6:28–30 KJV: 'Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin...

1843—

The Letters of Margaret Fuller: Edited by Robert N

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“Am not I too one of the band who know not where to lay their heads.”

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.

“that Power which daily makes me understand the value of the little wheat amid the field of tares”
“shows me how the kingdom of heaven is sown on earth like a grain of mustard seed”
“you seem in fields full of lilies perfumed with pure kindness, and feel, verily, that Solomon in all his glory could not have entertained you so much to the purpose.”
“It is the beloved Son in whom both God and Man will be well pleased.”

Fuller, Margaret. The letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. 6 vols. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983–1994.