Biblical Book
Documented in Fuller’s letters, books, manuscripts
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
“I find with acute pain that in believing the New Testament I must receive the Old _ They are so intimately linked together that it cannot be avoided.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Fragmentary Reading Notes and Autobiographical Reflections." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
“have her little Testament which she marked passages which she deciding this point and some passages which she authorative connection with read with her sympathizing friend Miss Martineau”
Fuller, Richard Frederick. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston: Privately printed, 1936.
“I long, in short, "to die to earth and live forever.”
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.
“Sunday is my only day of peace, and how often, as in Providence, have I blest again and again the "sweet day of sacred rest.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Inferred Fuller places "sweet day of sacred rest" in quotation marks, citing the opening line of Isaac Watts's hymn "Sweet is the day of sacred rest," a paraphrase of Psalm 92 published in his 1719 Psalms of David.
“we would confidently leave the arbitration to a mind ? could such a one be found ?”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
Inferred Rammohun Roy (1772–1833) is invoked as an exemplary mind capable of judging the New Testament from a position of intellectual independence; Roy was a Hindu reformer who studied Christianity comparatively without having been raised in it. No specific text by Roy is named. It is unclear whether Fuller is citing Roy as a reader/thinker or simply as a recognized figure.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“I have her little Testament in which she marked passages which she found authoritative in deciding this point and some passages which she read with her sympathizing friend Miss Martineau in connection with it.”
“Margaret, indeed, had often urged me to do so, declaring that, if only for scholarship's sake, it was disgraceful to know little of a Book which contained such supreme literary excellence, had swayed the hearts of multitudes in successive ages, and had wrought such wonders in the history of our race.”
Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.
Fuller, Richard Frederick. Recollections of Richard F. Fuller. Boston: privately printed, 1936.