Works and Days (Hesiod)

Folklore & Mythology Book

Documented in Fuller’s letters, journals, manuscripts

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

Representative documentary evidence

1840—

Journal 1840

“Motto from Hesiod_”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1840." Journal, 1840. Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (85); Box 5 (85).

1849—

L-2 [Letter 846, 28 August 1849, To William H. Channing]

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“I rejoiced that it lay not with me to cut down the trees, to destroy the Elysian gardens, for the defense of Rome”

L-2 [Letter 846, 28 August 1849, To William H. Channing]

Undated

Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Meta in Elysium

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“It is indeed a place of beauty, but more like the Greek Elysium than the home Klopstock and I were wont to picture to ourselves beyond The gate of Death.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Meta in Elysium." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Inferred Identification rationale not yet recorded.