CatalogueEvidence
What Fuller actually read
Occasions where the evidence indicates a book in hand, rather than a passing allusion.
Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this catalogue is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
The catalogue records every author and title that surfaces in Fuller’s writings. This list asks a narrower question: on which occasions can we say she was reading? Each event carries the sentence it rests on, so the grading can be checked against the source.
- AttestedAttested — Fuller explicitly names the work or author as read
- DemonstratedDemonstrated — sustained first-person engagement implying the book in hand (extended excerpting, translation, or detailed discussion); a brief unattributed quotation does not qualify
- PossiblePossible — reading suggested but not established (posthumous reports, brief unattributed quotations or allusions, and other thin traces)
Possible includes posthumous testimony, brief unattributed quotations or allusions, possession without a reading statement, and other thin traces. It is shown as supplemental evidence only (67 events), never counted in the 666 Attested and Demonstrated total. Across all displayed tiers, 468 events carry a date and 265 do not; undated events are listed below but never plotted on the lifeline.
Inferred is a separate identification flag, not an evidence tier. It marks a title supplied by the editor, and its rationale is displayed with the event; any of the three tiers may carry it.
A related document, kept separate from these events: the Gore Hall ledger, 1843–44 — forty-eight ledger entries charged out of the Harvard College Library on her brother Richard’s card, twenty-two of them by authors in this catalogue. Evidence of household access, not of Fuller’s reading.
1815
“It was Guy Mannering, then lately published, and the first of Scott's novels I had ever seen.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · then lately published
1816
- VirgilAeneidPossiblePosthumous testimony
“as she had just read in her Virgil, of being among trees that dripped with blood”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · childhood, before age eight (before Shakespeare episode)
1817
“I have copied for you the passage I mentioned in Shelley, as applicable to your opinions... The lines are from Prince Athanase”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · According to his wife, Shelley wrote "Prince Athanase" in December 1817. She published it for the first time in 1824.
1818
“I have been reviewing Valpy's Chronology.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Canton 13 Jany 1818
“This Sunday—I was only eight years old—I took from the book-shelf a volume lettered SHAKSPEARE... I held in my hand 'Romeo and Juliet”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · This Sunday—I was only eight years old
“She was but eight years old when the interest of Romeo and Juliet led her to rebel against the discipline”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · She was but eight years old
1819
“I have read papa that Zeluco is a very intelligent sensible book therefore as I assure you I have been a very good girl.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819
“I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation. Do not let the name novel make you think it is either trifling or silly.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819
“Write My Deserted Village goes on slowly. I have only translated a page and a half.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819
1820
- Joanna BaillieAttested
“I have read naught save Massinger, Miss Baillie and now and then some of Burns-”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1820]
“when I had finished my Deserted Village I shall finish it well”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17th January 1820
- Philip MassingerAttested
“I have read naught save Massinger, Miss Baillie and now and then some of Burns-”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1820]
- Robert BurnsAttested
“I have read naught save Massinger, Miss Baillie and now and then some of Burns-”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1820]
- UNKNOWNThe Lord's PrayerDemonstrated
“I shall finish this letter with the Lords prayer in Latin ... Noster pater qui estis in coelo sis sacrum tuum nomen”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 3d February 1820
- VirgilAeneidAttested
“I am half through the fifth book of Virgil In my last lesson I got the whole of the fourth book”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 3d February 1820
“The other day I saw Sotherbys Oberon in the bookcase I never read any thing that delighted me so much as that book”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 21st March 1820
1821
“I have persuaded mamma to ask Mr Stiles Ganet to come here twice in a week in order to hear me recite in Caesars Commentaries and the Greek Grammar.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 15th Jan 1821
1822
“I had begun "Smiths Wealth of Nations and I wished to finish it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 3o Dec 1822
“I have read your speeches on the subject of the Piracy bill, and rejoice in your success.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 22d Dec. 1822
- VirgilAttested
“This fancy was attributed at the time to my incessant reading of Virgil.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · When I was about twelve
“I have read Bracebridge Hall lately. I was much disappointed in it, it seems to me to possess very little incident or originality of idea”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 22d Dec. 1822
1823
“To the Countess of B. Written at Genoa. 1833. 'You have asked for a verse, the request / In a rhymer 'twere strange to deny...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Written at Genoa. 1833 [sic, poem actually composed 1823]
“I learn a portion of Tacitus every day, and am writing a translation of Cicero against Cataline.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 18th Dec 1823
- TacitusAttested
“I learn a portion of Tacitus every day, and am writing a translation of Cicero against Cataline.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 18th Dec 1823
1824
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, May 21St. 1824
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, May 21St. 1824
- Vittorio AlfieriAttested
“I learn lessons in Alfieri occasionally.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 22d Feb 1824.
“I study Hedge's Logick, Blair's Rhetorick and Colburn's Arithmetick.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, May 21St. 1824
1825
“I devote to you the hours which Ariosto and Helvetius ask of my eyes”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, it July 1825
- Claude Adrien HelvetiusAttested
“the hours which Ariosto and Helvetius ask of my eyes, — as, lying on my writing desk, they put me in mind that they must return this week”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Cambridge, July 11, 1825
“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton January 5th. 1825
- Jean Charles Leonard Simonde de SismondiDe la littérature du midi de l'Europe (Literature of the South of Europe)Attested
“Next I read French,—Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe,—till eight, then two or three lectures in Brown's Philosophy.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, it July 1825
“at the age of fifteen or sixteen ... Racine, and Castilian ballads are mentioned as read by her with delight”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · at the age of fifteen or sixteen
“at the age of fifteen or sixteen ... Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads are mentioned as read by her with delight”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · at the age of fifteen or sixteen
“I devote to you the hours which Ariosto and Helvetius ask of my eyes,—as, lying on my writing-desk, they put me in mind that they must return this week to their owner.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, it July 1825
“Next I read French,—Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe,—till eight, then two or three lectures in Brown's Philosophy.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, it July 1825
- UNKNOWNCastilian balladsPossiblePosthumous testimony
“and Castilian ballads are mentioned as read by her with delight”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · at the age of fifteen or sixteen
“I study this term Geo Enfields Philosophy, Chemistry and Lord Kames's Criticisms.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton January 5th. 1825
1826
“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
- EpictetusAttested
“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
- Jean RacineAttested
“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
“and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
- John MiltonAttested
“I am studying Madame de Stael, Epictetus, Milton, Racine, and Castilian ballads, with great delight.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 14 May 1826
“I have lately been reading Anastasius, the Greek Gil Blas, which has excited and delighted me; but I do not think you like works of this cast.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 5 March 1826
1827
- Francesco BerniAttested
“I am engrossed in reading the elder Italian poets, beginning with Berni, from whom I shall proceed to Pulci and Politian.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 10 January 1827
1828
“I have also read a most entertaining book, which I advise you to read...Russell's Tour in Germany.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Cambridge, Jan. 3, 1828
- Ram Mohan RoyAttested
“having been in bed from dinner till tea, reading Rammohun Roy's book, and framing dialogues aloud”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Cambridge, Jan. 3, 1828
“reading Rammohun Roy's book, and framing dialogues aloud on every argument beneath the sun.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 3 January 1828
“I am reading Sir William Temple's works, with great pleasure.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 3 January 1828
1829
“December 17, 1829.—The following instance of beautiful credulity, in Rousseau, has taken my mind greatly”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · December 17, 1829
“This was the German book entitled: Die Scherin von Prevorst...Mitgetheilt von Justinus Kerner. The Seeress of Prevorst...communicated by Justinus Kerner.”
Summer on the Lakes · This book, published in Germany some twelve years since
“I stopped to read Willis's two pieces in his last number which came home tonight; he has half a dozen ideas”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Friday eveg. Deer 19th 182g
“Tasso,' says Rousseau, 'has predicted my misfortunes... look to Fairfax's Jerusalem Delivered, Canto 12, Stanza 77”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · December 17, 1829
“look to Fairfax, Gerusalemme? Lib. Canto 12 Stanza 77... 'Misero mostro d'infelice amore...' La Gerusalemme Liberata, C.XII.76,77.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · December 17th 1829
- UNKNOWNItalian novelists (unnamed English adaptation)Attested
“One of the finest fictions I recollect in those specimens of the Italian novelists,—which you, I think, read when I did,—noble, where it illustrated the Italian national spirit, is ruined by the English novelist”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. winter] 1829-1830
1830
“a half-satisfied interest urges me to live, love and perish! in the noble, wronged heart of Basil”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Saturday evening, 1 May 1830
- George Gordon ByronAttested
“My whole being is Byronized at this moment c'est a dire my whole mind is possessed with one desire—to comprehend Byron once for all.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 30th March [1830]
“she addresses herself to the study of Fichte and Jacobi, of Brown and Stewart”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · during the 1829-1833 period
“she addresses herself to the study of Fichte and Jacobi, of Brown and Stewart”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · during the 1829-1833 period
“I thank you a thousand times for "The Rivals." Alas!! I must leave my heart in the book”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 16 March 1830
“she addresses herself to the study of Fichte and Jacobi, of Brown and Stewart”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · during the 1829-1833 period of friendship with Clarke
“I have read Leonard Woods's letter often and cannot but think of his prophetick fear”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 23d Jany. 1830
“I have read one book,—a piece of poetry entitled "Two Agonies", by M. A. Browne”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, Nov 19. 1830
“Do you like, also, the ode to Autumn, and — 'Sigh on, sad heart, for love's eclipse'?”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'It was a beautiful time when I first read these poems. I was staying in Hallowell, Maine'
“I went into the fields and passed the morng reading Moores Byron and inspiring delight in every breath.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 30th March [1830]
“read Moore beginning with that song which made Byron's friend's wife so melancholy for three hours or so”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 30th March [1830]
- UNKNOWNAttested
“a half-satisfied interest urges me to live, love and perish! in the noble, wronged heart of Basil...The hero of a novel she was reading.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Saturday evening, May 1st, 1830
1831
“I read a quantity of Allemagne in town but could not find Werner.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
“I am swallowing by gasps that cauldrony beverage of selfish passion and morbid taste the letters of Mile Lespinasse”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
“At E.s I read that tangled phantasm of passionate folly, Glenarvon, from beginning to end”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
- TacitusAttested
“Two in studying Tacitus and reading French with my beloved brother.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
- VoltaireAttested
“My pleasures... reading Voltaire hearing the great trees rattle”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday eveg[11 October 1831]
1832
“within the year she had read the most important works of Goethe and Schiller, with the writings of Tieck, Korner, Bichter, and Novalis”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · She began the study of German in 1832 ... within the year
“with the writings of Tieck, Korner, Bichter, and Novalis”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · She began the study of German in 1832 ... within the year
“It seems to me as if the mind of Goethe had embraced the universe. I have felt this lately, in reading his lyric poems.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1 August 1832]
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust, Tasso, Iphigenia, Hermann and Dorothea, Elective Affinities, MemoirsPossiblePosthumous testimony
“Within the year, she had read Goethe's Faust, Tasso, Iphigenia, Hermann and Dorothea, Elective Affinities, and Memoirs”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · within the year [1832]
“I send you the close of my translation which I would like to have you read- I have left out some of the Harp's Swedenborgian remarks”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [mid-August? 1832]
“It pains one to part with Ottilia- I wish we could learn books as we do pieces of musick”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [mid-August? 1832]
“within the year she had read the most important works of Goethe and Schiller, with the writings of Tieck, Korner, Bichter, and Novalis”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · She began the study of German in 1832, and in three months acquired the command of the language, so that within the year
“Korner, Novalis, and something of Richter; all of Schiller's principal dramas, and his lyric poetry.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · within the year [1832]
“with the writings of Tieck, Korner, Bichter, and Novalis”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · She began the study of German in 1832 ... within the year
“Tieck's William Lovel, Prince Zerbino, and other works”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · within the year [1832]
“with the writings of Tieck, Korner, Bichter, and Novalis”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · She began the study of German in 1832 ... within the year
“I have read, thoroughly, only two of his pieces, "Die Lehrlinge zu Sais," and "Heinrich von Ofterdingen.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 7 August 1832
“I have read, thoroughly, only two of his pieces, "Die Lehrlinge zu Sais," and "Heinrich von Ofterdingen.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 7 August 1832
“Korner, Novalis, and something of Richter”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · within the year [1832]
“with the writings of Tieck, Korner, Bichter, and Novalis”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · She began the study of German in 1832 ... within the year
“Both she and I were attracted towards this literature...by the wild bugle-call of Thomas Carlyle, in his romantic articles on Richter, Schiller, and Goethe”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Margaret began to study German early in 1832
“moved thereunto by Thomas Carlyle's brilliant exposition of the merits of leading German authors”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · began in 1832
“I have read all Jefferson's letters, the North American, the daily papers, &c., without end.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Groton — Spring has come
1833
“thinking through Alroy which I have been reading”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [30? June 1833]
“At twenty-three she was so familiar with Dante that Emerson proposed her translating the "Vita Nuova.”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · At twenty-three she was so familiar with Dante
“Yesterday I took Hood's and Pinkney's poems and Miss Martineau on Scott into the wood.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 27th July 1833
- Felicia Dorothea HemansAttested
“I have read sundry books and one beautiful bit of poesy by- Mrs Hemans "Ay I did weep Kind heavens how I did weep.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 17? June 1833]
“within the year had read the most important works of Goethe and Schiller”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · within the year of 1832
“I return Lessing.' I could hardly get through Miss Sampson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · June 1833
“E. Galeotti is good in the same way as Minna.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · June 1833
“E. Galeotti is good in the same way as Minna.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · June 1833
“F.—Von was fur Tugenden spricht er denn? Minna.—Er spricht von keiner; denn ihn fehlt keine.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
“Yesterday I took Hood's and Pinkney's poems and Miss Martineau on Scott into the wood.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 27th July 1833
- Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)TitanAttested
“Voici Titan! I have not been able to get into Richter's stream—I read here and there before E... I do not even know why the book is called Titan”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [1? July 1833]
- Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)TitanAttested
“I brought your beloved Jean Paul with me, but have been obliged to send him back before I was half through Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th July. 1833
- Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)Wahren, Guten, und SchonenAttested
“I solace my soul with Goethe, and follow his guidance into realms of the 'Wahren, Guten, and Schonen.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Groton, April 25, 1833
- Jean Paul RichterAttested
“I brought your beloved Jean Paul with me too. I cannot yet judge well, but think we shall not be intimate.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · May, 1833
“I have read nothing,—to signify,—except Goethe's "Campagne in Frankreich.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 20 May 1833]
“I have with me those works of Goethe which I have not read and am now perusing Kunst and Alterthum and Campagne in Frankreich.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th July. 1833
“am now perusing Kunst and Alterthum and Campagne in Frankreich.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th July. 1833
“Three or four afternoons I have passed very happily at my beloved haunt in the wood, reading Goethe's 'Second Residence in Rome.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · May, 1833.—Groton
“I am now engaged upon 'Kunst and Alterthum,' and 'Campagne in Frankreich.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · May, 1833
“Send me the journal and I will send you Tasso when I have finished it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 22 April 1833]
“I have nearly finished the third act of Tasso- I could get through the play in three days”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3d May 1833
“I have read no German except Faust which I take every sunny noon to a wood”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3d May 1833
“Three or four afternoons I have passed very happily at my beloved haunt in the wood reading Goethe's "second residence in Rome”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth August 1833
“within the year had read the most important works of Goethe and Schiller”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · within the year of 1832
“with the writings also of Tieck, Korner, Richter, and Novalis”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · within the year of 1832
“I part with Plato with regret... Eutyphron is excellent... declares, "qu'il aimerait incomparablement mieux des principes fixes et inebranlables a l'habilite de Dedale avec les tresors de Tantale.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
“Crito" I have read only once, but like it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
“The "Apology" I deem only remarkable for the noble tone of sentiment, and beautiful calmness.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
“I was much affected by Phaedo, but think the argument weak in many respects.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
“June 3, 1833.—I part with Plato with regret...Eutyphron is excellent...'Crito' I have only read once...The 'Apology' I deem only remarkable...I was much affected by Phaedo”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · June 3, 1833
- PlatoAttested
“read Plato with Eliz instead- That morng and no doubt he was a more profitable companion”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3d May 1833
“This aftn I have been reading a memoir of J. H. Payne Poor fellow!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth August 1833
- Thomas HoodAttested
“Yesterday I took Hood's and Pinkney's poems and Miss Martineau on Scott into the wood.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 27th July 1833
- UNKNOWNBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (sketching article/Devonshire and Cornwall article)Attested
“Is not that sketching number in Blackwood very good?... the article on Cornwall and Devon made me laugh to die”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [1? July 1833]
- UNKNOWNAttested
“William Lowell! This book is painfully fascinating to me_ I have not for so long a time thought, in reading a book of any.thing but its author's opinions...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · [later pencil addition: I 1833 Cambridge]
“It includes a careful perusal of Alfieri's writings and an examination into the evidences of the Christian religion”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · her time at Groton beginning spring of 1833
1834
“I have only lately read the "Female Sovereigns" of your beloved Mrs Jameson, and like them better than any of her works!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, March 9. 1834
“I meant to have mentioned, in speaking of Mr Barlow, his lines on the death of Edward Emerson... they drew many tears from my eyes”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton gth Novr 1834
“I happened today on B's little critique on Scott which I like very much—though his objections to Scott's want of mannerism”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
“Chastellux has mingled too much of the brilliant in his portrait of Gen Washington. His eye bespeaks great goodness of heart...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 13th [March 1834]
“Mr Robinson brought me your article on Phrenology as "capital—logical, pungent, beautiful style”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
- J. F. C.The Bridge, by MoonlightDemonstrated
“From the Boston Pearl. THE BRIDGE, BY MOONLIGHT. Around the rushing waters brightly gleam ... Niagara, June 17, 1834. J. F. C.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Niagara, June 17, 1834
“I have been skimming Brissot's travels in this county Three years after he was guillotined.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 13th [March 1834]
“I have been reading Jahn's History of the Hebrew commonwealth together with the old Testament”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834
- Johann Ludwig UhlandAttested
“I have been reading your favorite Uhland in some still midnight hours of late”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834
“The little piece "To a golden heart" is done, I think, better than any of these, though translated several years ago.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · translated several years ago
“Goethe's notes. to the W.O Devan - I read them in bed for I was very ill to day.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 183[4]5 or 5? [pencil marginal note]
“I took a two or three year old "Token," and chanced on a story, called the "Gentle Boy," which I remembered to have heard was written by somebody in Salem.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1834?]
“I got a volume of Frazer's Mag and read all the Sartors I could find”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
“Also Memoirs of Count Cagliostro in two Flights which pleased me mightily”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
“My trans of Tasso cannot be published a present if ever”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton loth March 1834
“Please send my trans of Tasso if you have it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton gth Novr 1834
“With regard to Mr Emerson, I had two reasons... for wishing him to see my Tasso.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth Novr 1834
“My translation of Tasso cannot be published at present, if it ever is.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · March, 1834
“My translation of Tasso cannot be published at present if ever.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Groton 20th March 1834
- UNKNOWNOld TestamentAttested
“together with the old Testament”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834
“Have you read Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame? I am much fascinated by it”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 26th Decr 1834
1835
“Tolga il ciel che alcuno Piu altamente di me pensi ch'io stesso. — Carmagnola / What author beside Manzoni would have ventured on such a sentiment...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
“Dedication of Adelchi Alla diletta e venerata sua moglie E. L. Blondel...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- Cassius (pseudonym)A PortraitDemonstrated
“She's beautiful! Her raven curls Have broken hearts in envious girls— ... CASSIUS.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- D. H. B.Lines to the Memory of Edward Bliss EmersonDemonstrated
“LINES To the memory of EDWARD BLISS EMERSON, who died at Porto Rico, October, 1834, aged 29. ... D. H. B.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- Fanny Kemble (Frances Anne Butler)Francis the First (poem "Oh child! who to this evil world art come")Attested
“I could hardly believe that she who could write the lines on a Sleeping Child... could have given rise to all the foolish talk I heard at Newport.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, January 5, 1835
“Red Jacket, a Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras. __ "Thou were monarch born! Tradition's pages...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
“So—where was I?— Oh about Reinhard's memoirs—did you, dear "Minister" ever read them for I am going to quote from them”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835
- Friedrich SchillerAttested
“Fuller responded to her reading of Jacques Pierre Brissot and Schiller by planning "two tragedies on the history of G[ustavus] A[dolphus]”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Reading Journal for 13 March 1835
- Jacques Pierre BrissotAttested
“Fuller responded to her reading of Jacques Pierre Brissot and Schiller by planning "two tragedies on the history of G[ustavus] A[dolphus]”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Reading Journal for 13 March 1835
“thus goes the old / Or if it stays, its flower and freshness gone Fetters the limb weighs down the heart like stone”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835
“I have passed over that part of the first volume which discusses the state of the text, different manuscripts &c.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feby 1835
“Eichhorn's Introduction to the Old Testament. Extract From the preface to the second edition.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Groton. 1st. Jan y 1835.
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAttested
“Are you vexed by my keeping the six volumes of your Goethe? I read him very little either”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. February 1835]
“loaned me her manuscript translation of Goethe's Tasso”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · I BECAME acquainted with Margaret in 1835... told me of her genius... and loaned me her manuscript translation
“Keble's Christian Year. "Burial of the Dead.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- New Testament / BibleNew Testament (Testament)PossiblePosthumous testimony
“I have her little Testament in which she marked passages which she found authorative in deciding this point, and some passages which she read with her sympathizing friend Miss Martineau”
Mem-1 Recollections of Richard F. Fuller · Described as occurring in the period around Timothy Fuller's death and the decision about the European tour, i.e. 1835
“vires acquirit eundo / parva metu prima; mox sese attollit in auras, / et caput inter nubilia condit.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 6th March 1835
“a piece new to me entitled "The Pang more sharp than all"—by which I was reminded of some lines of yours”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835
- St. Luke (Gospel of Luke)Demonstrated
“And when the Lord saw her he had compassion on her and said unto her, Weep not..." St. Luke”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- The Bible (KJV)Book of JobPossiblePosthumous testimony
“she had an unconquerable resolution, and a faith in God which could not be shaken, and whose expression was "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”
Mem-1 Recollections of Richard F. Fuller · Described as occurring just after Timothy Fuller's death (autumn 1835), during Margaret's recovery from a brain fever
- UNKNOWNMaterialist workAttested
“that I had just closed a Materialist work, whose Author, too, corrected it for the press, on his death-bed.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, January 5, 1835
- UNKNOWNQuarterly Review article on ColeridgeAttested
“there is a fine article on Coleridge which I daresay you have read... Note the parallel between Coleridges conversational powers and those of Sir J. Mackintosh”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 1st Feb 1835
- UNKNOWNAttested
“I lately happened on five sermons by one of that sect which pleased me much though the writer as such was no great things—”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 6th March 1835
- UNKNOWNArgentile and Curan (old ballad)Demonstrated
“In the old Ballad of Argentile and Curan, there is an admirable portraiture of beauty—"Her stature comely, tall...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- UNKNOWNThe Removal of Some Old Family PortraitsDemonstrated
“THE REMOVAL OF SOME OLD FAMILY PORTRAITS, AUGUST, 1834. [From Blackwood.]”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
“Nobody denies that Christianity, considered is a system of religious instruction, has its essential and fundamental doctrines..." Walker on the exclusive system.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
- William Henry FurnessSpirit of Jesus: A Sermon Preached at the Installation of Rev. D. H. BarlowAttested
“I was much pleased with Mr Furness' preachment; his doctrine came to me with a fresher flavor”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton, January 5, 1835
- William WordsworthDemonstrated
“Wordsworth, "Why art Thou silent! Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-
1836
- Anne Louise Germaine de StaëlAttested
“I have, for the time, laid aside De Stael and Bacon, for Martineau and Southey.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“the whole hundred cantos of the Divina Commedia, with the aid of the fine Athenaeum copy, Flaxman's designs, and all the best commentaries.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
- Francesco PetrarchAttested
“I read parts of Tasso, Petrarch,—whom they came to almost adore,—Ariosto, Alfieri”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
- Francis BaconAttested
“I have, for the time, laid aside De Stael and Bacon, for Martineau and Southey.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“do not let him expect anything of me because I have ventured on a book so profound as the Novum Organum.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · March 17th, 1836
- Friedrich Heinrich JacobiÜber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den herrn Moses MendelssohnAttested
“Jacobi I could understand in details, but not in system.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
“With more advanced pupils I read, in twenty-four weeks, Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell, besides giving a sort of general lecture on Schiller”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]; twenty-four weeks
“Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Schiller's Don Carlos, Artists, and Song of the Bell”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Lessing's Nathan, Minna, Emilia Galeotti; parts of Tieck's Phantasus, and nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Lessing's Nathan, Minna, Emilia Galeotti”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Lessing's Nathan, Minna, Emilia Galeotti”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
- Harriet MartineauAttested
“I find, with delight, that the former has written on the very subjects I wished most to talk out with her”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“I have read, too, Heyne's letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Since I came home, I have been consulting Buhle's and Tennemann's histories of philosophy, and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
“Fichte I could not understand at all; though the treatise which I read was one intended to be popular”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
“I know not that I could give you a truer impression of them, than by these lines which I translate from the German of Uhland. They are entitled "Justification.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17 April 1836
“I have read, too, Heyne's letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“I have just been reading Goethe's Lebensregel. It is easy to say "Do not trouble yourself with useless regrets for the past...”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23 May, 1836
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust,—three weeks of thorough study this”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea, Goetz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“first part of Faust,—three weeks of thorough study this, as valuable to me as to them,—and Clavigo”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“and Clavigo,—thus comprehending samples of all his efforts in poetry”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“with the aid of the fine Athenaeum copy, Flaxman's designs, and all the best commentaries.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“I have finished Herschel, and really believe I am a little wiser.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“I think Herschel will be very valuable to me, from the slight glance I have taken of it, and I thank Mr. F.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17 March 1836
- Ludovico AriostoAttested
“I read parts of Tasso, Petrarch,—whom they came to almost adore,—Ariosto, Alfieri”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“parts of Tieck's Phantasus, and nearly the whole first volume of Richter's Titan.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
- Robert SoutheyAttested
“As to Southey, I am steeped to the lips in enjoyment. I am glad I did not know this poet earlier”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“Coleridge's Literary Remains, and drank a great deal from Wordsworth.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
- Thomas BrownAttested
“and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
“I have read, too, Heyne's letters twice, Sartor Resartus once, some of Goethe's late diaries, Coleridge's Literary Remains”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
- Torquato TassoAttested
“With the Italian class, I read parts of Tasso, Petrarch,—whom they came to almost adore,—Ariosto, Alfieri, and the whole hundred cantos of the Divina Commedia”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
- Vittorio AlfieriAttested
“I read parts of Tasso, Petrarch,—whom they came to almost adore,—Ariosto, Alfieri”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
“Since I came home, I have been consulting Buhle's and Tennemann's histories of philosophy”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
“I taught him Latin orally, and read the History of England and Shakespeare's historical plays in connection.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. Summer 1837]
- William WordsworthAttested
“I think, in reading, I shall place him next to Wordsworth.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
“By the way, do you know his "Happy Warrior"? I find my insight of this sublime poet perpetually deepening.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836
1837
“I have passed many hours during the last week in the company of your Journals, and would willingly pass many more in the same way.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 18th May 1837.
- Dante AlighieriAttested
“I spent the early part of the eveg in reading bits of Dante with him and talking about the material sublime till half past nine”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston. 11th April 1837.
“the whole hundred cantos of Dante's Divina Commedia”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
“reading with them parts of Tasso, Petrarch, Ariosto, Alfieri, and the whole of the Divina Com media”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · In 1837 she engaged to teach in the Green Street School in Providence
“I have translated great part of Das Ideal und das Leben, and about half of die Kiinstler”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
“I have translated great part of Das Ideal und das Leben, and about half of die Kiinstler”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
- Friedrich SchillerDie Worte des Glaubens; Die Worte des Wahns; Das Spiel des Lebens; HoffnungDemonstrated
“Die Worte des Glaubens"—"worte des Wahns," "Spiel des Lebens" —and "Hoffnung" by Schiller”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
“That from Schiller "To my friends" is very bad.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
“Christmas day I was ill and, as it was holy day) lay on the sofa and read the Music of Nature— Ah!—then I was happy indeed. I read it completely through from ten in the morng to twelve at night”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838; "Christmas day"
- George HerbertAttested
“Write me all about her Thomas a Kempis and George Herbert are constantly at my elbow and remind met”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 18 June 1837
“I have read only two English books this summer, Miss Martineau "America," and the "Letters from Palmyra.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 16th August 1837; "I have read only two English books this summer"
- Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)TitanPossiblePosthumous testimony
“nearly all of the first volume of Richter's Titan”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · her Boston winter of teaching, 1836-37
- Johann Gottfried HerderDemonstrated
“reading to him mostly from De Wette and Herder”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
“As to reading I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, both very good!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston 6th April 1837
“Unless he himself proposed my making an arrangement to translate it for some other publishers than his, I can do nothing.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston. 11th April 1837.
“I could never get beyond the first verse of "Das Gottliche”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
“EMs und Alles" and "Sehnsucht" by Goethe I have translated but still worse than what I send.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
“Since I have looked at Dauer im Wechsel again it seems to me too unworthy; and I am inclined if time should permit to try again.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence June 8th
“they were expressed in this poem of his "Eins and Alles," of whh I send you a rude translation”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence R I July 3d 1837
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHerman und Dorothea; Gotz von Berlichingen; Iphigenia; Faust (first part); ClavigoPossiblePosthumous testimony
“Goethe's Herman und Dorothea, Gotz von Berlichingen, Iphigenia, first part of Faust, and Clavigo”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
“parts of Tieck's Phantasus”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
“As to reading I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, both very good!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston 6th April 1837
“Some of your books I restore. The Literary remains I have ransacked pretty thoroughly.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth May 1837.
“Write me all about her Thomas a Kempis and George Herbert are constantly at my elbow and remind met”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 18 June 1837
“I recd yesterday morng your letter in which you ask for the Necklace...I was able to read it through yesty afternoon and so return it with many thanks.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston. 11th April 1837.
“It is good—but not, to my mind, half as good as the Mirabeau.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston. 11th April 1837.
“While at Concord I read the first vol of Carlyle's French Revolution which he sent to Mr Emerson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sepr 2d Providence [1837]
- UNKNOWNThe BibleAttested
“At times I read the Bible at times Wordsworth”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Oct 2 2d 1840; recalling 'the first winter of my suffering health'
“reading with them parts of Tasso, Petrarch, Ariosto, Alfieri, and the whole of the Divina Com media”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · In 1837 she engaged to teach in the Green Street School in Providence
“and the "Letters from Palmyra." This last book disappointed me a little yet pleased me much.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 16th August 1837; "I have read only two English books this summer"
- Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de WetteDemonstrated
“reading to him mostly from De Wette and Herder”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter of teaching, 1836-37
“At times I read the Bible at times Wordsworth I dwelt in the thoughtful solitudes of his Excursion I wandered like his white doe.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Oct 2 2d 1840; recalling 'the first winter of my suffering health'
“With the Friend I should never have done therefore must get it for mine own.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
- Henry ScougalPossible
“What do you suppose Goethe and Scougal will say to one another as they are journeying side by side?”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
- Joseph Marie de GérandoPossible
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
- John MiltonPossible
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
- Ben JonsonPossible
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
“I wish to ask, that, if Carlyle's Miscellanies are to be published by subscription, as, I believe, the Sartor was, you will put down my name for two copies”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
1838
“had read everything that related to Michael Angelo and Raphael, Quatremere de Quincy, Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
“had read everything that related to Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
“had read everything that related to Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
“Lately I have been amusing myself with looking at you through two pair of spectacles of very dissimilar construction in Brownson's review and the Democratic.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
“Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
- Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)CanzoniereDemonstrated
“Quanti dolci pensier, quanto desio / Mi son venuti nel solitario cammino.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · appears in journal section following dated entries of Nov-Dec 1838, before 'at N.O.' passage
“I have not read any books except what every body reads, Gardiner on Music (thank you for that; it was a great deal to me.)”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
“had read everything that related to Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839
“I have also been studying most happily on Goethe's Propylea—and reading also with delight the book on Language which I was inclined to scout”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838
“Tis but a few evegs since I read the most daring passages in Faust to a coterie of Hannah Mores”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [14 February? 1838]
“I suppose you have never read Goethe's Prometheus Here is a bit of it— You will see how the old Greeks felt sometimes...”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 17th April [1838]
- LivyHistory of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita)Attested
“Reading Livy / An appeal to the noble or generous feelings of the Romans even from one they hated seems never to have been neglected.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · section headed 'From his journey to [M.S.?] Cincin'i' within journal dated Winter 1838-9
- Michelangelo Buonarroti and Raphael (literature about)PossiblePosthumous testimony
“had read everything that related to Michael Angelo and Raphael, Quatremere de Quincy, Condivi, Vasari, Benvenuto Cellini, and others”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · before 1839 Allston exhibition
- Elizabeth Peabody (attrib.)"Nature—A Prose Poem" (United States Magazine and Democratic Review)Attested
“Lately I have been amusing myself with looking at you through two pair of spectacles of very dissimilar construction in Brownson's review and the Democratic.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
“Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
- UNKNOWNAttested
“and reading also with delight the book on Language which I was inclined to scout— But I will talk of these when I have more room.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838
- UNKNOWNLondon and Westminster Review sketch of Armand CarrelAttested
“I read in a year since in the London and Westminster an admirable sketch of Armand Carrel.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · I read, a year since... Sept. 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re703, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“of Landor "There is a gloom in deep love as in deep water; there is a silence in it which surrounds the foot...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · From a journal kept during a short visit to Groton, August 1838
“Whately's Rhetoric is what I use. I have been reading it and thinking it over with great profit to myself.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 3d Jany 1838
“Carlyle as noble as I hoped, absorbing me quite for a fortnight, Lamb's letters, Whately's Rhetoric.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Providence 1st March 1838
1839
“Sept. 1839... The works of M. de Vigny having come in my way, I have read quite through this thick volume”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“The first portion of this volume, Servitude et Grandeurs Militaires, contains an account of the way in which he received his false tendency”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“Of the three stories which adorn this part of the book, Le Cachet Rouge is the loveliest”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“La Canne au Jonc the noblest... In La Canne au Jonc, Collingwood, who embodies the high feeling of duty”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“Cinq-Mars is a romance in the style of Walter Scott. It is well brought out”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“as he has of the Regency in 'La Marechale d'Ancre,'—a much finer work”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“Stello is a bolder attempt. It is the history of three poets,—Gilbert, Andre Chenier, Chatterton”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“He has also written a drama called Chatterton, inferior to the story here”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“His translation of Othello, which I glanced at, is good for a Frenchman”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“Among his poems, La Fregate, La Serieuse, Madame de Soubise, and Dolorida, please me especially”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Sept. 1839
“The works of M. de Vigny having come in my way I have read quite through this thick volume”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · later pencil addition, black: Sept. 1839
“but have put a sprig as a book-mark into the Life of Raphael.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · amaica Plain 17th August 1839-
- Ben JonsonAttested
“little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
“read myself to sleep with chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
“I did not value Bettine so much... I knew Bettine would end in nothing when I read her book.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re69, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“Have read J. Dwight's notes (which are excellent;)”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
- Frederick MarryatAttested
“chapters out of Vivian Grey, and Maryatt's novels, and I read the debates in Congress”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
“G. Simmons's article ... in the last Christian Examiner both of which I think would interest you.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
“But in Les Sept cordes de la Lyre which I read first, I saw the knowledge of the passions”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re220, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“Still in "André" and "Jacques" I traced the same high morality”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re221, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“Still in "André" and "Jacques" I traced the same high morality”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re222, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“But here (in the Lettres d'un Voyageur) what do I see? An unfortunate woman wailing her loneliness”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re223, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“When I read in Leone Lioni an account of the jeweller's daughter's life with her mother”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1839 (date supplied by merged witness re224, Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections))
“In 1839, she published her translation of Eckermann, a book which makes the basis of the translation of Eckermann since published in London by Mr. Oxenford”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · In 1839, she published her translation of Eckermann
“as being of the same date with my labours in Greene St, I thought it seemed to belong to your library there... [footnote: Her translation Conversations with Goethe had just been published]”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica Plains May zgth 1839
“I hope you have read my translation of Eckermann, as there you will find several of your questions about Faust answered.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica Plains 1oth June 1839
“All the time I am well enough I spend on my translation.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
“As I find that two pages of my handwriting (in which the greater part of the book lies) make one of your print, I think the volume will contain about fourhundred pages.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 21st Feby [1839]
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAttested
“I studied over parts of Goethe; and read two of Plato's dialogues”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
“I have found for instance all the Frankfort particulars in letters to Meyer. And Goethe's Darstellunggabe lends such beauty to the theme that I shall often translate”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica Plains June 3d 1839
“I will send Tasso, please be very careful of it, as I have no other copy.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton Sunday evening Jany 27th 183g
“This reflection has suggested the title of Propylæa ... Understand only from its assumption that you are to expect such conversations and lectures as might have been heard within the walls of that edifice”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 2d April 1839 (journal heading)
“Motive seine Breite. Reichthum, Fulle and Liebenswardigkeit ... Who can translate such phrases into English?”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 2d April 1839
- John SterlingAttested
“the Stirlings in two Blackwoods, and little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
- Jones VeryAttested
“Mr Very's sonnets and pieces, Jane's letters, the Stirlings in two Blackwoods”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
“I have been reading Mr Very's Hamlet. I find excellent things there and its tone is very noble.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 1839
“I have lately been reading some of Beranger's Chansons.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Sept 1839_
- PlatoAttested
“read two of Plato's dialogues, and a no of the London and Westminster”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
- PlatoAttested
“today I have been so absurd as to read nearly a volume of Plato”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Tuesday 24th [December 1839]
- PlatoAttested
“I have been reading Plato all the week, because I could not write.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 26 December 1839
“I have got a vol of Plato and other good books, but can read little.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
“I have just been reading Plato's Phaedrus, and last night I banqueted with him”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton Sunday evening Jany 27th 183g
“last night I banqueted with him,-so I think I must be tuned up to concert pitch.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton Sunday evening Jany 27th 183g
“I have only read this time Phaedrus and the Banquet, but, I have had this vol several times before.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 1839
“Thank you for the accompanying papers. The Ghosts spoke very lifelike to me who understand the language of Hades.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica Plains June 3d 1839
- Richard Monckton MilnesAttested
“I have been reading Milnes; he is rich in fine thoughts, but not in fine poetry”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 24th Novr 1839
- Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAttested
“little bits of Plato, Coleridge, Goethe and Ben Jonson”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
“There was a book of studies from Salvator Rosa, from the Brimmer Donation, at the Athenaeum, which I looked over with great delight”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 7th Jan 1839
- Theodore ParkerReview-essay of Ackermann's Christliche im Plato und in der Platonischen PhilosophieAttested
“one by T. Parker on Ackermann's Platonism of Christianity in the last Christian Examiner”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
- UNKNOWNLondon and Westminster ReviewAttested
“read two of Plato's dialogues, and a no of the London and Westminster”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 4th March 183g- [1839]
- UNKNOWNDemonstrated
“Lying broad awake and yet / Remaining from the body, and apart / In intellect, and power, and will, To hear / Time flowing in the middle of the night / And all things creeping to the day of doom.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 7th Jan 1839
- UNKNOWNDemonstrated
“I gave the world the fruit of earlier hours,_ O Solitude, reward me with some flowers, Or, if their odorous blooms thou dost deny, Rain down some meteors from the winter sky!”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Jan y 1839
- Alfred TennysonPossible
“I thought to send Tennyson this time, but I cannot part with him, it must be for next pacquet.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 24 November 1839
1840
“I send you a few slight notes I made on the Life of Michel, if you look at them when you read it”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · May 31st 1840
- Ben JonsonAttested
“I have also read a play of Ben Jonson's and Mr Brownson's review containing Frank Tuckerman's lecture.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica plain. 12th July 1840.
“I have been reading over the "Notes" which please me more and more.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Saturday eveg [25 April] 1840
“my thoughts have been so engaged that I have not found a suitable hour to reread it as I wished till last night. This second reading only confirms my impression from the first.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1st Deer. [184o]
“Arrived safe 5th inst. the beautiful poem and the letter. About the former I think it shall be published, but have as yet thought chiefly of my own pleasure in reading it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 7th Novr 1840.
“I have been reading a fine romance of Balzac's "Eugenie Grandet" I wish I could send it you”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica plain. 12th July 1840.
“Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt, Ach! der ist bald allein, Ein jeder lebt, ein jeder liebt, Und lasst ihn seiner Pein”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 25 and 28 October 1840
“When speaking of Goethe's "Farbenlehre," which delighted her with the beautiful symbolism it suggested, she says, "There was a time when one such fact would have made my day brilliant with thought, but now I seek the Divine rather in love than law.”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · It is pleasant to me that her next home, November, 1840, was at Jamaica Plain, Mass. ... It was a time of thought and exaltation
“and Mr Brownson's review containing Frank Tuckerman's lecture. It is boyish and all the materials taken from books”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica plain. 12th July 1840.
“My book of amusement has been the Evenings of St. Petersburg. I do not find the praises bestowed on it all exaggerated. Yet De Maistre is too logical for me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [8? December 1840]
“All Mrs .F. said of this girl was in perfect harmony with what De Maistre says of the saint of St Petersburg who, almost devoured by cancer, when asked, "Quelle est Ia premiere grace...”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 13th Deer. [1840]
“I have been reading in Shelley's journals how he continued to suffer in Italy”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Saturday eveg [25 April] 1840
“I do not look at Shelley's journals &c for me, but for him He inspires tenderness.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · May 31st 1840
“Theatetus I read with attention and great profit.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Endorsed 1840
“In the midst of Philebus I was compelled to stop.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Endorsed 1840
“I went into the woods and read a little book called "Nature" through for the first time.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 12th April 1840, 'Yesterday was the first day of spring'
- Ralph Waldo EmersonAttested
“we read all Mr. E's letters to both of us this summer. They make a volume, and passages are finer than any thing he has published.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 8th Novr [184o]
- Richard HildrethA Letter to Andrews Norton, on Miracles as the Foundation of Religious FaithAttested
“Also that a new pamphlet cometh forth next week of which I have read some pages whilk seemed, to use Scotch Caution, wee! aneugh.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 12th April 1840
- UNKNOWNNorth American Review, April 1840 (article on the Allston Exhibition)Attested
“Since the above was written, we see an article on the Exhibition in the North American Review for April, 1840.”
Papers on Literature and Art · Since the above was written... North American Review for April, 1840
“Old Signior, walk aside with me. I have studied eight or nine wise words to speak with you, which these hobby horses must not hear.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 20 Jan 1840
1841
“I meant to have translated for you the best passages of "Die Gunderode" (which I prefer to the correspondence with Goethe.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 19 February 1841
“I meant to have translated the best passages of 'Die Gunderode,' — which I prefer to Bettine's correspondence with Goethe.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'Feb. 19, 1841'
“Who is well entered in these wayes / Fittst man to read my fifty layes. / But whom lust, wrath, and fear controul / Scarce know their body from their soul”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Jan [1841 - inferred from heading '5th Jan' with pencil addition '1841']
“I have been reading, most of the day, the "Farbenlehre." The facts interest me only in their mystical significance.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday, 21 February 1841
“I had in my mind the apparition of Isis, as described by Apuleius, Behold I saw in a dream a divine form emerging from the middle of the sea...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Jamaica, 20th July 1841; citation 'Taylor's trans. of Apuleius p 260.'
- PlatoAttested
“In reading Plato, in looking at these designs it is impossible not to feel as if our race on the whole knew then its destination.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Jamaica, 20th July 1841
- UNKNOWNLife of BeethovenAttested
“When I read his life I said I will never repine.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [1 April 1841]
- UNKNOWNaccount of the monks of MeteoraDemonstrated
“Thus do the monks of Meteora cast their nets into the world, drawing up sometimes an inquisitive traveller...thus they once drew up an Emperor (John Cantacuzene)”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Jamaica, 20th July 1841
“to day looking over the books I found a number of the W. Messenger in which you write of Evil and cast out those same suggestions as in your letter to me. I read it with profound interest.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 25th Eveg [February 1841]
1842
“In Dora, Locksley Hall, the Two Voices, Morte D'Arthur, I find my own life, much of it, written truly out.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'August, 1842. Cambridge'
“In Dora, Locksley Hall, the Two Voices, Morte D'Arthur, I find my own life, much of it, written truly out.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'August, 1842. Cambridge'
“In Dora, Locksley Hall, the Two Voices, Morte D'Arthur, I find my own life, much of it, written truly out.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'August, 1842. Cambridge'
“In Dora, Locksley Hall, the Two Voices, Morte D'Arthur, I find my own life, much of it, written truly out.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 'August, 1842. Cambridge'
“I have just been reading the new poems of Tennyson.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · August 1842
“I finished the 1st no Giinderode last night, it will be out early next week. The two vols are to be translated in four numbers.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston, March 8th, 1842.
“I thought you would like a copy of Giinderode for yourself specially, please accept this from me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · In 1842 Fuller published her translation of part of Bettina von Arnim's Die Gilnderode.
“In an English book I read last year, by Capel Lofft, which, under the somewhat oldmaidish title of Self-Formation, contains free and accurate descriptions of mental life”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · letter dated Cambridge 6th Novr 1843; "In an English book I read last year"
“An edition of Cary's translation... studious youths and maidens have been reading the Inferno. Margaret had very early found her way to Dante”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · December, 1842
“you seemed to think I might perhaps have done something on the Vita Nuova... I intended to translate the poems, with which it is interspersed, into plain prose”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · December, 1842
“26 Dec. 1842.—I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · 26 Dec. 1842
- first Baron Herbert of Cherbury Edward HerbertAn Ode upon a Question 'Moved, Whether Love Should Continue for Ever'Demonstrated
“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch, Much less your fairest mind invade... Our equal loves can make them such.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17th Deer 1842
- first Baron Herbert of Cherbury Edward HerbertThe Life of Edward Lord Herbert of Cherbury Written by HimselfAttested
“I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 26 December 1842
“Do you not admire Lord Herbert's two poems on life, and the conjectures concerning celestial life? I keep reading them.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 26 December 1842
- EuripidesAttested
“and some dramas of Euripides, and, were envy" ever worth our while, I should deeply envy those who can with convenience gain access to the Greek mind”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Canton, 12th May 1842
- HerodotusAttested
“I have been reading Herodotus. I find these Greeks, though I can only read them in translations the most healthful and satisfactory companions.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 11th August, 1842.
“Fuller undoubtedly got the story from Karl Simrock, Rheinsagen... she reviewed the 1841 reissue... where she translated a portion of the ballad”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · she reviewed the 1841 reissue in her "Romaic and Rhine Ballads," Dial 3 (October 1842)
“I have been reading the lives of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and of Sir Kenelm Digby.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 26 December 1842
- PlatoAttested
“I had before known only the Socrates of Plato, one much more to my mind.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17 June [1842]
“Saadi I have read many times.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 16th Oct [1842]
“Your essay I have read with delight, but it is true the passage about fate is weak”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 16th Oct [1842]
- William Ellery ChanningAttested
“reading your journals and Ellery's book, and talking with you in the study”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 16th Oct [1842]
“While here I have been reading (only in translation, alas!) the Cyropaedia and other works of Xenophon”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Canton, 12th May 1842
“In my quiet retreat I read Xenophon, and became more acquainted with his Socrates.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17 June [1842]
Inferred · An April 1842 "Borrow" is more likely The Zincali (1841) than The Bible in Spain, which was not published until December 1842; The Bible in Spain is not asserted without evidence.
“S. Clarke to make up for you of Borrow, Longfellow, some more shreds of Dial”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 18 April 1842
- Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPossible
“S. Clarke to make up for you of Borrow, Longfellow, some more shreds of Dial”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 18 April 1842
1843
“Margaret quotes from Mrs. Schoolcraft and from Mrs. Grant passages”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · Summer on the Lakes, summer 1843
“One book she gave me was Elizabeth Barrett's poems, which were very dear to her... She particularly spoke at that time of the poem called "The Swan's Nest.”
Mem-1 Recollections of Richard F. Fuller · During Richard's last two years in college (Margaret rented house on Ellery street during his last two years, i.e. c. 1843-1844)
- Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)Attested
“She is reading Petrarch with me: she feels very truly the beauty and dignity of his nature.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 16th Jany [1843]
“At Chicago I read again Philip Van Artevelde, and certain passages in it will always be in my mind associated with the deep sound of the lake”
Summer on the Lakes · At Chicago I read again
“Margaret quotes from Mrs. Schoolcraft and from Mrs. Grant passages which assert that this inferiority does not run through the whole life of an Indian woman”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · Summer on the Lakes, summer 1843
“When Goethe received a letter from Zelter, with a handsome superscription, he said, "Lay that aside; it is Zelter's true hand-writing..." You may perceive, I quote from memory”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 12 December 1843
“It is Sunday. I have been reading Messenger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · New Years Day 1843.
“It is Sunday. I have been reading Messenger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · New Years Day 1843.
“It is Sunday. I have been reading Messenger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · New Years Day 1843.
“I have been reading Messenger's Fatal Dowry and Duke of Milan”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · New Years Day 1843.
“Hints on A and A, I enjoyed reading again with Sarah; their strength and sense make me proud.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Chicago, 4th August, 1843
“Carlyle's book I have, in some sense, read. It is witty, full of pictures, as usual... except the Goethean, Do to-day the nearest duty.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1 June 1843, Niagara
- UNKNOWNold travel narratives of the WestAttested
“while I am reading the books in the College library about the West, the old travellers I am reading.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge 12th Novr 1843
“William addressed them in the morning on the destiny of the Earth, and then I read aloud Ellery's poem "The Earth".”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Night preceding New year's day 1844
“I have read a shallow book Howitt's Germany, shallow, but with items not to be found elsewhere.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · gth May. [1843]
“Books which she did not think it necessary to give she would place in my hands as tenant-in-common with her... Thus she did with Shakspeare, a fine edition which her Providence scholars had presented to her”
Mem-1 Recollections of Richard F. Fuller · During Richard's last two years in college, c. 1843-1844
“The quality of Mercy is not strained not winnowed and double sifted like Charity for "discovering objects." But droppeth like the gentle dew from heaven, alike on the careful and the careless”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · letter dated Niagara 30th May [18]43
“and Wordsworth, made precious by her marks of emphatic approbation. These books I now have.”
Mem-1 Recollections of Richard F. Fuller · During Richard's last two years in college, c. 1843-1844
1844
“As to Gunderode, I should like much to have the copies boxed up, after having been counted. Should I ever get a name, probably I may be able to finish the translation on good terms”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · New York 26th Deer 1844
“My God, my strength, my hope."... "Bold to take up, firm to sustain, The consecrated cross”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 4th August [1844]
- ConfuciusAttested
“studied much in evenings, Taylor's translations of the old Greek writers, the Confucious, the Desater, and Alkuna, a Scandinavian mythology, have been my best books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
“He sent through V on Raumer a copy of my translation to Dr Eckermann.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 15th Octr 1844
“Alone myself I have begun the day, by reading Waldo's book. But the Essays did not chime with in-door life either this morning.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [3? November 18441
“Your book I have read quite through some of it in the neighborhood of hawks and such like. It will be a companion through my life.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17th N ovr 1844
- Richard F. FullerAttested
“Your piece I have read with many thoughts but am not likely to get time to write them, before you come home.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston 2d Feby 1844
“It seems to me these lines of Flecknoe's would please her. Still born Silence, from that art Flood gate of the deeper heart,...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Character of Sarah Clarke. as read by Miss Parsons from a letter. March 1844.
- Thomas JacksonThe Life of Charles Wesley, Comprising a Review of his Poetry, and Sketches of the Rise and Progress of MethodismAttested
“THE LIFE OF CHARLES WESLEY... By Thomas Jackson. New-York, 1844... We have lately read it”
Papers on Literature and Art · By Thomas Jackson. New-York, 1844.
- Thomas TaylorAttested
“studied much in evenings, Taylor's translations of the old Greek writers, the Confucious, the Desater, and Alkuna, a Scandinavian mythology, have been my best books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
- UNKNOWNLife of Countess Emily PlaterAttested
“This fluctuation was obvious in a narrative I have lately seen, the story of the life of Countess Emily Plater, the heroine of the last revolution in Poland. ... Her portrait is to be seen in the book...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · "a narrative I have lately seen"
- UNKNOWNThe Desatir, or Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian ProphetsAttested
“The Desatir I want to keep awhile for Sunday reading.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17th N ovr 1844
- UNKNOWNThe DesatirAttested
“studied much in evenings, Taylor's translations of the old Greek writers, the Confucious, the Desater, and Alkuna, a Scandinavian mythology, have been my best books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
- UNKNOWNEdda (Alkuna, Scandinavian mythology)Attested
“the Confucious, the Desater, and Alkuna, a Scandinavian mythology, have been my best books.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
“I have also read with great delight Landor's Pentameron, rejoicing to find a book of his that is new to me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
“H[ow]ever I have him much by heart and own the Pericles and Aspasia.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 23d Novr 1844
“Just now, looking in Pericles and Aspasia for something else...I came upon the poem, "You build your nest Aspasia”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Friday evening, May 3d [1844]
1845
“It was translations from the Nova Vita and Convito of Dante. The Vita Nova has been one of the most cherished companions of my life.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 13th Septr 45
“Since you went I have been looking over the "The Crescent and the Cross" a book of Eastern travels; there are in the Appendix "Hints to travellers in the East”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Thursday evening, 5th June, 1845
“The beautiful are never desolate For some one always loves them, God or man, If man forsakes — God himself takes them,”
Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller · Sunday evening, 27th April.
“Margaret speaks at some length of Balzac's novel Le Pere Goriot, which she had just read”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · essay on French novelists, in Life Without and Life Within
- Journeymen Carpenters of ParisLetter (translated in The Social Movement in Europe)Demonstrated
“I have been much interested by the letter of the Carpenters and the homage paid to the Mother of the Carpenters by them!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · N. Y. 12th August, 1845
“Mutter, ach Mutter! Es hungert mich / Gieb mir Brodt, sonst sterbe ich. The first is a Volkslied of your adopted nation”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · New York, 24thjune, 1845
“The poem of which we here give a prose translation lately appeared in Germany. It is written by Moritz Hartmann, and contains the gist of the matter.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · "lately appeared in Germany"
“The beautiful are never desolate; For some one alway loves them, God or Man. If man forsakes God himself takes them.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday evening 27th April [1845]; footnote: 'Slightly misquoted from Festus, p. 48'
“Last night came your book Foscolo on Petrarch. I have read this book but am very glad to own it”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 13th Septr 45
- UNKNOWNAttested
“Last night I thought of writing Anna L. the promised note, but did not feel like it, so read a German book instead.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [27 March 1845]
- UNKNOWNAttested
“At last I have had a still time to read over the translation by Lear and enjoyed it much.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Deer 3d 1845
- UNKNOWNthe story of PantheaAttested
“it has given me time to read the translation of the story of Panthea, in which Richard's pen was aided by your Mother and father and you as judges and reformers.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3d Deer 1845
1846
“The Spanish Student might also be acted, though with no great effect. All the means of action The shapeless masses, the materials.”
Papers on Literature and Art · now before me
“I am much pleased to hear your feeling of Margaret... a distinction of which I am not a little proud, now that I have read his book. He is a clergyman, but, it seems, has not for that forgot to be a Man.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · London, 6th Octr 1846
- UNKNOWNThe Tragedy of WitchcraftDemonstrated
“As the tragedy of Witchcraft has not been published... it may not be amiss to afford the reader a further opportunity of passing his judgment on this production by a few extracts”
Papers on Literature and Art · letter... giving an account of its first performance... From the Evening Post, New York, May 6th... Philadelphia, Tuesday, May 5, 1846.
- UNKNOWNAttested
“I have read the play with great pleasure. The view of character and statements of magnetic influence from soul to soul is truly noble... Tell the author's name; is it yours?”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · none (undated; sequenced between letters of late June 1846)
“L. Have you been reading the play of late? A. Yes; hearing Macready, one or two points struck me that have not before, and I was inclined to try for my thousandth harvest from a new study of it.”
Papers on Literature and Art · hearing Macready; my thousandth harvest from a new study of it
“and in the sonnet, Why art thou silent. Why art thou silent? Is thy love a plant Of such weak fibre that the treacherous air Of absence withers what was once so fair?”
Papers on Literature and Art · in the last published volume of his poems, though probably written many years before
1847
- Adam MickiewiczDemonstrated
“Parvenue au sentiment de son droit inne de prendre acte de son existence... [character analysis addressed to Fuller]”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Feby 1847 (date on the Mickiewicz text quoted); letter itself dated 19th Jany 1849
“Since I came, I have read two charming stories recently written by her.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Paris, 18 January 1847; footnote: Fuller read Teverino (Brussells, 1845), which was published in Paris in 1846
“Since I came, I have read two charming stories recently written by her.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Paris, 18 January 1847; footnote: and La Mare au diable, which had been published in the Courrier francais, 6-15 February 1846
“the Librarian of the Chamber of Deputies to show her the manuscripts of Rousseau, which she found just as he has celebrated them”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · her Paris visit, winter 1846-47
1848
“I am again reading Nieb[uh]r this winter and if I get time shall read [ ] also.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 7th Deer 1848; I am again reading Niebuhr this winter
“I have realized in these last days the thought of Goethe,— "He who would in loneliness live, ah! he is soon alone. Each one loves, each one lives, and leaves him to his pain.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Rieti, July 11, 1848 (letter heading)
“A letter from Mazzini to Pope Pius, printed in Paris, had reached Italy by this time, and was translated by Margaret for publication in the New York Tribune”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · context of New Year's day events, early 1848
- Massimo d'AzeglioNiccolo de' LapiAttested
“Thus I read Nicolo di' Lapi, a book unenlivened by a spark of genius, but interesting, to me, as illustrative of Florence.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Thence [from Perugia to Florence], Margaret writes... (arrived end of September, 1848 per surrounding narrative)
1849
“reading Louis Blanc's Ten Years, Lamartine's Girondists, and other books of that class”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · none (context: Florence, winter 1849-50)
- Barthold Georg NiebuhrAttested
“I study sometimes Niebuhr, and other books about Rome, but not to any great profit.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 5 February 1849
“I have read "La Rome Souterraine" of Didier, and it makes me wish to see Ardea and N ettuno.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 5 February 1849
“2 d Jany Reading "La Rome Souterraine" by Charles Didier a faithful ardent picture of this city in the past.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 2 d Jan y Reading "La Rome Souterraine" by Charles Didier
“Also an attempt to paint her in Eugene Sue's Martin the Valet de Chambre which would interest you to read I think. I read it, translated into Italian, when I was getting well.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome. 8 March. 1849
“This book of hers I have read "II Piccinino," is very feeble”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome, 18th March 1849
“When I read from your hand these words "il lungo esilio teste ricominciato...”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Rome 3 March, 1849
“Read "Ricordi ai Giovani d. Italia" by Mazzini. O word of fire. O thought pure solid illustrations on diamond.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · entry follows dated section beginning 'Rome 1st Jany 1849' and precedes '6th Instead of the Pope...' entry
“Letter of Mazzini in answer to the annunciation that he is made a Roman citizen and delegate to the Roman Constitutional Assembly. al Presidente dell' Assemblea Censtituente Romana. Cittadino Presidente: Vent'anni d'esiglio...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · Firenze 25 Febbrajo 1849. Giuseppe Mazzini.
- Massimo d'AzeglioNiccolò de' LapiAttested
“Thus I read "Nicolo Di' Lapi," a book unenlivened by a spark of genius; but it interested me as illustrating Florence.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence, 30 Sept. 49 (letter dateline; describes recent reading during stay near Perugia)
- Massimo d'AzeglioNicolo dei LapiPossiblePosthumous testimony
“she remained long enough to read D'Azeglio's Nicolo dei Lapi, which she esteemed a book unenlivened by a spark of genius, but interesting as illustrative of Florence”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · stay at Perugia after leaving Rieti, autumn 1849
“When you first showed me Pippa passes I did not foresee what pleasant hours I should pass with the writer, only that writer I never see.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 17 December 1849] (letter dateline)
“I am just reading Macaulay's new history which seems even more brilliant and fascinating than his previous writings.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence. 2nd Dec. 1849 (letter dateline); "I am just reading Macaulay's new history"
- UNKNOWNThe Last Days of the Republic in RomeAttested
“Reading a book called "The Last Days of the Republic in Rome," I see that my letter, giving my impressions of that period, may well have seemed to you strangely partial.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [August, 1849]
1850
“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1? February 1850] (letter dateline)
“Margaret read, this winter, Louis Blanc's Story of Ten Years, and Lamartine's Girondists”
Mem-4 Margaret Fuller by Julia Ward Howe · winter in Florence, 1849-50
“next read I the novel by the Author of Jane Eyre, now known as Miss Bronte.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence, 15th March 1850 (letter dateline)
“I have been more occupied by reading- Louis Blanc's "Ten Years", LaMartine, and other books, which throw light on recent transactions.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 1? February 1850] (letter dateline); 'this last two months...I have been more occupied by reading'
“have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class, where were some facts I wanted.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline)
“I have there read again Browning's Poems, having borrowed from him the new edition.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence, 15th March 1850 (letter dateline)
“I have felt like reading more than for some years past, have read Macaulay's History of the James 2nd Period, Louis Blanc's Ten Years, and many books of that class”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline); 'have read...this winter'
- William Francis LynchNarrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead SeaAttested
“These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea, a book interesting for its subject”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline); 'these few evenings past'
“I have read your poems with love several times, once during the only good day I have had amid the trees and flowers.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence, wth May, 1850
Undated
The evidence of reading is documented; the occasion is not internally dated. These events are excluded from the lifeline and from chronological counts.
“in connection with another very interesting book, Clarke's "Memoirs of the Wesley Family," and have been led to far deeper interest”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Alessandro ManzoniDemonstrated
“Tutti fatti a sembianza d'an Solo, Figli tutti d'un solo riscatto..." [footnoted '* Manzoni.']”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Beautiful passages from Manzoni. "Che dolermi dovea?..." Ode _ In morte di Napoleone (Il cinque Maggio.) Ei fu:siccome immobile,”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I am sorry that Tennyson, who spoke with such fitness of all the others in his 'Dream of fair women,' has not of Iphigenia... Of Jeptha's daughter, he has spoken... 'I heard Him, for He spake, and grief became A solemn scorn of ills.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“The equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“From La Martini's ode to Bonaparte. "On dit qu'aux derniers jours de sa longue agonie, Devant l'éternité seul avec son génie,”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I have finished Brigham on the influence of mental cultivation on Health”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · none in this section
“I remember well her exclamations as I repeatedly rendered Anacreon's rodos rose-tree.”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
- AnacreonAttested
“at other times, read all of Homer, Juvenal, Ovid, Anacreon and other books”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“The few stories Mrs. Jameson wrote out, though to these also a sentimental air has been given, offend much less in that way than is common in this book.”
Summer on the Lakes
“But to return to Handel. The only biography of him I have seen is a little volume from the library of the University at Cambridge”
Papers on Literature and Art
“—Bombet, p. 180... He knew the principal works of that great master by heart... —Ibid. p. 291.”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de QuincyHistoire de la vie et des ouvrages de Raphael (life of Raphael)Attested
“To-day I have finished the life of Raphael, by Quatremere de Quincy, which has so long engaged me.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere de QuincyLives of Michelangelo and RaphaelPossiblePosthumous testimony
“She read, pen in hand, Quatremère de Quincy's lives of those two painters, and I have her transcripts and commentary before me”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Good. Mr Schindler is much vexed at Ries's sprightly anecdotes... He also finds Ries was too young, to see Beethoven...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Ich fand Beethoven mit dem Promemoria in der hand: Er überreichte es mit ungewöhnlicher Ruhe mir...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Apollonius RhodiusArgonauticaDemonstrated
“So that I often recollect what is said of the poet Phineas in the Argonautics: 'A stupor deep his cloudy temples bound, And when he waked he seemed as whirUng round, Or in a feeble trance he speechless lay.”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Barry CornwallPossiblePosthumous testimony
“She felt in full the thought of a poem which she once copied for me from Barry Cornwall...'She was not fair, nor full of grace”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“The following extract from Spinoza is worthy of attention... SPINOZA. TRACTATUS POLITICI, DE DEMOCRATIA, CAPUT XI. "Perhaps some one will here ask, whether the supremacy of man over woman is attributable to nature or custom?”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“I meant the day-star should not brighter rise, ... The rock, the spindle, and the shears control Of destiny, and spin her own free hours.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“So in the noble passage of Ben Jonson: 'I meant the day-star should not brighter ride, Nor shed like influence from its lucent seat...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- Ben JonsonDemonstrated
“Alcuni versi che scrissi nel mio Ben Jonson - sopra mare - quando passai da N. O. - per la Havana. Content thee - for without content The sharpest edge of joy is gone...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Disse Goethe a Bettine, "Love me for ever." Ed ella rispose "Sì" Ecco il segreto - lui ebbe bisogno del di lei amore...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“On the road from Florence to Pisa. 'Oh talk not to me of a name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our joy...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Murray's travels I read, and was charmed by their accuracy and clear broad tone.”
Summer on the Lakes
“Lines to a friend on his marriage. C. Lamb. What makes a happy wedlock. What has Fate Not given to thee in thy well chosen Mate?”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Who but the Holy Ghost can make / A genuine gospel minister, / A bishop bold to undertake / Of precious souls the awful care!”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Claude Adrien HelvetiusAttested
“J'ai lu le livre si attendu de M. Helvetius. Je suis effrayée par sa grosseur, — deux volumes de six cents pages chacun...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- ConfuciusAttested
“At one time I used to change from reading Confucius to one of the great religious books of another Eastern nation”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
- ConfuciusAttested
“I feel that I know something of the Chinese when reading Confucius, or looking at the figures on their tea-cups”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“A series of poems, called 'Man in the Republic,' by Cornelius Mathews... To strike or bear, to conquer or to yield / Teach thou! O topmost crown of duty, teach”
Papers on Literature and Art
“A worthy account of the vocation and duties of the journalist, is given by Cornelius Mathews... As shakes the canvass of a thousand ships”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Witchcraft, a tragedy,' brought out successfully upon the boards at Philadelphia, we have read, and it is a work of strong and majestic lineaments”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Count ZinzendorfDemonstrated
“Such a pilgrim Count Zinzendorf seems to have found in his Countess, of whom he thus writes: 'Twenty-five years' experience has shown me...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · Twenty-five years' experience
“La lie venimmo: e lo scagllon primaio ... Umilmente che 'l serrame scioglia. Dante.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Dante AlighieriAttested
“when I turned to my Dante where I had lately been reading with strong interest I found my mind was no longer there”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“one of the most brilliantly factitious writers of the day has paid him so feeling a tribute: How must thy lone and lofty soul have gone. From Stanzas addressed by Bulwer to Wordsworth.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Nydia's love-song. E. L. Bulwer. The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose And the Rose loved one;”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Nourished by passion, spent in strife / Gleams as of drowned antiquity / From cities underneath the sea / Which glooms in famous Galilee.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- first Baron Herbert of Cherbury Edward HerbertDemonstrated
“It is intended... poems of Lord Herbert, which... were so to none in this part of the world. The only desire in translating them has [been] to do so literally”
Papers on Literature and Art
“(From the Latin of Lord Herbert.) LIFE. First, the life stirred within the genial seed, Seeking its properties, whence plastic power Was born.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“CONJECTURES CONCERNING THE HEAVENLY LIFE. Purified in my whole genius, I congratulate myself Secure of fate...”
Papers on Literature and Art
- first Baron Herbert of Cherbury Edward HerbertThe Life of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury (autobiography)Demonstrated
“The following narration, published by Lord Herbert, in his life, has often been made use of by his opponents... Having many conscientious doubts whether or no to publish his book, De Veritate...”
Papers on Literature and Art
- first Baron Herbert of Cherbury Edward HerbertOde upon a Question Moved, Whether Love Should Continue ForeverDemonstrated
“And shall our love, so far beyond / That low and dying appetite, / And which so chaste desires unite. / Not hold in an eternal bond!”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Since writing the above, I have read with great satisfaction, the following sonnets addressed to George Sand by a woman... it is a source of pride and happiness to read this address from the heart of Elizabeth Barrett.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · Since writing the above, I have read... published five or six years ago
“PERPLEXED MUSIC. "Experience, like a pale musician, holds A dulcimer of patience in his hand...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“is the "Rhyme of the Duchess May," equally admirable in thought and execution ... Low she dropt her head and lower, till her hair coiled on the floor.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST. How sweetly natural! and how distinct the picture of the little girl, as she sits by the brook.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“LADY GERALDINE'S COURTSHIP. Her foot upon the new-mown grass bareheaded with the flowing Of the virginal white vesture...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“this paragraph from her Preface: "If it were not presumptuous language on the lips of one to whom life is more than usually uncertain, my favourite wish for this work would be...”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningDemonstrated
“Till another open for me In God's Eden-land unknown ... All is lost, and won. Elizabeth Barrett.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Elizabeth Barrett BrowningDemonstrated
“My heart is very tired, -- my strength is lo-^, -- My hands are full of blossoms plucked before, Held dead withia them till myself shall die. Elizabeth Barrett.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Glory to God! to God! he saith. Knowledge by suffering entereth. And Life is perfected by Death.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“God keeps a niche / In Heaven to hold our idols! And albeit / He breaks them to our faces, and denies / That our close kisses should impair them..." (Small caps) [underlined: Sad Welcome Home.]”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Eugene SueDemonstrated
“And thirdly, I subjoin Eugene Sue's description of a wicked, but able woman of the practical sort, ... (Mother Saint Perpetua)”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“With what artless art the narrative rises to the crisis. The conflicts in Agamemnon's mind... 'Ah me! It is that breast, those cheeks, those golden tresses!”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“or in the "Supplicants," after the voluntary death of Evadne, says: 'What shall this wretch now do? Should I return to my own house?”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“In the "Trojan dames" there are fine touches of nature with regard to Cassandra. Hecuba shows that mixture of shame and reverence...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“You did not give me back with Iphigenia leaves in the handwriting of E. Hoar, exact translations of my extracts made by her from the Greek for me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
- F. W. FaberDemonstrated
“There is a deep, clear mind, no inward change, Nor outward visitation get hath shocked Thy heart into a consciousness of power F. W. Faber.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Francesco BerniDemonstrated
“Lines suggested by the lines of Berni ... "Molte commodita ci ha date Iddio &c / Full many a solace has our Father given”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch)Trionfo della MorteDemonstrated
“D'alcun bel frutto Nasce da me, da voi vien prima il seme... La Morte è fin diuna prigion oscura Agli animi gentili, agli altri è noia Si hanno poste nel fango ogni lor cura.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“LODI E PREGHIERE A MARIA. Vergine bella che di sol vestita, Coronata di stelle, al sommo Sole Piacesti si, che'n te sua luce ascose...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- Francesco PetrarchDemonstrated
“Che luce e questa, e qual nuova beltate? ... Si paragona pur coi piii perfetti. Petearca.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Francesco PetrarchAttested
“After I had cast the burden of my cares upon you, I rested, and read Petrarch for a day or two.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“than by the interpretation of Bacon upon the legends of the Syren coast. When the wise Ulysses passed, says he, he caused his mariners to stop their ears with wax...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“I read Huber on bees in this way, and the busy insects who began their ingenious labors during the few minutes before sleep buzzed in the dreams of my brief siesta.”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
- Franz LisztAttested
“From a letter of Liszt read 1st June - apropos I think_ For a musician now to travel in Italy it is necessary that he should be, like myself, greedy of the sun”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · read 1st June
“Noche serena. Por Fr Luis Ponce de Leon. Cuando contemplo el cielo / De innumerables luces adornado... In a soft moonlight evening By Luis Ponce de Leon.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Frederick DouglassNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by HimselfAttested
“Considered merely as a narrative, we have never read one more simple, true, coherent, and warm with genuine feeling.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“I open the Boston Daily Mail, and find in its 'poet's corner,' a translation of Schiller's 'Dignity of Woman.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · "This morning, I open the Boston Daily Mail"
“Lessing, Schiller, Richter, Tieck, Novalis, and, above all, Goethe”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Friedrich SchillerIntroduction to the Wars of the League (Geschichte des dreissigjährigen Kriegs)Attested
“Reading Schiller's introduction to the Wars of the League, I have been led back to my old friend, the Duke of Sully”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Your Schiller has already given me great pleasure. I have been reading the 'Revolt in the Netherlands' with intense interest”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“translation from Korner trans from Schiller ie Thekla's Geister Stimme”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · It was just before we went to Andover that they were written
- Friedrich SchillerGeschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande (Revolt in the Netherlands)Attested
“Your Schiller has already given me great pleasure. I have been reading the "Revolt in the Netherlands" with intense interest and have reflected much upon it.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
“Im Munde der Guten und Besten Schallen vergeblich; ihr Klang ist leer... Das Rechte, das Gute findet ewig Streit, Nie wird der Fiend ihm entiezen.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Read Schiller all the afternoon I wish I could write a play like Wallenstein and pour on fine [illegible] just such poetry - then die.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- George CatlinLetters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American IndiansAttested
“Catlin's book is far the best. I was afterwards assured by those acquainted with the regions he describes, that he is not to be depended on for the accuracy of his facts”
Summer on the Lakes
“O, that I were an orange tree, / That busy plant! / Then should I ever laden be, / And never want / Some fruit for him that dresseth me.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Prayer—the church's banquet angel's age; God's breath in man returning to his birth... The land of spices something understood.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“My joy, my life, my crown / My heart was meaning all the day / Somewhat it fain would say”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Whereas my birth and spirits rather took / The way that takes the town / Thou didst betray me to a lingering book, / And wrap me in a gown.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“as Herbert says:—Sundays the pillars are / On which Heaven's palace arched lies; / The other days fill up the space / And hollow room with vanities”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
“Although I have been much engaged these two days, I have read Spiridion twice”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“I greatly enjoyed his readings in Hamlet, and have reviewed in connexion what Goethe and Coleridge have said. Both have successfully seized on the main points in the character of Hamlet”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“she had read German books, and for the three years before I knew her, almost exclusively,—Lessing, Schiller, Richter, Tieck, Novalis, and, above all, Goethe”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- H. H. S.An Inscription written for the Botanic Garden (translation from the Swedish)Demonstrated
“An Inscription written for the Botanic Garden, and a translation from the Swedish. A Lover of Flora, a Companion of Linnaeus Emanuel Edelhjertha...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Laube says in his late work, called "Three royal cities of the North," "King Oscar still lives in the second story of the castle at Stockholm...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“When vigor failed the towering fantasy, But yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion by the love impelled That moves the sun in heaven, and all the stars.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Schoolcraft's Algic Researches is a valuable book, though a worse use could hardly have been made of such fine material.”
Summer on the Lakes
“Early rising and prayer, by Henry Vaughan 1695. When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · by Henry Vaughan 1695
“In 'Nuremberg' are charming passages... will quote it. NUREMBERG. In the alley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow lands...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“it is from one of the new poems, addressed to Driving Cloud, 'chief of the mighty Omahaws.' Wrapt in thy scarlet blanket I see thee stalk through the city's Narrow and populous streets”
Papers on Literature and Art
“By Jorge Manrique on the death of his father / O! let the soul its slumber break, / Arouse its senses and awake...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- HerodotusAttested
“I read in Greek all of Herodotus, Thucydides, etc., and in Latin the whole of Livy, Tacitus, etc. Herodotus was pleasant;”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
- HomerAttested
“at other times, read all of Homer, Juvenal, Ovid, Anacreon and other books including almost all of Plato and many of the Greek dramas”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“We have just been reading "Le Pere Goriot," Balzac's most celebrated work; a remarkable production...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“We have just been reading 'Le Pere Goriot,' Balzac's most celebrated work; a remarkable production”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · 'We have just been reading'
“? Le Pere Goriot! I had no idea of Balzac's power from his other books that I have read. But I shrank from these [illegible] and pestilential morasses in human nature...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I have just been reading "Le Père Goriot" his most celebrated work.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Read Ugo Foscolo's Sepolcri, and Pindemonti's answer, but could not relish either”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Italian poets (unspecified)Attested
“the window where I used to read the Italian poets, in young days.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · reference to young days; letter dated 16 Oct 1842
- J. F. C.Father! we ask (hymn)Demonstrated
“Father! we ask The strong conviction which thy spirit brings To touch the secret springs" ... J. F. C.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“The life of Bach which I have before me, (translated from the German of J. N. Forkel, author also of the 'Complete History of Music,') is by far the best of any of these records.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Blessed to be the hour in which you lent me "Bigelow's Elements" - I have studied the Architecture attentively till I feel quite mistress of it all.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
“We would here pay a tribute to our countryman Hillhouse, whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · whose Hadad, read at a very early age, we remember with much delight
- Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter)TitanAttested
“Tell [ ] that I read "Titan" by myself, in the afternoons and evenings of about three weeks.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
“Lessing, Schiller, Richter, Tieck, Novalis, and, above all, Goethe”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Jean Paul RichterAttested
“Richter says, the childish heart vies in the height of its surges with the manly...How thoroughly am I converted to the love of Jean Paul”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · Groton
“Tell that I read 'Titan' by myself, in the afternoons and evenings of about three weeks.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“who, that reads Joanna Baillie's address to Mrs. Siddons. The impassioned changes of thy beauteous face, Thy arms impetuous tost.”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Johann Georg WinckelmannAttested
“Have finished Winkelman - Life of gratified impulses and untamed eagerness - too delightful”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Since I came home, I have been consulting Buhle's and Tennemann's histories of philosophy, and dipping into Brown, Stewart, and that class of books.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Johann Ludwig UhlandDemonstrated
“What says the benign Uhland? If our first lays too piteous have been, And you have feared our tears would never cease.”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Johann Ludwig UhlandVarious poems (An den Tod, Maiklage, Lob des Frühlings, Freie Kunst, etc.)Demonstrated
“Vom Uhland "Anfangs sind wir fast zu kläglich, Strömen endlos Thränen aus,”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“First journey to Italy 1786. Cemetery at Verona. A hill planted with roses wafts an enchanting fragrance over this cemetery.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · First journey to Italy 1786 (within quoted text)
“So let me seem until I be:-Take not the white robe away." ... Though I lived without care and toil, Yet felt I sharp pain enough, Make me again forever young.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Jene himmlische Gestalten / Sie fragen nicht nach Mann und Weib... The child who sang this was a prophetic form... She could not remain here, but was transplanted to another air.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Hail to the Unknown, the Higher Being Felt within us!”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“There is an English translation (I know not how good) of Goethe's Iphigenia... I will give a sketch of the drama”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDemonstrated
“Do you ask the genius,' said Goethe, 'to give an account of what he has taken from others. As well demand of the hero an account of the beeves and loaves which have nourished him to such martial stature.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“O friend, how flat and tasteless such a life!...'Naturliche Tochter.' Translated by Margaret”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAttested
“I have felt that so much lately in reading his lyrick poems- I am enchanted while I read”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
“If we can conceive it possible," said he, "that the Creator of the world himself assumed the form of his creature...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“you employ the word sacrifice," I answered here... "Blame them not for it" said Wilhelm rather pity them!”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Thou regardest me as guilty; I am so; but not as thou thinkest..." Mariana's letter.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“It is your affair to try and choose, it is ours to aid you.. A man is never happy till his vague striving has truly marked out its proper limitation." dit Jarns.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Extract from the introduction to Goethe's Propylea. ... The youth when first attracted by Nature and Art believes that by sufficiently determined effort he may press at once into that sanctuary...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Wilhelm Meister translate Passage p 46”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I Maxims- G. - O for all- How is Man to become acquainted with himself? By reflection (solely?) never but possibly by action.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I then read a part of The Laocoon, showing what a work of art was in his view, and what his way of viewing it.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Then I gave them an account of the natural growth of art from Der Sammler und die Seinigen and read from the table of the different sorts of artists and connoisseurs”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Second eveg. Read extracts from the introduction to Propylaea, Letter from Goethe written at Rome”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Third eveg, I read his sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Fourth eveg. Read, a little piece giving reasons why a painter should take lessons of a sculptor. One on the influence of Xty on Art. Morceau on Homer. Hackert on landscape painting.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAttested
“Ist reading from works of Goethe.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I then read a part of The Laocoon, showing what a work of art was in his view”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Third eveg, I read his sketch for a treatise on Dilettantism and Dilettanti.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I read the whole of the remarks on Helen, and gave them an acct of the way in which Goethe has taken up this thought in 2d Part of Faust.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goetheremarks on engravings of Christ and the Apostles by Marc Antonio after RaphaelAttested
“Read remarks on the engravings of Christ and the twelve Apostles by Marc Antonio after Raphael chiefly for sake of what is said about drapery.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“THE WEDDING OF THE LADY THERESA." FROM LOCKHART'S SPANISH BALLADS. "'Twas when the fifth Alphonso in Leon held his sway,...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“It is now, I think, about ten years (1654) since I perceived my vision to grow weak and dull... I will, since it is His pleasure, rather rejoice than repine at being blind.”
Papers on Literature and Art · "about ten years (1654) since I perceived"
“make him at home forever by such passages as we have read this beautiful bright September morning, in the... Apology for Smectymnuus.”
Papers on Literature and Art · "this beautiful bright September morning"
“who can think of Milton without the feeling which he himself expresses? "He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The next step would be to the authors on agriculture — Cato, Varro and Columella — for the matter is most easy... for this was one of Hercules' praises.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The interim may, both with profit and deUght, be taken up in recreating and composing their travailed spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies of music heard or learned...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“It is often a subject of sorrowful reflection to me, that those with whom I have been either fortuitously or legally associated by contiguity of place...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The last letter in the volume ends thus: "What you term policy, and which I wish that you had rather called patriotic piety, has, if I may so say, almost left ipe, sound, without a country.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“I have reserved for the last the life of Lady Russell... I bought the life and letters of Lady Russell, in the year 1775... Journal and Correspondence of Miss Adams, vol. i. p. 246.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · "I bought the life and letters of Lady Russell, in the year 1775"
“REPLY OF MR. ADAMS. Mr. Adams was so deeply affected by the address of Miss Foster... 'This is the first instance in which a lady has thus addressed me personally...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Daedalus we must quote. Wail for Daedalus all that is fairest.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Also the following, whose measure seems borrowed from Goethe. THE WOODED MOUNTAINS. Woodland mountains in your leafy walks.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Some part of his poem on Shakspeare is no unfit prelude to a few remarks on his own late work. With meaning won from him for ever glows.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Por Jorge Manrique sobre la muerte de su padre. 1 Recuerde el alma dormida / A vive el seso y despierte...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have reread with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
“We may, with satisfaction, add to these notes the words to which Haydn has adapted his magnificent music in "The Creation." 'In native worth and honor clad, with beauty, courage, strength adorned...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Reading in Jouffroy the Chapters on mysticism and Pantheism excited greatly my desire to be a thinker.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I am swallowing by gasps that cauldrony beverage of selfish passion and morbid taste, the letters of M'lle D'Espinasse.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Vous avez deviné a merveille, ce matin: je voulois votre reponse et point mon livre... Mon ami, je vous aime... L'Espinasse.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“A friend, who was often with her at this time, wrote to me (Kerner): When I, with my finger, touch her on the forehead between the eyebrows, she says each time something...”
Summer on the Lakes
- JuvenalAttested
“at other times, read all of Homer, Juvenal, Ovid, Anacreon and other books”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“Eschenmayer writes thus of her in his "Mysteries." "Her natural state was a mild, friendly earnestness...”
Summer on the Lakes
“translation from Korner trans from Schiller ie Thekla's Geister Stimme”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · It was just before we went to Andover that they were written
- LivyAttested
“Livy was interesting, but Tacitus seemed most truly a work of genius, and moved me like a poem.”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
- Louis-Claude de Saint-MartinDemonstrated
“The ministry of man implies, that he must be filled from the divine fountains which are being engendered through all eternity..." [footnoted '* St. Martin.']”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · "written some thirty years ago"
“Apparition of the goddess Isis to her votary, from Apuleius. "Scarcely had I closed my eyes, when behold (I saw in a dream) a divine form emerging from the middle of the sea...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“Lessing, Schiller, Richter, Tieck, Novalis, and, above all, Goethe”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“I should use the Garden of Poesy, and my other translations...I have sometimes thought of translating his Little Red Riding Hood, for children.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Extract from a letter of Beethoven to Bettina Brentano, Toplitz, 1812. 'Kings and princes can indeed make professors...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“When I read Beethoven's life, I said, 'I will never repine.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Beethoven's three love letters to Julia. (from a bathing place in Hungary) 6th July morning. My angel, my all, my (self)...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Mrs Child's Oasis- Her descriptions of S. American scenery very pretty”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
“Miss Jewsbury's letters. She writes a fine style though not that concise and marked one I like.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
“To-day, on reading over some of the sonnets of Michel Angelo, I felt them more than usual.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
- Miguel de CervantesPossiblePosthumous testimony
“Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Moliere were the friends of her childhood”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · were the friends of her childhood
“Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Moliere were the friends of her childhood”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · were the friends of her childhood
“There is a little poem in the Schnellpost, by Mority Hartmann, called the "Three," ... We translate it into prose”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Since my return, I have read his journey to, and letters from, Illinois.”
Summer on the Lakes · Since my return, I have read
“Lessing, Schiller, Richter, Tieck, Novalis, and, above all, Goethe”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“his one volume as I re-read it chapter by chapter”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
- NovalisDemonstrated
“N's opinion of Wilhelm Meister appears to me very unworthy of him... "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship is, in a certain sense thoroughly prosaic and modern...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“To my loving Brother, Colonel Valentine Walton: These. July, 1644. DEAR SIR: It's our duty to sympathize in all mercies...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · July, 1644
- OvidMetamorphosesDemonstrated
“Siquis tamen, Hercule, siquis Forte Deo doliturus erit, data prsemia nollet, Sed meruise dari sciet, invitus que probabit, Assensere Dei.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- OvidMetamorphosesDemonstrated
“as in that noble passage of Ovid, already quoted, where Jupiter... thus triumphs / Nic nisi materna Vulcanum parte potentem...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
- OvidAttested
“at other times, read all of Homer, Juvenal, Ovid, Anacreon and other books”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“When still in childish years, the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" fell in our way... read aloud the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," torn by chance from the leaf of a foreign magazine.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · When still in childish years, the "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" fell in our way
“The poems we read then are what every one still reads, the "Julian and Maddalo," with its profound revelations of the inward life”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Alastor," the soul sweeping like a breeze through nature; and some of the minor poems.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyQueen Mab; Hymn to Intellectual Beauty; Julian and Maddalo; Alastor; Prometheus UnboundAttested
“When still in childish years, the 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' fell in our way... The poems we read then are what every one still reads, the 'Julian and Maddalo'...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · 'When still in childish years'; later 'Two or three years passed... Christmas season'
“Hear Shelley. Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“A frail form, A phantom among men, companionless, As the last cloud of an expiring storm.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“In apostrophizing Venice, Shelley says. Perish! let there only be Floating o'er thy hearthless sea.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“And now today, 23d April reading Shelley's Defence of Poetry, do I not see how he longed to write!”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 23d April
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyDemonstrated
“The next is from Shelley and was not, I feel pretty sure, in your volume... When passion's trance is overpast, If tenderness and truth could last...”
Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller
“I add one by the author of "Festus," of a woman of the muse, the sybil kind, which seems painted from living experience. ... DESCRIPTION OF ANGELA, FROM "FESTUS.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“We may be permitted to copy, in this connection, the fine plea of Massinger's Roman Actor. Paris. If desire of honor was the base.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“From Philostratus descriptions of ancient pictures now lost. "The principal requisite to a fine composition was well known to the ancients...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- Pierre-Jean de BerangerAttested
“As we read the poem addressed to her not long since, by Beranger, we can scarcely refrain from tears...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century · "addressed to her not long since"
- PlatoAttested
“including almost all of Plato and many of the Greek dramas”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“As I was steeped in the divine tenth book of the Republic, came ----'s letter...”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Golden verses of Pythagoras, rather a pretty version thereof. "Let not soft slumbers close thine Eyes,”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- PythagorasGolden Verses (traditional English translation of Pythagoras's nightly self-examination questions)Demonstrated
“What hast thou done that's worth the doing? / And what pursued that's worth pursuing? / What sought thou knewest thou shouldst shun? / What done thou shouldst have left undone?”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Poetry was all written before time was; and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“A poet writes thus of the cities: — Cities of proud hotels, Houses of rich and great, A stack of smoking chimneys, A roof of frozen slate!”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Have I a lover / Who is noble and free / I would he were nobler / Than to love me.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
- RaphaelChrist and the Twelve Apostles (engravings by Marc Antonio)Attested
“Read remarks on the engravings of Christ and the twelve Apostles by Marc Antonio after Raphael chiefly for sake of what is said about drapery.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Next came a set of Dramatic Lyrics, from which we select — That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Here ends my first series of Bells and Pomegranates,' and I take the opportunity of explaining, in reply to inquiries, that I only meant by that title to indicate an endeavour...”
Papers on Literature and Art
- Robert BrowningDemonstrated
“Last, having thus revealed all I could love, ... Eternal, Infinite Love ! Browning.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Robert BrowningDemonstrated
“There are blind ways provided, the foredone Heart-weary player in this pageant world Drops out by, letting the main masque defile By the conspicuous portal ... Browning.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Sir James has seized the effect produced upon her works by the difference between her ideal and real character. This is one great secret of her eloquence...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“I have just read Priestley's Life of himself. It is an honest, plain, and somewhat dry account of a well-spent life...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The letters of this extraordinary man are all full of the highest flights of virtuous sentiment, amidst the grossest obscenities and the constant violation of the most sacred duties...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The Rajpoots are the representatives of Hinduism, unmitigated by foreign mixture, exerted with their original energy, and displayed in the strongest light...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“In what other journal shall we find an entry like the following... "has, I think, a distaste for me, which I believe to be natural to the family...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Among other things, I have twice read through the life of Sir J. Mackintosh; and it has suggested so much to me”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“Mr. Griswold thus closes his "Biographical Introduction:" "On Sunday, the eighth day of November, 1674... John Milton died. He was the greatest of all human beings...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“no writer could excel him in depicting a single mood of mind, as Dejection, for instance. A grief without a pang, void, dark, and drear.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“afterwards I found among the writings of Coleridge what may serve as a sufficient answer. A SOLILOQUY. Unchanged within to see all changed without.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“In Christabel, the vivid, the silence, equally glided up in the mind. Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“A noble and accomplished man, of a later day, has said, "To credit ordinary and visible objects is not faith, but persuasion...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“Sir Toby Matthew's Portrait of Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle. She is of too high a mind and dignity, not only to seek, but almost to wish the friendship of any creature.”
Papers on Literature and Art
- TacitusAttested
“Livy was interesting, but Tacitus seemed most truly a work of genius, and moved me like a poem. It is admirable, not only in its condensed expression but in the spirit behind it”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“The admired stanzas addressed to John Kemble. A majesty possessed His transport's most impetuous tone.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“I was staying at Hallowell, Maine, and could find no books that I liked, except Hood's poems.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · It was a beautiful time when I first read these poems... I have never again seen the Kennebec
“Thucydides couched in expressive style, but in its tissue of wars more like the annals of hornets than of men.”
Recollections of Richard F. Fuller, Chapters Four-Six
“Read Ugo Foscolo's Sepolcri, and Pindemonti's answer, but could not relish either”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
- Unidentified friend of Fuller'sUNKNOWN (untitled Fourth of July stanzas)Demonstrated
“Loud peal of bells and beat of drums... America is rocked within Thy cradle, Liberty, By Africa's poor, palsied hand — Strange inconsistency!”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · "written by a friend some time since, on the fourth of July"
- UNKNOWNThe Bandit's BrideAttested
“The heroine of one of these, 'the Bandit's Bride,' I immediately saw in Mariana.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · 'in my early ill health, had been indulged in reading novels'
- UNKNOWNworks on Greek ArtAttested
“This week has been one of real study and I have gone almost through the works on Greek Art that I have been obliged to keep untouched so many months.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · This week has been one of real study
- UNKNOWNremarks on Julian the apostateAttested
“[Falher's?] remarks on Julian the apostate. New views to me. Shall examine the book again”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- UNKNOWNbook on EgyptAttested
“2d May. More than a fortnight since I wrote last _yet have I read several books One on Egypt filled my head completely”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 2d May
- UNKNOWNA Paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, with an Introduction on the Nature of PrayerAttested
“I have been reading a sweet little book, a prayer-book, composed by deaf and dumb boys...It is called "A paraphrase on the Lord's Prayer, with an introduction on the nature of prayer.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- UNKNOWNA los ojos de mi queridaDemonstrated
“A los ojos de mi querida / Aunque con semblante ayrado / Me mirais, ojos serenos... To the eyes of my beloved, Bright eyes! though scorn and cold disdain...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- UNKNOWNbooks about the IndiansAttested
“My leisure hours while here I spent in reading some books about the Indians.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
- UNKNOWNUNKNOWN (two review articles)Attested
“In two articles of reviews, one foreign and one domestic, which have come under our eye within the last fortnight...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · "within the last fortnight"
- UNKNOWNUNKNOWN (old rhyme)Demonstrated
“What hast thou done that's worth the doing...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays) · "old rhyme"
- UNKNOWNUNKNOWN (notice of musical performances by the insane at Rouen)Attested
“While reading a notice of a successful attempt to have musical performances carried through in concert by the insane at Rouen, we were forcibly reminded...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
“The Hunchback of Notre Dame by V. Hugo. This brilliant work has impressed my imagination strongly.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
“My fourth and last passion, fortunately for me, showed itself by symptoms entirely different from the three first...”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
- VoltaireDemonstrated
“Toutes ces vastes pays et d'Azur et de Lumiere / Tires du sein du vide, et formes sans matiere / Arrondis sans compas, et tournons sans pivot / Ont a peine coûté la dépense d'un mot / Voltaire.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“I am disgusted as a whole with this book of Landor The Shakspeare and Spencer, which I have been Reading this morning”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Take, as a specimen, the opening description in Marmion. THE CASTLE. Day set on Norham's castled steep.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Irving's books I also read, some for the first, some for the second time, with increased interest... with the exception of the Tour to the Prairies, they have a stereotype, second-hand air.”
Summer on the Lakes
“Margaret translated, one evening every week, German authors into English; for the gratification of Dr. Channing; their chief reading being in De Wette and Herder.”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
“I have finished Burdon: I think him an excellent man and a fair thinker...”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
“The debasing effect of interest on the human mind is such that we generally despise those who are superior to its temptations. Burdon”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 5th Decr
“Sweep over with their shadows, and beneath / The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye; / Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase / The sunny ridges,”
Summer on the Lakes
“1st. From the poems of W. E. Channing, a poem called "Reverence," equally remarkable for the deep wisdom of its thought and the beauty of its utterance...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“we have read some excellent remarks by Mr. W. G. Simms on the writings of Cooper... No IX. Wiley and Putnam's Library of American books.—Views and Reviews by W. G. Simms.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“By that great vow / Which did incorporate and make us one... Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“From Hamlet I turned to Timon and Lear. The outraged heart of Timon takes refuge at once in action, in curses, and bitter deeds.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“O Regan, Goneril, Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave you all. that way madness lies, let me shun that.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“His translation of Othello which I glanced at is good for a French man.”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
“Shakespeare, Cervantes, and Moliere were the friends of her childhood”
Mem-3 Reminiscences of Edna Cheney · were the friends of her childhood
“The narrative portion of these pages," says Thom, "is a record of scenes and circumstances interwoven with my experience...”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The noble lines of Wordsworth, quoted by Mr. Griswold on his title-page... "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour. Return to us again, And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“By one pervading spirit Of tones and numbers all things are controlled... Wordsworth. Stanzas on the power of sound.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Hear Wordsworth. Up with me, up with me, into the clouds, etc. Lift me, guide me, till I find The spot which seems so to thy mind.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“I have often thought, in relation to him, of Wordsworth's description of A youth to whom was given So much of Earth, so much of Heaven.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“The Evening Voluntaries are very beautiful in manner. Not in the lucid intervals of life That come but as a curse to party strife.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“Soon after I had begun to read some lines of our horoscope, I found this poem in Wordsworth. A COMPLAINT. There is a change, and I am poor.”
Papers on Literature and Art
“It is from the romance in which Xenophon, the chivalrous Greek, presents his ideal of what human nature should be... 'The chariot of Abradatus...”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
“I must quote two more short passages from Xenophon, for he is a writer who pleases me well. Cyrus receiving the Armenians whom he had conquered.”
Woman in the Nineteenth Century