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“Bessie Bell and Mary Gray”

"Bessie Bell and Mary Gray" ("The Twa Lasses"), traditional Scottish ballad

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Documented 1838

Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Arthur B. Fuller

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“they love one another like Bessie Bell and Mary Gray in the ballad.”

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

Hudspeth identified it as "The Twa Lasses," a seventeenth-century ballad collected in Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe's A Ballad Book (Edinburgh, 1824).