WorkFrancis Bacon

“Works”

Works (London, 1824) , Inferred

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) · London, 1824

InferredFuller names "a volume of Bacon" among books she has retained from Emerson's library, and Hudspeth identified the likely edition as Bacon's Works (London, 1824) in ten volumes, though no specific work within Bacon's corpus is identified.

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Documented 1839

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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 work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“I have retained of your books a volume of Bacon, one of Plutarch, one of Ben Jonson with Underwoods, &c — you must ask me for them, if wanted, for I keep books forever.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Inferred Fuller names "a volume of Bacon" among books she has retained from Emerson's library, and Hudspeth identified the likely edition as Bacon's “Works” (London, 1824) in ten volumes, though no specific work within Bacon's corpus is identified.