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A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent

A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1834–75; Vol. 1, 1834; Vol. 2, 1837; Vol. 3, 1839)

George Bancroft (1800–1891) · Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1834–75; Vol. 1, 1834; Vol. 2, 1837; Vol. 3, 1839

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Documented 1837

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 Caroline Sturgis

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“I had not anticipated any further obstacles, but had made up my mind to read to you Bancrofts History and Carlyle, and take care of you in all peace and quietness”

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