WorkMorris Birkbeck

Letters from Illinois

Morris Birkbeck (1764–1825)

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Documented 1843

Books • Journals

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Confirmed reading

Passages where the evidence goes beyond allusion to indicate that Fuller had this work in hand — an explicit statement of reading, sustained excerpting or translation, or a specific reading episode recorded by those who knew her.

  • undatedNotes on a Journey in America / Letters from IllinoisAttested

    “Since my return, I have read his journey to, and letters from, Illinois.”

    Summer on the Lakes · Since my return, I have read

    Explicit first-person 'Since my return, I have read his journey to, and letters from, Illinois' statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Since my return, I have read his journey to, and letters from, Illinois.”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Undated

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

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Journal 1837–1843

p. 51
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“Birkbeck's Illinois. / His plan seems to have been suffici- / ciently well-laid & carried out / with skill, too.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.