WorkMorris Birkbeck

“Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of Illinois”

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Documented 1843

Books • Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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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.”

The same sentence also names Letters from Illinois. Counted as one engagement.

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

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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

pp. 49–51

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“Berkbeck's Notes of a journey to / Illinois / The just principles, candor, and / mild discriminating tone of this / book are charming.”

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