WorkThomas Carlyle

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 4 vols. (Boston: James Munroe, 1838–39)

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) · Boston: James Munroe, 1838–39

InferredHudspeth identified James Munroe published the volumes in 1838–39. Fuller does not name a specific Carlyle work; she copies excerpts labeled 'From Carlyle.' that include passages on Rousseau, Diderot/Seneca, and aphorisms consistent with Carlyle's critical essays of the early 1830s.

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Documented 1836–1837

Letters • Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p79–p84

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“From Carlyle.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).

Inferred Fuller does not name a specific Carlyle work; she copies excerpts labeled 'From Carlyle.' that include passages on Rousseau, Diderot/Seneca, and aphorisms consistent with Carlyle's critical essays of the early 1830s.

Cataloged as Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (the collected form of his periodical essays).

1837—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p276

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“I wish to ask, that, if Carlyle's Miscellanies are to be published by subscription, as, I believe, the Sartor was, you will put down my name for two copies.”

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

Hudspeth identified James Munroe published the volumes in 1838–39.