WorkJonathan Carver

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 (1778), Inferred

Jonathan Carver (1710–1780) · 1778

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Read for the 1843 western tour

Named among the books Fuller consulted for her western journey, and discussed in Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.

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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)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Carver, in his travels among the Winnebagoes, describes two queens, one nominally so, like Queen Victoria; the other invested with a genuine royalty, springing from her own conduct.”

Inferred Fuller names Carver explicitly and provides a paraphrase plus direct quotation from his account of a Winnebago queen.

“Another book of interest, from its fidelity and candid spirit, though written without vivacity, and by a person neither of large mind nor prepared for various inquiry, is Carver's Travels, "for three years throughout the interior parts of America, for more than five thousand miles.”
“I have no less grieved to omit Carver's account of the devotion of a Winnebago prince at the Falls of St.”

Inferred Jonathan Carver (1710–1780), American explorer, whose Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America (London: printed for the author, 1778) is the only work by Carver containing an account of a Winnebago prince at the Falls of St. Fuller names the author and work context explicitly. She praises Carver's 'simplicity and intelligence' in describing the Winnebago and recommends the book alongside Henry's.

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

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Journal 1837–1843

p. 73
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“Carver good old fashioned / gentleman, dull & true / Date of his journey. / Grand town of the Sau and / Foxes.”

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

Inferred Fuller reads Jonathan Carver's Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America (London: the Author, 1778) as preparation for Summer on the Lakes. She characterizes Carver as 'a good old fashioned gentleman, dull & true,' notes specific episodes (the piety of an Indian prince at the Falls of St.