WorkHenry Francis Cary
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“When vigor failed the towering fantasy, But yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion by the love impelled That moves the sun in heaven, and all the stars.”
Life Without and Life Within (essays)
Full four-line verse passage from Cary's Dante translation quoted verbatim.
No datable encounters with Cary, Henry Francis have been catalogued yet.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“An edition of Cary's translation, reprinted in Boston many years ago, was rapidly sold”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.