WorkWilliam Henry Channing

“Moral Evil," The Western Messenger, Vol. 6, pp. 333-38”

William Henry Channing (1810–1884) · March 1839

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    “to day looking over the books I found a number of the W. Messenger in which you write of Evil and cast out those same suggestions as in your letter to me. I read it with profound interest.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 25th Eveg [February 1841]

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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“to day looking over the books I found a number of the W. Messenger in which you write of Evil and cast out those same suggestions as in your letter to me. I read it with profound interest.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

Hudspeth identified the reference: 'Moral Evil,' Western Messenger 6 (March 1839):333-38, by William Henry Channing.