WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

The Friend: A Series of Essays

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843)

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Documented 1836–1837

Letters • Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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.

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  • 1837The FriendDemonstrated

    “With the Friend I should never have done therefore must get it for mine own.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837

    Demonstrated: sustained engagement with the book in hand — returning Emerson's volume, she says she "should never have done" with it and must get her own copy. Fuller to Ralph Waldo Emerson; provenance per Harvey's extraction: letter to Emerson, printed in Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884).

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—

Journal December 1836

p28–32
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“From Coleridge's Friend / 'Many considerations should tend to moderate an anxiety for the guidance of a more experienced or superior mind…”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal December 1836." Houghton Library, Harvard University; MS Am 1086; Box 3.

1837—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p276
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“With the Friend I should never have done therefore must get it for mine own.”

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