WorkSamuel Taylor Coleridge

The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1798–1843) · London: William Pickering, 1836–39

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Documented 1836–1837

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Letters • Journals • Notebooks

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Confirmed reading

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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  • 1836Literary RemainsAttested

    “Coleridge's Literary Remains, and drank a great deal from Wordsworth.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 1836

    MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re624 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6923-6924; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Same explicit list sentence: 'I have read... Coleridge's Literary Remains.'

  • 1837Literary RemainsAttested

    “As to reading I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, both very good!”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston 6th April 1837

    Explicit 'I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe.'

  • 1837Literary RemainsAttested

    “Some of your books I restore. The Literary remains I have ransacked pretty thoroughly.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth May 1837.

    Explicit 'The Literary remains I have ransacked pretty thoroughly.'

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist5records
V. New York
VI. Europe
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1836—

Letter to Unknown

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“Coleridge's Literary Remains”

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

1836—

Journal December 1836

p32–47
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“From the 2d vol. of Coleridge's Literary remains _ I copy these passages here not being able to find any other blank book and not being willing to lose them.”

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

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p146–p176
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“From Coleridge's Lit y remains.”

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

1837—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p265
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“As to reading I have read only two books, Coleridge's Literary remains and Eckermann's Conversations with Goethe, both very good!”

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

1837—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p276
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“Some of your books I restore. The Literary remains I have ransacked pretty thoroughly”

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

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1836—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p219
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“Coleridge's Literary Remains”

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.