1844—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The Desatir I want to keep awhile for Sunday reading.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
WorkDesatir (Persian sacred text)
The Desatir, or, Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets
The Desatir, or, Sacred Writings of the Ancient Persian Prophets (Bombay, 1818)
Desatir (Persian sacred text) (Zoroastrian / Persian mystical tradition) · Bombay, 1818
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When Fuller engaged with this work
1845—
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
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“The Persian sacred books, the Desatir, describe the great and holy prince Ky Khosrou, as being "an angel, and the son of an angel," one to whom the Supreme says, "Thou art not absent from before me for one twinkling of an eye.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Footnote cites 'The Persian sacred books, the Desatir' — the Desatir is a Persian religious text.
Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
1818—
Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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“Margaret was reading, in these weeks, the Four Books of Confucius, the Desatir, some of Taylor's translations from the Greek, a work on Scandinavian Mythology, Moehler's Symbolism, Fourier's Noveau Monde Industriel, and Landor's Pentameron”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.
This Zoroastrian text, first printed in Bombay in 1818, reflects Fuller's broad spiritual and philosophical interests, placed alongside her reading of Confucius, Greek philosophy, and Scandinavian mythology.