Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkOrville Dewey

The Old World and the New

Orville Dewey (1794–1882)

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Documented 1836

Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p62–p63
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“From Mr Dewey's Old world and New, "It Peter's is a structure of stupendous magnificence - not solemnity nor sublimity exactly for one is not aware of the size." [...] There is little in these vols worth copying.”

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