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The Culprit Fay

The Culprit Fay (written c.1816, published 1835)

Joseph Rodman Drake (1795–1820) · written c.1816, published 1835

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Documented 1825

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. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1825—

Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 14–35

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“Tis the middle watch of a summer's night, / The earth is dark but the heavens are bright, / Nought is seen in the vault on high / But the moon and the stars and the cloudless sky”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.