WorkJohann Peter Eckermann

Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens [Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life]

Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens [Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life], 2 vols. (Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1837)

Johann Peter Eckermann (1792–1854) · Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1837

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Documented 1835–1839

Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

Letters • Journals

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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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1837Gesprache mit GoetheDemonstrated
“Unless he himself proposed my making an arrangement to translate it for some other publishers than his, I can do nothing.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Boston. 11th April 1837.
Translated engagement type qualifies automatically for the Demonstrated tier.
1839Gespräche mit Goethe (Conversations with Goethe)Demonstrated
“All the time I am well enough I spend on my translation.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jany 23d 1839
Engagement_type is Translated, which automatically qualifies for the Demonstrated tier.
1839Gespräche mit Goethe (Conversations with Goethe)Demonstrated
“As I find that two pages of my handwriting (in which the greater part of the book lies) make one of your print, I think the volume will contain about fourhundred pages.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 21st Feby [1839]
Engagement_type is Translated, which automatically qualifies for the Demonstrated tier.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

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1835—

Letter to Frederic H. Hedge

p222

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“or by saying Goethe remarked aye even he "We all talk constantly a great deal too much[;] talking is the very worst way of expressing thought, best mature it into action by a silent process as the tree puts forth its fruit”

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

Fuller attributes a saying about silence and expression to Goethe, introduced with "Goethe remarked aye even he,"

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.

1839—

Letter to Hiram Fuller

p68

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“I do not know that this book will be very interesting to you for its own sake, but, as being of the same date with my labours in Greene St, I thought it seemed to belong to your library there”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

She presents the gift as thematically suited to his library, implying she has now completed this translation work—as Hudspeth identified identifying the newly published Boston edition of 1839.

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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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Journal 1837–1843

p. 27

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“1795. Uses that the Horen / was to Goethe. (To Eckermann / he lamented over it as / Having been of disadvantage / to him!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.

Preserved in the Memoirs (1852)

1836—

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli

p14

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“In 1839, she published her translation of Eckermann, a book which makes the basis of the translation of Eckermann since published in London, by Mr. Oxenford.”

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