WorkCharles Chauncy Emerson

“Notes from the Journal of a Scholar. No. II", in The Dial, Vol. IV, No. 1”

"Notes from the Journal of a Scholar. No. II", in The Dial, Vol. IV, No. 1 (July 1843)

Charles Chauncy Emerson (1808–1836) · July 1843

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    “I have been reading over the "Notes" which please me more and more.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Saturday eveg [25 April] 1840

    Explicit first-person 'I have been reading over the Notes' tied to a specific date.

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Notes from the journal of a Scholar" I had seen before, it is good to have it in my own possession.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Fuller refers to "Notes from the journal of a Scholar," naming the title explicitly; Hudspeth identified this as Charles Chauncy Emerson's "Notes from the Journal of a Scholar.