WorkRalph Waldo Emerson

“Demonology (manuscript, pre-publication)”

InferredFuller nicknames Emerson's manuscript lecture "The Ghosts," an allusion to its demonology subject matter; as Hudspeth identified as possibly Emerson's "Demonology," the final lecture of his 1839 "Human Life" course.

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“Thank you for the accompanying papers. The Ghosts spoke very lifelike to me who understand the language of Hades.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Jamaica Plains June 3d 1839
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I. Childhood

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IV. Transcendentalist1record

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VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Thank you for the accompanying papers. The Ghosts spoke very lifelike to me who understand the language of Hades.”

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

Inferred Fuller nicknames Emerson's manuscript lecture "The Ghosts," an allusion to its demonology subject matter; as Hudspeth identified as possibly Emerson's "Demonology," the final lecture of his 1839 "Human Life" course.