WorkRalph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Mentioned
Documented 1846
Essays
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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 →
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.
“Alone myself I have begun the day, by reading Waldo's book. But the Essays did not chime with in-door life either this morning.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [3? November 18441
Explicit 'I have begun the day, by reading Waldo's book'.
“Your book I have read quite through some of it in the neighborhood of hawks and such like. It will be a companion through my life.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 17th N ovr 1844
Explicit 'Your book I have read quite through'.
“one of them an earnest student of Emerson’s Essays.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . II." New-York Daily Tribune, 29 September 1846. · 29 September 1846