WorkRalph Waldo Emerson
Essays: First Series (1841), Inferred
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · 1841
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Documented 1841–1847
Letters • Books
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 →
“His book, also, is in press.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Hudspeth identified 'His book' as Emerson's Essays: First Series, sent to publisher on 1 January 1841 and published by James Munroe on 20 March 1841.
“A Martineau letter containing her raptures about your book.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Hudspeth fn 6 quotes Harriet Martineau's letter to Fuller (9 August, MH), in which Martineau calls Emerson's Essays 'a gem set in the brow of your nation.' Fuller transmits the letter to Emerson.
“AT the distance of three years this volume follows the first series of Essays, which have already made to themselves a circle of readers, attentive, thoughtful, more and more intelligent”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
“Will you have the kindness to look among my books for a copy of the First Part of Emerson's essays which I gave to Laura Hunt and which was returned to me at the time of her death and send it by some safe way to Mrs Manning.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
“Mickiewicz, the Polish poet, first introduced the Essays to acquaintance in Paris.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.