WorkRalph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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Documented 1844
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 →
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'.
“just as you have been showing me your great results, sculptured out into such clear beauty... Surely! these essays should be a sufficient protest against such illusions.”
Hudspeth identified Fuller had been reading the manuscript of Emerson's forthcoming Essays: Second Series (published October 1844) while staying with the Hawthornes at the Old Manse in Concord.
“Your book I have read quite through some of it in the neighborhood of hawks and such like, but will not mar the effect by a few inadequate words. It will be a companion through my life.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“Alone myself I have begun the day, by reading Waldo's book. (Out-doors I cannot.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“Have you read Mr E's new volume?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
“AT the distance of three years this volume follows the first series of Essays, which have already made to themselves a circle of readers [...] (quoting from 'The Poet'): "Poetry was all written before time was; and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down...”
The same sentence also names Essays: First Series. Counted as one engagement.
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.