WorkRalph Waldo Emerson
Nature (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836
AnalyzedReadMentioned
Documented 1836–1844
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.
“I went into the woods and read a little book called "Nature" through for the first time.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 12th April 1840, 'Yesterday was the first day of spring'
"I went into the woods and read a little book called 'Nature' through for the first time" is an explicit, dated reading statement.
“I thank you much for "Nature." I hear much conversation about it that amuses me. I have it already.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
Hudspeth identified while Fuller did not read the entire work until 1840, Emerson had apparently read it aloud to her.
“I went into the woods and read a little book called "Nature" through for the first time.”
“I sent "Nature," (and lamented I had not your book proper for the occasion) John Dwight's volume and "the Dial.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
“Copies of Mr. Emerson's first published little volume called "Nature," have there been sold by thousands in a short time, while one edition has needed seven years to get circulated here.”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.