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“Saadi" in The Dial, vol. 3, no. 2”

"Saadi" in The Dial, vol. 3, no. 2 (October 1842)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · October 1842

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    “Saadi I have read many times.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 16th Oct [1842]

    Explicit 'Saadi I have read many times'.

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I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
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“Saadi I have read many times. [...] 'Most welcome they who need him most.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.