WorkRalph Waldo Emerson
"The Conservative" in The Dial, vol. 3, no. 2 (October 1842)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) · October 1842
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Letters
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
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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.
“Your essay I have read with delight, but it is true the passage about fate is weak”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 16th Oct [1842]
Explicit 'Your essay I have read with delight'.
“Your essay I have read with delight, but it is true the passage about fate is weak; Seek a better. Why cannot the fate behind fate be brought out somehow?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.