WorkTheodore Sedgwick Fay

Sketch of the Life of John Howard Payne

Sketch of the Life of John Howard Payne (1833) Inferred

Theodore Sedgwick Fay (1807–1898) · 1833

InferredHudspeth identified this as Theodore Sedgwick Fay's *Sketch of the Life of John Howard Payne* (Boston, 1833), and Fuller's response is emotionally engaged: she mourns John Howard Payne's story of 'such a brilliant dawn and such a gray afterday of baffled efforts.' Catalogue note: a standalone essay or article rather than a book; retained under the author's record but excluded from the book titles list.

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1833Sketch of the Life of John Howard PayneAttested
“This aftn I have been reading a memoir of J. H. Payne Poor fellow!”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 3oth August 1833
"I have been reading a memoir of J. H. Payne" is an explicit reading statement.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“This aftn I have been reading a memoir of J. H.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Hudspeth identified this as Theodore Sedgwick Fay's Sketch of the Life of John Howard Payne (Boston, 1833), and Fuller's response is emotionally engaged: she mourns John Howard Payne's story of 'such a brilliant dawn and such a gray afterday of baffled efforts.' Catalogue note: a standalone essay or article rather than a book; retained under the author's record but excluded from the book titles list.