WorkSamuel Ferguson

“The Forging of the Anchor”

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Documented 1836

Notebooks

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

Totals count documented engagements, once at the earliest witness. How we count →

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 →

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1836—

Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837

p116–p119

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“The forging of the Anchor - by S. Ferguson. / Come see the Dolphin's Anchor forged; tis at a white heat now; / The bellows ceased, the flames decreased [...]”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook: Bouquet, 1836–1837." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (43); Box 6 (43).