WorkJoseph Forsyth
Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters, During an Excursion in Italy, in the Years 1802 and 1803 (London: John Murray, 1813; 2nd ed. 1816)
Joseph Forsyth (1763–1815) · London: John Murray, 1813; 2nd ed. 1816
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Documented 1844–1845
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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.
“Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have reread with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re448 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-03 l.6115-6116; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. "I have reread with increased pleasure" is an explicit reading statement about a specific book.
“Forsyth's and Bell's Italy would be useful to you in the way of suggestion.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
Hudspeth identified the work; Forsyth (1763–1815), imprisoned in France during the Napoleonic Wars, produced what was considered a model of discriminating observation about Italian art and antiquities.
“One is Forsyth’s Italy. This is a collection of fragments. If we remember right, the author was one of the unhappy Detenus”
Fuller, Margaret. "Books of Travel." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 December 1845. · 18 December 1845
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“Meanwhile I have got out all our tours in Italy. Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have reread with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Hudspeth identified this as Joseph Forsyth's Remarks on Antiquities, Arts, and Letters during an Excursion in Italy (1813), written by Forsyth while imprisoned by the French following his Italian travels of 1802–03.
“Forsyth, a book I always loved much, I have re-read with increased pleasure, by this new light.”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.