WorkJohn Foster

An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance; to which is added, A Discourse on the Communication of Christianity to the People of Hindostan — OR (more likely here) Essays in a Series of Letters, incl. “On Decision of Character”

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Documented 1834

Journals

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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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-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1834—

Journal 1833–1834

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“I see Foster in his Essay on decision of character, mentions its developement in Carl von Moor in terms which evince the strong feeling of reality horror and exaltation which this tragedy must produce on all who have deep hearts however dissimilar the texture of their minds.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).