WorkFitz-Greene Halleck

“Red Jacket: A Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras," in Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”

"Red Jacket: A Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras," in Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems (New York: Sleight & George, 1827; revised ed

Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790–1867)

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Documented 1839

Letters

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    “Red Jacket, a Chief of the Indian Tribes, the Tuscaroras. __ "Thou were monarch born! Tradition's pages...”

    Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers) · 1835 Nov-

    Manuscript notebook entry copying out a substantial verse passage from Halleck's poem.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“This other book contains Halleck's Red Jacket which I think I promised to show you. Keep both till I come.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.