Margaret Fuller’s Reading Worlds

WorkClaude Adrien Helvétius

De l'Homme, de ses Facultés intellectuelles et de son Éducation [On Man, His Intellectual Faculties and His Education]

Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771) · 1772

InferredLespinasse’s letter (transcribed by Fuller) mentions reading Helvétius’s new book in two volumes of 600 pages each; almost certainly De l’Homme (1772). Fuller transcribed Lespinasse’s letter describing reading ‘le livre si attendu de M. Helvétius’ in two volumes of 600 pages each.

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“J’ai lu le livre si attendu de M. Helvetius.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Extracts Only." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (88); Box 6 (88).

Inferred Lespinasse’s letter (transcribed by Fuller) mentions reading Helvétius’s new book in two volumes of 600 pages each; almost certainly De l’Homme (1772). Fuller transcribed Lespinasse’s letter describing reading ‘le livre si attendu de M. Helvétius’ in two volumes of 600 pages each.

Lespinasse’s letter (transcribed by Fuller) mentions reading Helvétius’s new book in two volumes of 600 pages each; almost certainly De l’Homme (1772). Fuller transcribed Lespinasse’s letter describing reading ‘le livre si attendu de M.