WorkWalter Savage Landor

“Washington and Franklin" in Imaginary Conversations (Works, vol. 7)”

"Washington and Franklin" in Imaginary Conversations (Works, vol. 7) (1824–29) , Inferred

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) · 1824–29

InferredFuller paraphrases a specific sentiment she attributes to Landor: 'those who love religion most speak of her least.' Hudspeth identified the source as Landor's 'Washington and Franklin' in his Imaginary Conversations (The Works of Walter Savage Landor, London, 1927–36, 7:28–29).

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Documented 1840

Letters

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Confirmed reading

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.

undated(book, likely Imaginary Conversations - Shakespeare & Spenser)Attested
“I am disgusted as a whole with this book of Landor The Shakspeare and Spencer, which I have been Reading this morning”
Manuscripts (Houghton Library, Margaret Fuller Family Papers)
'which I have been Reading this morning' is an explicit, time-specific first-person reading statement.

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 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“what would Mr Landor say who thinks those who love religion most speak of her least”

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

Inferred Fuller paraphrases a specific sentiment she attributes to Landor: 'those who love religion most speak of her least.' Hudspeth identified the source as Landor's 'Washington and Franklin' in his Imaginary Conversations (The Works of Walter Savage Landor, London, 1927–36, 7:28–29).