WorkJohn Gibson Lockhart

Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk

Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk (1819) Inferred

InferredFuller compares Clarke's descriptions of paintings to 'Peter Lockhart's' vivid character portraits, referring to John Gibson Lockhart's *Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk*. Hudspeth identified the reference by connecting the character name 'Peter' with the author's surname 'Lockhart.'

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Letters

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1846

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1833—

Letter to James F. Clarke

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“I think your descriptions vie with Peter Lockhart's though I dont love paying such compliments.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Inferred Fuller compares Clarke's descriptions of paintings to 'Peter Lockhart's' vivid character portraits, referring to John Gibson Lockhart's Peter's Letters to His Kinsfolk. Hudspeth identified the reference by connecting the character name 'Peter' with the author's surname 'Lockhart.'

Hudspeth identified the reference by connecting the character name 'Peter' with the author's surname 'Lockhart.'