WorkJohn Gibson Lockhart

Valerius: A Roman Story

Valerius: A Roman Story (Edinburgh: William Blackwood; London: T. Cadell, 1821; 3 vols.)

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Documented 1831–1837

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1831—

Letter to Unknown

p173

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“I found much amusement in leading him to sketch the scenes and persons which Lockhart portrays in such glowing colors, and which he, too, has seen with the eye of taste, but how different!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names Lockhart and draws out a conversation with Greenwood about the "scenes and persons which Lockhart portrays in such glowing colors." Hudspeth identified John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854), Scott's son-in-law, as author of four novels likely in mind: Valerius (1821), Adam Blair (1822), Reginald Dalton (1823), and Matthew Wald (1824).

1837—

Letter to Caroline Sturgis

p296

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“or, if my memory play me true, than Lockhart's "Valerias,”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.