WorkHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Excelsior" in Ballads and Other Poems”

"Excelsior" in Ballads and Other Poems (1842) Inferred

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) · 1842

InferredFuller writes "whose motto Excelsior," using this Latin word as a rallying cry for a progressive, service-oriented fraternity.

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Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe1record

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Alexander Ireland

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“To the new fraternity I think we belong whose glory is service, whose motto Excelsior.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Inferred Fuller writes "whose motto Excelsior," using this Latin word as a rallying cry for a progressive, service-oriented fraternity.