WorkWilliam Francis Lynch

Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea

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Documented 1850

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1850Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead SeaAttested
“These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea, a book interesting for its subject”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Florence 15th Feb 1850 (letter dateline); 'these few evenings past'
Explicit dated statement: 'These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea'.

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 Emelyn Story

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“These few evenings past I have lightly skimmed over Lynch's Excursion to the Dead Sea, a book interesting for its subject and as showing the resources for action and the barrenness of thought of the American (so called practical) man in our days.”

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