WorkSir James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832)
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Documented 1833–1839
Additional passages preserved in the Memoirs (1852)
Letters • Manuscripts
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
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.
“Among other things, I have twice read through the life of Sir J. Mackintosh; and it has suggested so much to me”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli
"I have twice read through the life of Sir J. Mackintosh" is an explicit reading statement.
“The copiousness of Sir J. Mackintosh's reading journals is, I think, intimately connected with his literary indolence.”
Fuller, Margaret. "General Reading Notes." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“this saying of Sir J. Mackintosh's about somebody. 'He has cultivated the delicacy of his sentiments at the expense of the health of his virtues.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Fuller attributes this epigram to "Sir J. She applies the saying to an unnamed person (likely W.
Fuller attributes this epigram to "Sir J.
Undated
Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.
“Such a mind as Sir J. M's is, of course, admirably adapted to conversation. his mind, wanting the main spring of invention, needed the action of other minds.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Notes on Books, Children, and Faith." Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“I have twice read through the life of Sir J. Mackintosh; and it has suggested so much to me”
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke, eds. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 2 vols. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1852.