WorkCornelius Mathews
Cornelius Mathews (1817–1889)
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Documented 1846
Letters • Books
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.
“A worthy account of the vocation and duties of the journalist, is given by Cornelius Mathews... As shakes the canvass of a thousand ships”
Papers on Literature and Art
Substantial ~41-line verbatim quotation of a Mathews poem on the journalist's vocation.
“Will Mr Duyckinck have the kindness to see whether the extract from Mr Mathews's poem 'The Journalist,' is correctly printed?”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.
Hudspeth identified the poem appeared in Poems on Man, in His Various Aspects under the American Republic (1843).
“A series of poems, called "Man in the Republic," by Cornelius Mathews, deserves a higher need of sympathy than it has received. The thoughts and views are strong and noble”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846.