WorkCharles King Newcomb

“Dolon" / The Two Dolons”

"Dolon" / The Two Dolons (manuscript, ca. 1842)

Charles King Newcomb (1820–1894) · manuscript, ca. 1842

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Documented 1842

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1832

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1844

1846

1850

1842—

Letter to Charles K. Newcomb

p77–78

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“On a third reading I am more than ever sensible that you must learn the art of choosing among your thoughts, and prune as well as water your vine… its redundant and involved style displeases, and hides, not drapes the thought.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.