WorkPlato
Apology (c. 399-390 BCE)
Plato (c. 428 BCE–c. 348 BCE) · c. 399-390 BCE
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Documented 1833–1848
Letters
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.
“The "Apology" I deem only remarkable for the noble tone of sentiment, and beautiful calmness.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 3 June 1833
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re567 (L-2 Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth, letter_1012.txt; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Continues the same first-person dialogue-reading report on the Platonic dialogues ('The Apology I deem only remarkable...').
“June 3, 1833.—I part with Plato with regret...Eutyphron is excellent...'Crito' I have only read once...The 'Apology' I deem only remarkable...I was much affected by Phaedo”
Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli · June 3, 1833
Dated journal entry with explicit reading statements: 'I have only read once' and detailed reactions to each Plato dialogue.
“The "Apology" I deem only remarkable for the noble tone of sentiment, and beautiful calmness.”
Also reprinted in The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. VI: 1850. Counted once, at its first appearance.
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Vol. I: 1817-1838. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“I wrote you a long letter, but have destroyed it, the Socratic demon advising me that it was not best to send it at this time.”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. V. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Inferred Fuller uses 'the Socratic demon' as a cultivated classical allusion to the daimonion of Socrates — the inner divine sign that warned him against certain actions. This concept is most fully described in Plato's Apology (31c-d: 'I have a divine sign from God which Meletus has made fun of in his affidavit.