WorkGeorge Palmer Putnam

American Facts: Notes and Statistics Relative to the Government, Resources, Engagements, Manufactures, Commerce, Religion, Education, Literature, Fine Arts, Manners and Customs of the United States of America

George Palmer Putnam (1814–1872) · London: Wiley and Putnam, 1845

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Letters • Books

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York2records
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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New-York Daily Tribune

“American Facts” · May 19, 1845 · p. 1
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“Such is the title of a volume just issued from the press; a grand title, which suggests the epic poet or the philosopher. The purpose of the work, however, is modest.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.

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Letter to James Nathan

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“here at night comes a thick book named "American Facts" and forbidding me to look at that best fact the Moon.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. IV. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

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Letter to James Nathan

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“Two such dissipated days, and here at night comes a thick book, named "American Facts" and forbidding me to look at that best fact, the Moon. Help me, my friend!”

Fuller, Margaret. Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845-1846. With an introduction by Julia Ward Howe. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903.

Inferred Fuller does not name the author or compiler; the identification is based solely on the unique title. Fuller's role at the New-York Tribune, where she frequently received books for review, further supports this identification.