WorkGeorge Palmer Putnam

Phi Beta oration

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Documented 1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Translations from the German.

“Translations from the German.”

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“Such an attempt was made in the Phi Beta oration of Mr. Putnam, a work where well-intentioned mediocrity met with vast applause from those on the same level.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from the German." New-York Daily Tribune, 14 March 1845. · 14 March 1845