WorkRam Mohan Roy

The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness

The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness (1820; American ed. 1825)

Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) · 1820; American ed. 1825

InferredFuller is actively reading Rammohun Roy's *The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness* (identified by Hudspeth) and is intensely engaged with it, noting the book has exercised her mind more than anything in months.

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1828The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and HappinessAttested
“reading Rammohun Roy's book, and framing dialogues aloud on every argument beneath the sun.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge, 3 January 1828
Explicit first-person statement 'reading Rammohun Roy's book'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence1record

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Letter to Susan Prescott

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“I have passed a luxurious afternoon, having been in bed from dinner till tea, reading Rammohun Roy's book, and framing dialogues aloud on every argument beneath the sun.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller is actively reading Rammohun Roy's The Precepts of Jesus, the Guide to Peace and Happiness (identified by Hudspeth) and is intensely engaged with it, noting the book has exercised her mind more than anything in months.