WorkFriedrich Schiller

“An die Freunde”

"An die Freunde" [To My Friends] (1802) Inferred

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Documented 1834–1837

Letters • Journals

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Confirmed reading

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.

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1837An die Freunde (To my friends)Demonstrated
“That from Schiller "To my friends" is very bad.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Groton 31st May, 1837.
Translated engagement type automatically qualifies for the Demonstrated tier.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

1810

1820

1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1834—

Journal 1833–1834

p81

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“To my Friends — Schiller / Beloved Friends!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1833–1834." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (4); Box 5 (83).

Inferred Poem attributed to Schiller in the manuscript header ‘To my Friends — Schiller’; identified as ‘An die Freunde’ (also titled ‘Die Freunde’). Fuller explicitly attributes the poem to Schiller and copies out two stanzas in English translation (pp. 81–85, duplicated in pages 83–85). Earth has known brighter days.’ The title is inferred because the manuscript header says only ‘To my Friends — Schiller’, not the German title.

Poem attributed to Schiller in the manuscript header ‘To my Friends — Schiller’; identified as ‘An die Freunde’ (also titled ‘Die Freunde’). Fuller explicitly attributes the poem to Schiller and copies out two stanzas in English translation (pp. 81–85, duplicated in pages 83–85).

1837—

Letter to John S. Dwight

p281

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“That from Schiller "To my friends" is very bad.”

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