WorkSir Walter Scott

“The Douglas Tragedy," in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border”

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

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Documented 1831–1844

Letters

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence1record
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1832
1836
1844
1846
1850
1831—

Letter to James F. Clarke

p180
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“I'll gang, I'll gang, Lord William, she said For ye've left me nae ither guide.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. VI. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

1844—

Letter to William H. Channing

p224
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“In the Douglas tragedy the beauty is more than the sorrow!”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller invokes "the Douglas tragedy" and comments that "the beauty is more than the sorrow,"