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“Major Jack Downing' letters”

'Major Jack Downing' letters (1830 ff.), Inferred

Seba Smith (1792–1868) · 1830 ff.

InferredFuller's 'Jonathan, our national hero' refers to 'Brother Jonathan', the standard early 19th-c. American national character type (the precursor of Uncle Sam), embodying brash, unmannerly Yankee self-confidence.

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Documented 1843

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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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1832

1836

1844

1846

1850

1843—

Summer on the Lakes, in 1843

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“Even such a familiarity, worthy of Jonathan, our national hero, in a prince's palace, or "stumping" as he boasts to have done, "up the Vatican stairs, into the Pope's presence, in my old boots," I felt here”

Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.

Inferred Fuller's 'Jonathan, our national hero' refers to 'Brother Jonathan', the standard early 19th-c. American national character type (the precursor of Uncle Sam), embodying brash, unmannerly Yankee self-confidence.