WorkWilliam Sotheby

“Oberon: a Poem, from the German of Wieland”

William Sotheby (1757–1833)

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Documented 1820

Letters

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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 Timothy Fuller

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“The other day I saw Sotherbys Oberon in the bookcase I never read any thing that delighted me so much as that book My father When I get the card that has Best upon it at school may I read it again?”

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