WorkJohn Sterling

“Thoughts and Images”

"Thoughts and Images" (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 44, August 1838, pp. 197–207)

John Sterling (1806–1844) · Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 44, August 1838, pp. 197–207

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Documented 1838

Letters

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I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist1record

V. New York

VI. Europe

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Letter to Charles K. Newcomb

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“You can keep these a week. Read Thoughts and Images by Archaeus, as well as the poem.”

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

Fuller explicitly names "Thoughts and Images by Archaeus" and instructs Newcomb to read it, as Hudspeth identified, Archaeus was the pen name of John Sterling and that the work appeared in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (August 1838). Hudspeth also notes that Emerson sent Fuller the August 1838 issue on 23 October 1838, which she is now lending to Newcomb after having read it herself.