WorkJonathan Swift

A Tale of a Tub

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Documented 1826

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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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Reading Notebook 1825–1827

pp. 130–131

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“Then I went through that necessary and noble course of study (viz reading prefaces … nothing is so very tender as a modern piece of wit … wit has its walks and porticos, out of which it may not stray the breadth of a hair upon point of being lost … Swift.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notebook 1825–1827." Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Attributed 'Swift.' on p. 130 and again on p. 131.