WorkWilliam Thom

A Chieftain Unknown to the Queen

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Documented 1845–1847

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe2records

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1845—

Thom’s Poems.

“Thom’s Poems.”

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“Auld Scotland cried “Welcome your Queen!” Ilk glen echoed “Welcome your Queen!” While turret and tower to mountain and moor, Cried “Wauken and welcome out Queen!”

Fuller, Margaret. "Thom’s Poems." New-York Daily Tribune, 22 August 1845. · 22 August 1845

1846—

Poets of the People

“Poets of the People”

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“A Chieftain Unknown to the Queen," expresses many thoughts that arose in our own mind as we used to read the bulletins of the Royal Progress through Scotland so carefully transferred to the columns of American journals.”

Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p186

Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p186; page given is to the 1869 reprint.

1847—

Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII.

“Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII.”

mentioned

“One of the Poets of the People, also, I saw—the sweetest singer of them all. —Thom. “A Chieftain unknown to the Queen” is again exacting a cruel tribute from him.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VIII." New-York Daily Tribune, 2 February 1847. · 2 February 1847