1837—
Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
WorkJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nachgelassene Werke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
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Documented 1837
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- 1837Nachgelassene WerkePossible
“I have now of yours two vols of Milton, one of Jonson, one of Plutarch's Morals, two of Degerando, with the 7th and 8th of Goethe's nachgelassene Werke”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · 30 May 1837
Possible: volumes 7–8 of Goethe's Nachgelassene Werke kept for the summer; possession, not a reading statement. Fuller to Ralph Waldo Emerson; provenance per Harvey's extraction: letter to Emerson, printed in Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1884).