WorkKarl Wagner (ed.)

Briefe an Johann Heinrich Merck [Letters to Johann Heinrich Merck]

Karl Wagner (ed.) (1741–1791) · Darmstadt, 1835

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Documented 1837

Letters • Journals • Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1837—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p269
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“I take the liberty to send Merck and the two first vols of Zelter.”

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

Inferred Fuller is sending Emerson her copy of the Briefe an Johann Heinrich Merck von Goethe, Herder, Wieland und andern bedeutenden Zeitgenossen (Darmstadt, 1835), identified by Hudspeth.

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Journal 1837–1843

pp. 7–8
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“Goethe's letter to Merck, p 97 / M's corres. / "The Prince is a grand, firm, / true nature, with a prodigious / imagination and an upright, / manly existence.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Journal 1837–1843." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5.

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Notes toward The Life of Goethe

p4–p5
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“p4: 'Wieland in his letters to Merck / speaks always of the Geheim Rath Goethe as the source of all power... our Wieland says, "He will not be able to go away for Karl (the G.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notes toward The Life of Goethe." Houghton Library, Harvard University.