WorkCharles Wesley

“Jesus, My Strength, My Hope”

"Jesus, My Strength, My Hope" (hymn, 1742)

Charles Wesley (1707–1788) · hymn, 1742

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Documented 1844

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  • 1844Jesus, My Strength, My HopeDemonstrated

    “My God, my strength, my hope."... "Bold to take up, firm to sustain, The consecrated cross”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Sunday 4th August [1844]

    Multiple lines of a Wesley hymn quoted verbatim, a substantial sustained passage.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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1844
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Letter to Caroline Sturgis

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“I read a hymn which she chooses.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.