WorkCharles Wilkes

United States Exploring Expedition

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Documented 1845

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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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Com. Wilkes’s Narrative.

“Com. Wilkes’s Narrative.”

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“But we are much disappointed to be carried no farther and introduced to no more novel topics or details of information by passing through so many pages.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Com. Wilkes’s Narrative." New-York Daily Tribune, 7 May 1845. · 7 May 1845