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Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil

Dashes at Life with a Free Pencil (New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845)

Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) · New York: Burgess, Stringer & Co., 1845

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Documented 1845

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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

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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New-York Daily Tribune

“Story Books for the Hot Weather” · June 20, 1845 · p. 1

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“Dashes at Life,' by N. P. Willis. The life of Mr. Willis is too European for him to have a general or permanent fame in America.”

Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.