The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1839-41Cornell University Press, 1983 - 278 pages This second volume publishes all of Margaret Fuller's letters written from 1839 to 1841--the years in which she first began to achieve fame as a writer and an editor. Addressed to such eminent figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William H. Channing, Elizabeth Peabody, and Frederic H. hedge as well as to Fuller's family and intimate friends, these letters record the years of her involvement in the Transcendentalist Club--a group of liberal clergymen and writers who gathered to discuss theology, literature, and philosophy. In 1839 the Club decided to found a magazine, The Dial; Fuller became the editor, and at last she had a forum for her innovative views of literature and of literary criticism. These are also the years of her famous "conversations" for women--weekly discussions of mythology which were attended by twenty-five of the most prominent women in the area. The letters chronicle the most emotionally turbulent period in her life. In the course of little more than a year she was rejected by the man she loved, Samuel G. Ward, who then married her close friend Anna Barker; she was rebuffed by Emerson as well; and she underwent a profound religious experience that she felt changed her life. |
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... mind . I was fain to know whether you were tranquil in mind or only outwardly , and it pained me to have all real intercourse between us so suddenly checked . Now write again or not , as you feel disposed I shall feel tranquil about you ...
... mind and character that I can look on you as an equal friend . I also love you , and , probably , no other person you know could be so much to you as I , notwithstanding " all my shortcomings- Can you be contented , in consideration of ...
... mind . When I am dissatisfied or feel repelled by any trait of yours I feel also that I can wait . I see that your ... mind . I hope you will always write to me when such a letter as that of Sunday rises in your mind , even when , as ...