[>] “met as”: Margaret and Her Friends, p. 13.
[>] “perpetual wall”: FLVI, p. 322.
[>] “bounteous giver” and passages from this Conversation: Margaret and Her Friends, pp. 41–46.
[>] “there were too many”: Ibid., p. 117.
[>] “few present”: Ibid., p. 156.
[>] “they will get free”: FLII, p. 205.
[>] “never enjoyed” . . . “in no way”: Margaret and Her Friends, p. 13.
[>] “I love her”: Ibid., p. 156.
[>] “blunder” and subsequent Conversation on Psyche: Ibid., pp. 113–15.
[>] “pilgrimage of [the] soul”: Ibid., p. 97.
[>] “the Productive Energy”: Ibid., p. 38.
[>] “what is dear”: Ibid., p. 41.
[>] “bound in the belt”: JMNXI, p. 256.
[>] “more alone”: FLIII, p. 47.
[>] their “constellation”: FLIII, p. 154.
[>] “the young people”: ELII, p. 384.
[>] “game of wits”: ELII, p. 385.
[>] “We have a great”: RWE, “Friendship,” Essays and Lectures (New York: Library of America, 1983), p. 341.
[>] “our friendship”: ELII, p. 385.
[>] “my need”: FLII, p. 159.
[>] “most unfriendly”: FLII, p. 171.
[>] “masculine obligations”: FLIII, p. 213.
[>] “this light”: FLII, p. 159.
[>] budding “Genii”: FLII, p. 124.
[>] Concord “sage”: FLII, p. 170.
[>] “the much that calls”: MF, poem dated January 1, 1841, in Jeffrey Steele, ed., The Essential Margaret Fuller (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992), p. 18.
[>] “gipsy” freedom: JMNVIII, p. 289.
[>] “belong[ed] to the”: FLII, p. 205.
[>] “good letters”: FLII, p. 53.
[>] “guests so queenly”: ELII, p. 129.
[>] “surprised me into”: ELII, p. 143.
[>] “the fair girl” . . . “inspires the wish”: Quoted in Kathleen Lawrence, “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul’ Ignites: Emerson and His Soul-Mate Caroline Sturgis as Seen in Her Houghton Manuscripts,” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 3, fall 2005, p. 44. I am grateful to Kathleen Lawrence for conversations about the Fuller-Sturgis-Emerson triangle, which have advanced my understanding of this crucial period in the lives of all three, and for the evidence of a lifelong “connexion” between RWE and CS that she introduces in this important essay.
[>] “engaged my cold”: JMNVII, p. 15.
[>] “her blasphemies”: Quoted in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul,’” p. 47.
[>] “lofty” willfulness: Quoted in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul,’” p. 48.
[>] “Greatly to Be”: CS, “Life,” Dial, vol. 1, no. 2, October 1840, p. 195.
[>] “the right poetry”: JMNVII, p. 372.
[>] “Be not afraid”: FLII, p. 103.
[>] “good vagabond”: JMNVIII, p. 289.
[>] “full of indirections”: JMNVIII, p. 289.
[>] “a great genius”: JMNVIII, p. 352.
[>] “I think”: FLII, p. 150.
[>] taken to calling “Raphael”: FLII, p. 49.
[>] “gone so much” . . . “a joyful song”: FLII, p. 171.
[>] “How did you”: FLII, p. 90.
[>] “You would not”: FLII, pp. 80–81.
[>] “bitterness of checked”: FLII, p. 81.
[>] “incapable of feeling”: FLII, p. 90.
[>] “We knew”: FLII, p. 81.
[>] would “spoil” him: FLII, p. 91.
[>] “You have given”: FLII, p. 91.
[>] “star of stars”: FLII, p. 47.
[>] “I understand”: FLII, p. 95.
[>] “though I might”: FLII, pp. 95–96.
[>] “strip of paper”: JMNVII, p. 259.
[>] “A new person”: RWE, “Friendship,” p. 343.
[>] “Cold as I am”: JMNVII, pp. 273–75.
[>] “young man”: FLII, p. 81.
[>] “The wind”: JMNVII, p. 260.
[>] “chill wind”: FLII, p. 95.
[>] “vexation” of business: Quoted in Eleanor Tilton, “The True Romance of Anna Hazard Barker and Samuel Gray Ward,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1987 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press), p. 59. See also Carl Strauch, “Hatred’s Swift Repulsions: Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Others,” Studies in Romanticism, vol. 7, no. 2, winter 1968, pp. 65–103.
[>] “bird has flown” . . . “ague”: Samuel Gray Ward, quoted in “The True Romance,” p. 67.
[>] “emaciated,” by Margaret’s: FLII, p. 150.
[>] “implied another”: ELVII, p. 404.
[>] “eldest and divinest”: FLII, p. 93.
[>] “soaring like”: FLII, p. 150.
[>] “willing” to be: MF, quoted by RWE in ELII, p. 325.
[>] “I count & weigh”: ELII, p. 325.
[>] “a good horse”: ELII, p. 323.
[>] “the debt”: ELVII, p. 402.
[>] “More fleet”: RWE, “The Visit,” Dial, vol. 4, no. 4, April 1844, p. 528.
[>] “I thought she”: ELVII, p. 404.
[>] “angel has appeared”: ELII, p. 339.
[>] “The duration”: RWE, “The Visit,” p. 528.
[>] “with a certain”: ELVII, p. 404.
[>] “If you will”: FLII, p. 69.
[>] “Persons were”: JMNXI, p. 494. See also Jeffrey Steele, “Transcendental Friendship: Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau,” in Joel Porte and Saundra Morris, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 121–39; and Susan Belasco, “‘The Animating Influences of Discord’: Margaret Fuller in 1844,” Legacy, vol. 20, no. 1/2, 2003, pp. 76–93.
[>] “The higher”: RWE, “Friendship,” p. 352.
[>] “What a spendthrift”: JMNX, p. 94.
[>] “absolute all-confiding”: JMNXI, p. 495.
[>] “Life is” . . . “On comes”: JMNVII, p. 48.
[>] “We are armed”: JMNVII, p. 106.
[>] “stricken soul”: JMNVII, p. 48.
[>] “a man wakes”: Quoted in Robert D. Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 280.
[>] “taxed” Waldo: ELII, p. 325.
[>] “It is even so”: JMNVII, p. 301.
[>] “friendship of”: JMNVII, p. 315.
[>] “see the ludicrousness” . . . “privation”: JMNVII, p. 301.
[>] “in my heart”: JMNVII, p. 315.
[>] “might destroy”: FLII, p. 104.
[>] “Wise man”: Dial, untitled lines of prose, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 136.
[>] “admire the winding up”: FLII, p. 146.
[>] “of being often”: ELII, p. 327.
[>] “dared” to entertain: ELII, p. 351.
[>] “I have lived”: ELII, p. 327.
[>] “tell you how”: FLII, p. 157.
[>] her promise: FLII, p. 154.
[>] “for the joy”: ELII, pp. 327–28.
[>] “I need to”: FLII, p. 160.
[>] “I ought never”: ELII, p. 352.
[>] “live as”: ELII, pp. 352–53.
[>] “I write” . . . “I have dreamed” . . . “these extraordinary”: ELII, p. 332.
[>] “new covenant”: ELII, p. 339.
[>] Waldo wrote “gladly”: JMNVII, p. 512.
[>] “I am yours”: ELII, p. 336.
[>] “reconcile our”: ELII, p. 349.
[>] “Sometimes you appeal”: ELII, p. 352.
[>] “If Love”: RWE, “The Visit,” p. 528.
[>] “a life more intense”: FLII, p. 66.
[>] “O these tedious”: FLII, p. 170.
[>] “You are intellect”: FLIII, p. 209.
[>] “I have felt”: FLII, p. 159.
[>] “deep living force”: FLIII, p. 120.
[>] “Could I lead”: FLII, p. 159.
[>] “highest
office”: FLII, p. 159.
[>] “faithful through”: FLII, p. 214.
[>] “I know not”: FLII, p. 160.
[>] “Did not you”: FLII, p. 160.
[>] “I value you”: FLII, p. 213.
[>] “no mortal”: FLII, p. 111.
[>] “my own priest”: OMI, p. 99.
[>] “new alliance”: FLII, p. 183.
[>] she was her “Priestess”: FLII, p. 187.
[>] “the deepest privacy”: FLII, p. 173.
[>] “I grow”: The Essential Margaret Fuller, p. 12.
[>] an ideal “community”: FLII, pp. 179–80.
[>] “tangled wood-walks”: FLII, p. 64.
[>] “Waldo is”: FLII, p. 170.
[>] “I wish”: FLVI, p. 330.
[>] “to sail downward”: FLII, p. 163.
[>] “a sort of”: OMI, p. 308.
[>] “all things”: FLII, p. 160.
[>] “To you”: ELVII, p. 402.
[>] “Friendship,” Waldo would: RWE, “Friendship,” p. 343.
[>] “fine war”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,“Miss Peabody’s Reminiscences of Margaret’s Married Life,” Boston Evening Transcript, June 10, 1885. I am grateful to Mary De Jong for bringing this article to my attention.
[>] “purest ideal”: FLII, pp. 191–92.
[>] “fledglings of Community”: FLII, p. 209.
[>] “transcendental heifer”: Thomas L. Woodson, Neal Smith, and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds., The Letters, 1813–1843: Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, vol. 15 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984), p. 527.
[>] “with common”: OMI, p. 99.
[>] “I serve you not”: “Étienne de la Boéce,” The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9, Poems (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), p. 158.
[>] “Now all seems”: FLII, p. 106.
[>] “Is it not better”: JMNVII, p. 63.
[>] “dissonance, of transition”: FLVI, p. 332.
[>] “a total failure” . . . “I will not”: FLII, p. 194.
[>] “one thing”: FLII, p. 180.
[>] difference between “Living”: FLII, p. 184.
[>] “a firmer hold”: FLII, p. 180.
[>] “The Phalanx”: FLII, p. 163.
[>] “who have dared”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, “A Glimpse of Christ’s Idea of Society,” Dial, vol. 2, no. 2, October 1841, p. 222.
[>] “limitations of human nature”: FLII, p. 109.
[>] “At the name”: ELII, p. 364.
[>] “University”: ELII, pp. 323–24.
[>] “indifference” might “seem incredible”: FLII, p. 197.
[>] “The Abolition cause”: FLII, pp. 197–98.
[>] “women are Slaves”: JMNVII, p. 48.
[>] “constellation, not a phalanx”: FLIII, p. 154.
[>] “Once I was”: FLII, p. 202.
[>] “living so long”: FLII, p. 69.
[>] nine-thousand-word essay: MF, “Goethe,” Dial, vol. 2, no. 1, July 1841, pp. 1–41. For the epigraph, Fuller quotes Goethe in the original German. I am grateful to Yu-jin Chang for the English translation I have provided.
[>] “do something frivolous”: FLII, p. 107.
[>] “Love and Insight”: CS, Dial, vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 305.
[>] “field[s] of outsight”: Quoted in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul,’” pp. 56–57.
[>] “I have walked”: FLII, pp. 422–23. Kathleen Lawrence expands on RWE’s positive association of sea imagery with Cary Sturgis in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul’”; he had also described Margaret Fuller’s heart, sympathetically, as “a sea that hates an ebb.”
[>] “modern men”: Margaret and Her Friends, p. 101.
[>] Transcendentalist “Coterie”: FLVI, p. 332.
[>] “If ever”: FLIII, p. 66.
[>] “a good neighborhood”: JMNVIII, pp. 172–73.
[>] “living in”: JMNVIII, p. 93.
[>] “an earnest” . . . “a great deal”: FLII, p. 210.
[>] “that seems feasible”: FLII, p. 208.
[>] “fled out of”: ELIII, p. 7.
[>] “Nature . . . has crushed”: ELIII, p. 9.
[>] “how bad”: ELIII, p. 9.
[>] “our fair boy”: ELIII, p. 9.
[>] “every cherished”: ELIII, p. 10.
[>] “Margaret Fuller”: JMNVIII, p. 165.
[>] “Shall I”: ELIII, p. 8.
[>] “Must every”: ELIII, p. 9.
[>] Lidian was “saintly”: FLII, p. 160; “holiness”: FLI, p. 328.
[>] “a bible”: FLII, p. 160.
[>] “so anti-Christian”: Joel Myerson, “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal: At Concord with the Emersons,” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 21, no. 3, July 1973, p. 338.
[>] “Marriage should”: JMNVIII, p. 95.
[>] “all the marriages”: Conversation reported by RWE to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and recorded in her journal, entry of November 25, 1836. In “Biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody” [manuscript draft] by Mary Van Wyck Church, p. 280, MHS.
[>] “every one”: Nancy Craig Simmons, “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations: The 1839–1840 Series,” Studies in the American Renaissance, 1994 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 215.
[>] “ruined health”: FLII, p. 81.
[>] “lack of”: FLIII, p. 164.
[>] “mourned that I”: OMI, p. 99.
[>] “perfect” friends: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 218.
[>] “We cannot”: JMNVIII, p. 95.
[>] “Never confess”: Lidian Jackson Emerson, “Transcendental Bible,” in Joel Myerson, ed., Transcendentalism: A Reader (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 381–82.
[>] “Let there”: ELIII, p. 53.
[>] “we shall”: ELIII, p. 81.
[>] “our poor Dial”: ELIII, pp. 36–37.
[>] “rotation in martyrdom”: ELIII, p. 35.
[>] “desk & inkhorn”: ELIII, p. 75.
[>] “red room” . . . “long word”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 338.
[>] “questioning season”: MF to WHC, FLIII, p. 91.
[>] “we go but” . . . “more at home” . . . “we do not”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 323; “are moderate now”: p. 326.
[>] “burst into tears” . . . “a painful”: Ibid., p. 331.
[>] “looked at”: Ibid.
[>] “lurking hope”: Ibid., p. 332.
[>] “more his companion”: Ibid., p. 331.
[>] Lidian’s “magnanimity”: Ibid., p. 332.
[>] “wonderful sleepless”: ELIII, p. 62.
[>] “when my soul”: FLII, p. 160.
[>] “You would have”: JMNVII, p. 400.
[>] “the holy man”: FLII, p. 147.
[>] “I see”: JMNVII, p. 400.
[>] “my long”: ELIII, p. 62.
[>] “interrogating, interrogating”: JMNVIII, p. 196.
[>] “talking, as we almost”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 330.
[>] “Man,” he told her: Ibid.
[>] “claim a devotion”: Ibid., pp. 330–31.
[>] “Great Sage”: Martha L. Berg and Alice de V. Perry, eds., “‘The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June Through October 1844,” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. 102, 1990, p. 105.
[>] “it has not”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” pp. 329, 327.
[>] “capital” letter: Ibid., p. 333.
[>] “some ill”: Ibid., p. 334.
[>] “nowise convinced”: Ibid., p. 335.
[>] “my poor”: Ibid.
[>] “left Ellen”: Ibid.
[>] “He reads”: Ibid., p. 336.
[>] “took it”: Ibid., pp. 335–36.
[>] “no tragedy”: Ibid., p. 336.
[>] “be impossible”: Robert D. Habich, “Margaret Fuller’s Journal for October 1842,” Harvard Library
Bulletin, vol. 33, no. 3, 1985, p. 285.
[>] “sublimo-slipshod” . . . “to the very end”: Quoted in Joel Myerson, The New England Transcendentalists and The Dial (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1980), pp. 111, 109.
[>] “a succession”: “Margaret Fuller’s Journal for October 1842,” p. 286.
[>] “the true”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 336.
[>] “because he dont”: Ibid., p. 332.
[>] “radiant genius”: JMNXVI, p. 22.
[>] “woman, self-centred”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit,” p. 47.
[>] “lumber waggon”: FLIII, p. 137.
[>] “To Rhea”: RWE, Dial, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 104.
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[>] “fire winged”: FLIII, p. 131.
[>] “lost its interest” . . . “the newest”: FLIII, p. 147.
[>] “the birth”: MF, journal passage dated July 1844, quoted in JMNXI, p. 461.
[>] “dripping” rain: FLIII, p. 126.
[>] “known it all”: Quoted in CFII, p. 125.
[>] “with eyes full”: JMNIX, p. 19.
[>] “woo the mighty” . . . “the Americanisms”: SOL, pp. 18, 6.
[>] “continual stress” . . . “so much”: SOL, p. 3; FLIII, p. 131.
[>] “no escape”: SOL, p. 3.
[>] “hordes” of immigrants: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 125.
[>] “life-blood rushes”: SOL, p. 19.
[>] “for a plaything”: SOL, pp. 6–7.
[>] “the conspiring”: SOL, p. 9.
[>] “aboriginal population”: RWE to Martin Van Buren, April 23, 1838, published in the Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, May 14, 1838, and the Yeoman’s Gazette, Concord, May 19, 1838.
[>] “real old”: FLIII, p. 131.
[>] “glut the steamboat”: MF journal, quoted in VM, p. 173.
[>] “rudeness of conquest”: SOL, p. 18.
[>] “make amends”: MF journal, quoted in CFII, p. 125.
[>] “for business”: MF journal, quoted in VM, p. 173.
[>] “material realities” . . . “do not ape”: FLIII, p. 129.
[>] “talking not”: SOL, p. 12.
[>] “I say”: FLIII, p. 132.
[>] “oak shaded” . . . “room enough”: MF journal, quoted in VM, p. 174.
[>] “country [where]”: SOL, p. 25.
[>] “one of the band”: MF letter, quoted in JMNXI, p. 485.
[>] “pleasant or natural”: JMNXI, p. 464.
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