[>] “patience” . . . “more rapid”: Essays on American Life, pp. 273, 276.
[>] “free from prejudice”: “Review of Theodore Leger.”
[>] “no sleep”: FLIV, p. 59.
[>] reports from friends: FLIV, p. 61n.
[>] “held his right hand”: FLIV, p. 61n.
[>] “a power”: “Review of Theodore Leger.”
[>] “what I meet”: FLIV, p. 59.
[>] “stronger passions”: WNC, p. 136.
[>] “a truly happy”: FLIV, p. 65.
[>] “the new knowledge”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 14.
[>] meeting had taken place: James Nathan, letter dated 1873, in Julia Ward Howe, ed., Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845–1846 (New York: D. Appleton, 1903), p. 4.
[>] of her “beloved”: FLIV, p. 82; James Nathan’s travel letters in the Tribune: FLIV, pp. 146, 159.
[>] “nameless relation”: FLIV, p. 75.
[>] “some day”: FLIV, p. 47.
[>] “the utmost”: WNC, p. 55.
[>] “prized . . . both as a warning”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, pp. 57–58.
[>] “there are”: FLIV, p. 95.
[>] “boldness, simplicity”: FLIV, p. 74.
[>] “never know” . . . “wholly”: FLIV, p. 65.
[>] “wish to hear”: FLIV, p. 62.
[>] “show me how”: FLIV, p. 47.
[>] “restless sad”: FLIV, p. 100.
[>] “my mind”: FLIV, p. 52.
[>] “twenty four”: FLIV, p. 68.
[>] “my dear”: FLIV, p. 64.
[>] “these little”: FLIV, p. 65.
[>] “last Winter’s”: FLIV, pp. 66–67.
[>] “one feels”: FLIV, p. 62.
[>] “suffer an untimely”: FLIV, p. 66.
[>] “there is to be”: FLIV, p. 65.
[>] “a cold faintness”: FLIV, p. 69.
[>] “I love sadness”: 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. 70.
[>] “an injured woman”: FLIV, p. 68.
[>] “broken through”: FLIV, p. 67.
[>] “English maiden”: FLIV, p. 191.
[>] “deserted” a woman: Rebecca Spring, quoted in CFII, p. 223.
[>] “I have elected”: FLIV, p. 70.
[>] “Could the heart”: FLIV, pp. 68–70.
[>] “That I know”: FLIV, p. 67.
[>] “the path”: FLIV, pp. 69–70.
[>] “The golden time”: FLIV, p. 70.
[>] she draped: FLIV, p. 114.
[>] “I am with you”: FLIV, pp. 72–73.
[>] “approached” Margaret “so nearly”: FLIV, p. 75.
[>] “Yesterday was”: FLIV, p. 77.
[>] “the sweet”: FLIV, p. 73.
[>] “earth-stain” ever be: FLIV, p. 77.
[>] “It seemed the work”: FLIV, pp. 75–76.
[>] the man of “force”: FLIV, p. 100.
[>] “‘the dame’”: FLIV, p. 78.
[>] “so much”: FLIV, p. 75.
[>] “that if Margaret”: FLIV, p. 76.
[>] “crave” all the more: FLIV, p. 87.
[>] “noble enough”: FLIV, pp. 82–83.
[>] “come tomorrow”: FLIV, p. 102. Although the source of Margaret’s quotation from Novalis is not known, she may have been offering a loose translation of the closing lines of his poem “Astralis,” which include “Das Herz als Asche niederfaellt”—“The heart, as ashes, falls down.” I am grateful to Yu-jin Chang for suggesting this possible attribution.
[>] “Platonic affection”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 77.
[>] “Your views”: Ibid.
[>] “the class”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women,” Dial, vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 35.
[>] “read not”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 77.
[>] “childish rest”: FLIV, p. 87.
[>] “was not enough”: FLIV, p. 98.
[>] “called on for wisdom”: FLIV, p. 137.
[>] “and now am”: FLIV, p. 98.
[>] “the crimson ones”: FLIV, p. 98.
[>] “works which”: Margaret Fuller, Critic, p. 57.
[>] “get out”: FLIV, p. 87.
[>] “but a mortal”: FLIV, p. 95.
[>] “able to stand”: WNC, p. 161.
[>] “life seems”: FLIV, p. 97.
[>] “so much for me”: FLIV, p. 99.
[>] “mein liebste”: FLIV, p. 96.
[>] “since you have”: FLIV, p. 104.
[>] “carried . . . many”: FLIV, p. 91.
[>] “must know”: FLIV, p. 99.
[>] “you must always”: FLIV, p. 109.
[>] “take it gently”: FLIV, p. 97.
[>] “You have touched”: FLIV, p. 75.
[>] was no “mistake”: FLIV, p. 107.
[>] “your moon”: FLIV, p. 100.
[>] “To the Face Seen in the Moon”: Quoted in CFII, p. 172.
[>] “The Woman in me”: Quoted in CFII, p. 172.
[>] a “queenly” moon: FLIV, p. 102.
[>] “A human secret”: FLIV, p. 105.
[>] “have no confidant”: FLIV, p. 159.
[>] “we improve”: FLIV, p. 136.
[>] “men have the privilege”: FLIV, p. 117.
[>] “last letter”: FLIV, p. 111.
[>] “magnetic power”: MF, Art, Literature, and the Drama (New York: The Tribune Association, 1869), p. 83.
[>] “it is well”: FLIV, pp. 110–11.
[>] “I cannot do”: FLIV, p. 77.
[>] “fair girl”: FLIV, p. 147.
[>] “She must suffer”: FLIV, p. 139.
[>] “who combined”: FLIV, p. 100.
[>] “beautiful summer”: FLIV, p. 153.
[>] “prettiest dresses”: FLIV, p. 148.
[>] “the waters”: FLIV, p. 137.
[>] “concentrated on”: FLIV, p. 141.
[>] “indeed there are”: FLIV, p. 121.
[>] “I have never”: FLIV, p. 141.
[>] “no poem”: FLIV, p. 92.
[>] “is it not by living”: FLIV, p. 141.
[>] titled “Clairvoyance”: New-York Daily Tribune, July 23, 1845, C163 in CD-ROM accompanying Margaret Fuller, Critic.
[>] “the affair”: FLIV, p. 146.
[>] “poor maiden”: FLIV, p. 139.
[>] “Now is the crisis”: FLIV, p. 147.
[>] “tender and elevated”: FLIV, p. 134.
[>] “the precious”: FLIV, pp. 134–35.
[>] “a good miniature”: FLIV, p. 149.
[>] “I like them better”: FLIV, p. 121.
[>] “has rent from me”: Quoted in JMNXI, pp. 507–8.
[>] “our moods”: FLIV, p. 167.
[>] “seldom” . . . “because he”: Quoted in Joel Myerson, The New England Transcendentalists and The Dial (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 1980), pp. 208, 209.
[>] “very lonely”: FLIV, p. 167.
[>] “just about”: FLIV, p. 163.
17. LOST ON BEN LOMOND
[>] “would have given”: FLIV, pp. 192–93.
[>] “great mutual”: MF, “Thom’s Poems,” New-York Tribune, August 22, 1845, C175 in CD-ROM accompanying Judith Matson Bean and Joel Myerson, eds., Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the New-York Tribune, 1844–1846 (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
[>] “If I persevere”: FLIV, p. 193.
[>] “a desire for you”: FLIV, pp. 204–5.
[>] “retouching” several: FLIV, p. 146.
[>] “never be”: FLIV, p. 205.
[>] “I am going”: FLIV, p. 195.
[>] “full of distaste”: FLIV, p. 216n.
[>] “and then thanks”: Quoted in VM, p. 227.
[>] “brief and vivid”: FLIV, pp. 218–19.
[>]
“very glad to find”: FLIV, p. 166.
[>] “close calculator”: CFII, p. 271.
[>] “The attractive force”: FLIV, p. 213.
[>] “slower, solider”: Dispatches, p. 41.
[>] “packages of seed”: MF, Essays on American Life and Letters, Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), p. 380.
[>] “nine days of wonder”: Dispatches, p. 39.
[>] “florid, fair”: Dispatches, p. 53.
[>] “the real wants”: Dispatches, p. 57.
[>] “merely the retirement”: Dispatches, p. 53.
[>] “I care not”: Julia Ward Howe, ed., Love-Letters of Margaret Fuller, 1845–1846 (New York: D. Appleton, 1903), p. 187.
[>] “drenching” equinoctial: Dispatches, p. 69.
[>] “Life seems”: FLIV, p. 97.
[>] “alone, as usual” . . . “I have no real”: OMII, pp. 166, 167.
[>] nickname “Sibyl”: Bettine von Arnim, Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child, vol. 1 (London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1839), p. 91. Margaret had also written a breathlessly admiring letter to the sixty-five-year-old von Arnim in 1840, before she had given up her project of writing a biography of Goethe. It appears that she received no answering letter. FLVI, pp. 328–29.
[>] “Officer of Hussars”: Goethe’s Correspondence with a Child, vol. 1, p. 102.
[>] “drink in”: Dispatches, p. 74.
[>] “all fevered” and remainder of account: Dispatches, pp. 75–77.
[>] “if I had not tried”: FLIV, p. 228.
[>] “cessation of intercourse”: Quoted in CFII, p. 291.
[>] “my Yankee method”: Dispatches, p. 77.
[>] “life rushes”: MF, “Farewell,” New-York Daily Tribune, August 1, 1846; Essays on American Life, p. 379.
[>] “the feeble”: MF, review of Thomas L. McKenney, in Memoirs, Official and Personal, New-York Daily Tribune, July 8, 1846, C308 in CD-ROM accompanying Margaret Fuller, Critic.
[>] “heightening and deepening”: Essays on American Life, p. 380.
[>] “she had seen”: JMNXI, p. 498.
[>] “making some good”: FLIV, p. 188.
[>] “glad Margaret Fuller”: Quoted in CFII, p. 278.
[>] had just “eloped”: FLIV, p. 235.
[>] “especially women”: Dispatches, p. 79.
[>] “I found” . . . “persons of celebrity”: FLIV, pp. 239–40, 235.
[>] “preconceived strong”: FLIV, p. 228.
[>] “others of a radical”: FLIV, p. 235.
[>] “habits of conversation”: FLIV, p. 228.
[>] “a woman of tact”: Quoted in JMNXI, p. 471.
[>] “European society”: FLIV, p. 245.
[>] “chosen the profession”: FLIV, pp. 240–41.
[>] “the miserable”: FLIV, p. 194.
[>] “waited long enough”: 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. 109.
[>] “full of grace”: FLIV, pp. 248–49.
[>] “full of all nobleness”: Quoted in VM, p. 235.
[>] “Beyond any”: Quoted in VM, p. 240.
[>] “beauteous and pure”: FLIV, pp. 248–49.
18. “ROME HAS GROWN UP IN MY SOUL”
[>] “the city of pleasures”: FLIV, p. 252.
[>] “getting dressed”: FLIV, p. 241.
[>] “thick, flowered”: FLIV, p. 253.
[>] “in a little”: FLIV, p. 229.
[>] “the devotion”: FLIV, p. 241.
[>] “openings were made”: FLIV, p. 244.
[>] “only way”: FLIV, p. 234.
[>] “besetting danger”: MF, Essays on American Life and Letters, Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), pp. 369–70.
[>] “habit of feeding”: Dispatches, p. 128.
[>] verbal “sharp-shooters”: Dispatches, p. 122.
[>] “true kings”: Dispatches, p. 111.
[>] Fourier’s estimate: WNC, p. 160.
[>] “lives on the footing”: FLIV, p. 262n.
[>] “Madame Sand”: FLIV, p. 256.
[>] “La dame Americaine” and account of meeting with George Sand: OMII, pp. 194–98.
[>] “the man I had”: FLIV, p. 261.
[>] “the present”: Alexander Chodzko, quoted in CFII, p. 318.
[>] “deep-founded mental connection”: FLIV, pp. 261–62.
[>] “the very few”: FLV, p. 175.
[>] “the only one”: FLV, p. 176.
[>] “vow never”: Alexander Chodzko, quoted in CFII, p. 318.
[>] “He affected”: FLIV, p. 263.
[>] “an embodied”: Quoted in Dispatches, p. 6.
[>] “How much time”: FLIV, p. 261.
[>] “the attraction”: FLIV, p. 263; “frightful”: MF, “1849 Journal,” p. 2, bMS Am 1986 [4] FMW.
[>] “I speak and act”: FLIV, p. 259.
[>] “I do not know”: FLIV, p. 263.
[>] “prostrate multitude”: William Ellery Channing, Conversations in Rome: Between an Artist, a Catholic, and a Critic (Boston: William Crosby and H. P. Nichols, 1847), p. 6.
[>] “natal day”: Dispatches, pp. 136–37.
[>] “not great enough”: Rebecca Spring, quoted in VM, p. 254.
[>] “perpetual hurra”: Dispatches, p. 136.
[>] no sermon: Dispatches, p. 185.
[>] “elaborate, expressive”: George Stillman Hillard, Six Months in Italy (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), p. 145. See also John Paul Russo, “The Unbroken Charm: Margaret Fuller, G. S. Hillard, and the American Tradition of Travel Writing on Italy,” in Charles Capper and Cristina Giorcelli, eds., Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), pp. 124–55.
[>] “Rome is an all hacknied”: FLIV, p. 156.
[>] “an earnest”: FLVI, p. 216.
[>] “singular, fateful”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “little book”: FLV, p. 208.
[>] “certainly did not”: Quoted in VM, p. 256.
[>] “say nothing”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “simplicity” . . . “unspoiled nature”: FLV, p. 271.
[>] “ignorant of great”: FLV, p. 248.
[>] consider “nothing”: FLV, p. 291.
[>] “excellent practical”: FLV, p. 261.
[>] “I wish to be”: FLIV, p. 262.
[>] “all of me”: Leopold Wellisz, “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” Bulletin of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, vol. 4, 1945–46, p. 99.
[>] “offered me”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “the splendidest”: FLV, p. 305.
[>] “I have not”: FLIV, p. 266.
[>] “a person”: FLV, p. 250.
[>] “Nature has been”: FLV, p. 271.
[>] “an obscure”: FLV, p. 250.
[>] “Giovanni,” as Margaret introduced: Rebecca Spring, quoted in VM, p. 261.
[>] “gentle friend”: FLV, p. 248.
[>] “never dream[ing]”: FLV, p. 292.
[>] “Do not”: “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” p. 102.
[>] “try to bring away”: “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” p. 103.
[>] “A single”: FLIV, p. 273.
[>] “I take interest”: FLIV, p. 271.
[>] “a kind of springtime”: FLIV, p. 273.
[>] “busy and intellectual”: FLIV, p. 291.
[>] “a circle”: FLIV, p. 295.
[>] “very profitable”: FLIV, p. 285.
[>] “nearly killed”: FLIV, p. 286.
[>] “quiet room”: FLIV, p. 283.
[>] “advantage I derive”: FLIV, p. 284.
[>] “Who can”: Dispatches, p. 140.
[>] “I passed”: FLIV, p. 284.
[>] “alone with glo
rious Italy”: FLIV, p. 290.
[>] “a yearning”: FLIV, p. 277.
[>] “a wicked irritation”: FLIV, p. 291.
[>] “I begin”: FLIV, p. 293.
[>] “In this Europe”: FLIV, p. 288.
[>] “most fortunate”: FLIV, pp. 295–96.
[>] “specimen of the really”: FLIV, p. 294.
[>] “into contact”: FLIV, pp. 291–92.
[>] “women in Europe”: FLVI, p. 48.
[>] “fair and brilliant”: FLIV, p. 291.
[>] “one of the emancipated”: FLIV, p. 311.
[>] “pretty girls”: FLV, p. 42.
[>] “account of his”: ELIII, pp. 377–78 and 378n.
[>] “everlasting struggles”: Quoted in CFII, p. 324.
[>] “one to whom”: ELIII, p. 377.
[>] “these millennial”: ELIII, p. 400.
[>] “run out”: ELIII, p. 394.
[>] “O Sappho”: ELIII, p. 401.
[>] “rugged” translation: ELIII, p. 183. For the translation, see J. Chesley Matthews, ed., “Emerson’s Translation of Dante’s Vita Nuova,” Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 11, nos. 2, 3, 1957.
[>] “almost unique”: JMNVIII, p. 369.
[>] “the Polander”: ELIII, p. 400.
[>] “Give All to Love”: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 9, Poems (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 179–81.
[>] “give all for love”: “The Friendship of Margaret Fuller d’Ossoli and Adam Mickiewicz,” pp. 105–6.
[>] words were “harsh”: Ibid., p. 107.
[>] “Do not forget”: Ibid., p. 106.
[>] “Literature is not”: Ibid., pp. 107–8.
[>] “The relationships”: Ibid., p. 106.
[>] earned far less: FLIV, p. 256.
[>] “Tumbledown-Hall”: ELIII, p. 411.
[>] “peristyle gables”: ELIII, p. 413.
[>] “we all succeed”: ELIII, p. 394.
[>] “legal fraction”: FLV, p. 71.
[>] “ten or even five”: FLIV, p. 300.
[>] “My uncle”: FLV, pp. 70–71.
[>] “302 “the inward man”: Quoted in CFII, p. 324.
[>] “poor text”: FLIV, p. 297.
[>] “Amid the prayers”: FLIV, p. 298n.
[>] “American friend”: Quoted in VM, p. 252.
[>] “You do not”: Quoted in CFII, p. 324.
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