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MS Am 1086

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850. Family papers: Index.

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Last update 2009 October 7

Descriptive Summary

Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
Location: f
Location: b
Call No.: MS Am 1086
Creator: Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
Title: Family papers,
Date(s): 1662-1909 (inclusive),
Date(s): 1760-1864 (bulk).
Quantity: 22 v. and 4 boxes (7 linear ft.)
Abstract: Index to correspondence of the American social reformer Margaret Fuller.

Processing Information:

There is no comprehensive finding aid to this collection. This finding aid is an index to the correspondence.

Acquisition Information:

Recataloged from MS Am 9025.
Bequest of Edith D. Fuller; received: 1926 .

Use Restrictions:

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Historical Note

Fuller was an American author, editor, critic, and social reformer interested in Transcendentalism, feminism, and the revolution in Rome.

Arrangement

Organized into the following sections:

Scope and Content

The Fuller family papers contains correspondence, journals, and writings of Margaret Fuller, including letters she wrote as a child to her father; correspondence with her husband Giovanni Angelo Ossoli; letters to other relatives and friends; notebooks on her reading, literary studies, and the first issue of the Dial; clippings of her articles for the New York Tribune; "Italian letters"; her Roman diary, 1849, that was washed ashore; and a daguerreotype of a painting of Fuller. Much of the material is handwritten transcriptions of the originals. The Ossoli-Fuller letters have been translated into English. Also contains much original correspondence between her parents Timothy Fuller, a lawyer and politician, and Margarett Crane Fuller; their correspondence with their children; and the correspondence of the younger Margaret Fuller's brothers, especially Arthur Fuller, a minister.
Timothy Fuller's papers include diaries, journals, orations, college themes, an expense book he kept while a student at Harvard, 1797-1801, and his correspondence with family, friends, and associates. Arthur Fuller's papers consist mainly of letters written to his wife and brothers when he was an army chaplain during the Civil War.
Collection also contains poems and notebooks of Richard Fuller, a younger brother; a few portraits of Margaret Fuller and biographical essays about her; clippings on the shipwreck in which she, her husband, and son died; correspondence and printed material concerning memorials to Margaret Fuller; and early family correspondence and documents.

Container List


Item (1) is the only piece actually cataloged in this collection.

I. Index to general correspondence

II. Index to Arthur B. Fuller correspondence

III. Index to Fuller family correspondence


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