Margaret Fuller (68 page)

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   “a prophet”: “Menzel’s View of Goethe,”
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, pp. 340–47.

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   “rich in thoughts”:
FLII,
p. 185.

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   “A man’s idea”:
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 357.

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   “exponent of Literary Liberty”: Critical response quoted in
New England Transcendentalists and
The Dial, p. 62.

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   “most original”: Theodore Parker, “German Literature,”
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 320.

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   “No one of all”:
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 405.

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   essay titled “Woman”:
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, pp. 362–66.

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   “not like a botanist”:
FLII,
pp. 165–66.

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   “singing to herself”: MF, “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,”
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, pp. 299–305.

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   “I cannot”:
FLII,
p. 167.

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   “prize the monitions”: “The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain,” p. 299.

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   ticket fees:
New England Transcendentalists and
The Dial, p. 63.

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   “the good Public”:
ELII,
p. 376.

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   “fervid Southern”:
ELII,
p. 378.

12. COMMUNITIES AND COVENANTS

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   “to hear you”:
ELII,
p. 364.

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   “I thought”:
ELVII,
p. 445.

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   missed the opening session:
ELII,
p. 383.

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   “a more simple”: Quoted in Sterling F. Delano,
Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), p. 34.

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   “simple earnestness”:
FLII,
p. 101.

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   “I was no longer”: Ednah Dow Cheney,
Reminiscences
(Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1902), p. 205.

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   “the club”:
ELII,
p. 293.

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   “when once”:
JMNXI,
p. 476–77, and
FLII,
pp. 101–2.

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   “denationalize” and subsequent quotations from 1841 opening Conversations: Caroline W. Healey Dall,
Margaret and Her Friends
(Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1895), pp. 26–29, 31–38. See also Joel Myerson, “Mrs. Dall Edits Miss Fuller: The Story of Margaret and Her Friends,”
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,
vol. 72, no. 2, 1978, pp. 187–200.

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   “seemed melted” . . . “relation” . . . “perfectly true”: MF to WHC in
JMNXI,
p. 477.

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   “We have time”: MF to Sarah Helen Whitman,
FLII,
p. 118.

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   “all kindled”: MF to WHC in
JMNXI,
p. 477.

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   “distinct in expression”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit. Man
versus
Men. Woman
versus
Women,”
Dial,
vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 21.

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   “met as”:
Margaret and Her Friends,
p. 13.

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   “perpetual wall”:
FLVI,
p. 322.

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   “
bounteous giver
” and passages from this Conversation:
Margaret and Her Friends,
pp. 41–46.

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   “there were too many”: Ibid., p. 117.

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   “few present”: Ibid., p. 156.

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   “they will get free”:
FLII,
p. 205.

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   “never enjoyed” . . . “in no way”:
Margaret and Her Friends,
p. 13.

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   “I love her”: Ibid., p. 156.

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   “blunder” and subsequent Conversation on Psyche: Ibid., pp. 113–15.

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   “pilgrimage of [the] soul”: Ibid., p. 97.

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   “the Productive Energy”: Ibid., p. 38.

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   “what is dear”: Ibid., p. 41.

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   “bound in the belt”:
JMNXI,
p. 256.

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   “more alone”:
FLIII,
p. 47.

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   their “constellation”:
FLIII,
p. 154.

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   “the young people”:
ELII,
p. 384.

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   “game of wits”:
ELII,
p. 385.

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   “We have a great”: RWE, “Friendship,”
Essays and Lectures
(New York: Library of America, 1983), p. 341.

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   “our friendship”:
ELII,
p. 385.

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   “my need”:
FLII,
p. 159.

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   “most unfriendly”:
FLII,
p. 171.

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   “masculine obligations”:
FLIII,
p. 213.

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   “this light”:
FLII,
p. 159.

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   budding “Genii”:
FLII,
p. 124.

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   Concord “sage”:
FLII,
p. 170.

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   “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.

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   “gipsy” freedom:
JMNVIII,
p. 289.

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   “belong[ed] to the”:
FLII,
p. 205.

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   “good letters”:
FLII,
p. 53.

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   “guests so queenly”:
ELII,
p. 129.

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   “surprised me into”:
ELII,
p. 143.

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   “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.

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   “engaged my cold”:
JMNVII,
p. 15.

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   “her blasphemies”: Quoted in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul,’” p. 47.

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   “lofty” willfulness: Quoted in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul,’” p. 48.

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   “Greatly to Be”: CS, “Life,”
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 2, October 1840, p. 195.

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   “the right poetry”:
JMNVII,
p. 372.

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   “Be not afraid”:
FLII,
p. 103.

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   “good vagabond”:
JMNVIII,
p. 289.

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   “full of indirections”:
JMNVIII,
p. 289.

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   “a great genius”:
JMNVIII,
p. 352.

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   “I think”:
FLII,
p. 150.

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   taken to calling “Raphael”:
FLII,
p. 49.

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   “gone so much” . . . “a joyful song”:
FLII,
p. 171.

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   “How did you”:
FLII,
p. 90.

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   “You would not”:
FLII,
pp. 80–81.

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   “bitterness of checked”:
FLII,
p. 81.

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   “incapable of feeling”:
FLII,
p. 90.

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   “We knew”:
FLII,
p. 81.

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   would “spoil” him:
FLII,
p. 91.

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   “You have given”:
FLII,
p. 91.

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   “star of stars”:
FLII,
p. 47.

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   “I understand”:
FLII,
p. 95.

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   “though I might”:
FLII,
pp. 95–96.

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   “strip of paper”:
JMNVII,
p. 259.

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   “A new person”: RWE, “Friendship,” p. 343.

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   “Cold as I am”:
JMNVII,
pp. 273–75.

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   “young man”:
FLII,
p. 81.

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   “The wind”:
JMNVII,
p. 260.

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   “chill wind”:
FLII,
p. 95.

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   “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.

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   “bird has flown” . . . “ague”: Samuel Gray Ward, quoted in “The True Romance,” p. 67.

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   “emaciated,” by Margaret’s:
FLII,
p. 150.

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   “implied another”:
ELVII,
p. 404.

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   “eldest and divinest”:
FLII,
p. 93.

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   “soaring like”:
FLII,
p. 150.

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   “willing” to be: MF, quoted by RWE in
ELII,
p. 325.

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   “I count & weigh”:
ELII,
p. 325.

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   “a good horse”:
ELII,
p. 323.

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   “the debt”:
ELVII,
p. 402.

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   “More fleet”: RWE, “The Visit,”
Dial,
vol. 4, no. 4, April 1844, p. 528.

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   “I thought she”:
ELVII,
p. 404.

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   “angel has appeared”:
ELII,
p. 339.

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   “The duration”: RWE, “The Visit,” p. 528.

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   “with a certain”:
ELVII,
p. 404.

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   “If you will”:
FLII,
p. 69.

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   “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.

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   “The higher”: RWE, “Friendship,” p. 352.

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   “What a spendthrift”:
JMNX,
p. 94.

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   “absolute all-confiding”:
JMNXI,
p. 495.

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   “Life is” . . . “On comes”:
JMNVII,
p. 48.

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   “We are armed”:
JMNVII,
p. 106.

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   “stricken soul”:
JMNVII,
p. 48.

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   “a man wakes”: Quoted in Robert D. Richardson Jr.,
Emerson: The Mind on Fire
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 280.

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   “taxed” Waldo:
ELII,
p. 325.

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   “It is even so”:
JMNVII,
p. 301.

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   “friendship of”:
JMNVII,
p. 315.

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   “see the ludicrousness” . . . “privation”:
JMNVII,
p. 301.

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   “in my heart”:
JMNVII,
p. 315.

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   “might destroy”:
FLII,
p. 104.

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   “Wise man”:
Dial,
untitled lines of prose, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 136.

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   “admire the winding up”:
FLII,
p. 146.

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   “of being often”:
ELII,
p. 327.

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   “dared” to entertain:
ELII,
p. 351.

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   “I have lived”:
ELII,
p. 327.

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   “tell you how”:
FLII,
p. 157.

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   her promise:
FLII,
p. 154.

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   “for the joy”:
ELII,
pp. 327–28.

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   “I need to”:
FLII,
p. 160.

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   “I ought never”:
ELII,
p. 352.

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   “live as”:
ELII,
pp. 352–53.

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   “I write” . . . “I have dreamed” . . . “these extraordinary”:
ELII,
p. 332.

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   “new covenant”:
ELII,
p. 339.

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   Waldo wrote “gladly”:
JMNVII,
p. 512.

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   “I am yours”:
ELII,
p. 336.

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   “reconcile our”:
ELII,
p. 349.

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   “Sometimes you appeal”:
ELII,
p. 352.

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   “If Love”: RWE, “The Visit,” p. 528.

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   “a life more intense”:
FLII,
p. 66.

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   “O these tedious”:
FLII,
p. 170.

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   “You are intellect”:
FLIII,
p. 209.

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   “I have felt”:
FLII,
p. 159.

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   “deep living force”:
FLIII,
p. 120.

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   “Could I lead”:
FLII,
p. 159.

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   “highest office”:
FLII,
p. 159.

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   “faithful through”:
FLII,
p. 214.

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   “I know not”:
FLII,
p. 160.

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   “Did not you”:
FLII,
p. 160.