Margaret Fuller (69 page)

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   “I value you”:
FLII,
p. 213.

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   “no mortal”:
FLII,
p. 111.

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   “my own priest”:
OMI,
p. 99.

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   “new alliance”:
FLII,
p. 183.

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   she was her “Priestess”:
FLII,
p. 187.

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   “the deepest privacy”:
FLII,
p. 173.

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   “I grow”:
The Essential Margaret Fuller,
p. 12.

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   an ideal “community”:
FLII,
pp. 179–80.

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   “tangled wood-walks”:
FLII,
p. 64.

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   “Waldo is”:
FLII,
p. 170.

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   “I wish”:
FLVI,
p. 330.

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   “to sail downward”:
FLII,
p. 163.

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   “a sort of”:
OMI,
p. 308.

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   “all things”:
FLII,
p. 160.

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   “To you”:
ELVII,
p. 402.

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   “Friendship,” Waldo would: RWE, “Friendship,” p. 343.

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   “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.

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   “purest ideal”:
FLII,
pp. 191–92.

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   “fledglings of Community”:
FLII,
p. 209.

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   “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.

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   “with common”:
OMI,
p. 99.

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   “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.

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   “Now all seems”:
FLII,
p. 106.

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   “Is it not better”:
JMNVII,
p. 63.

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   “dissonance, of transition”:
FLVI,
p. 332.

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   “a total failure” . . . “I will not”:
FLII,
p. 194.

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   “one thing”:
FLII,
p. 180.

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   difference between “Living”:
FLII,
p. 184.

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   “a firmer hold”:
FLII,
p. 180.

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   “The Phalanx”:
FLII,
p. 163.

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   “who have dared”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, “A Glimpse of Christ’s Idea of Society,”
Dial,
vol. 2, no. 2, October 1841, p. 222.

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   “limitations of human nature”:
FLII,
p. 109.

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   “At the name”:
ELII,
p. 364.

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   “University”:
ELII,
pp. 323–24.

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   “indifference” might “seem incredible”:
FLII,
p. 197.

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   “The Abolition cause”:
FLII,
pp. 197–98.

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   “women are Slaves”:
JMNVII,
p. 48.

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   “constellation, not a phalanx”:
FLIII,
p. 154.

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   “Once I was”:
FLII,
p. 202.

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   “living so long”:
FLII,
p. 69.

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   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.

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   “do something frivolous”:
FLII,
p. 107.

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   “Love and Insight”: CS,
Dial,
vol. 1, no. 3, January 1841, p. 305.

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   “field[s] of outsight”: Quoted in “The ‘Dry-Lighted Soul,’” pp. 56–57.

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   “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.”

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   “modern men”:
Margaret and Her Friends,
p. 101.

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   Transcendentalist “Coterie”:
FLVI,
p. 332.

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   “If ever”:
FLIII,
p. 66.

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   “a good neighborhood”:
JMNVIII,
pp. 172–73.

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   “living in”:
JMNVIII,
p. 93.

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   “an earnest” . . . “a great deal”:
FLII,
p. 210.

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   “
that
seems feasible”:
FLII,
p. 208.

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   “fled out of”:
ELIII,
p. 7.

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   “Nature . . . has crushed”:
ELIII,
p. 9.

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   “how bad”:
ELIII,
p. 9.

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   “our fair boy”:
ELIII,
p. 9.

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   “every cherished”:
ELIII,
p. 10.

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   “Margaret Fuller”:
JMNVIII,
p. 165.

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   “Shall I”:
ELIII,
p. 8.

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   “Must every”:
ELIII,
p. 9.

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   Lidian was “saintly”:
FLII,
p. 160; “holiness”:
FLI,
p. 328.

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   “a bible”:
FLII,
p. 160.

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   “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.

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   “Marriage should”:
JMNVIII,
p. 95.

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   “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.

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   “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.

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   “ruined health”:
FLII,
p. 81.

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   “lack of”:
FLIII,
p. 164.

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   “mourned that I”:
OMI,
p. 99.

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   “perfect” friends: “Margaret Fuller’s Boston Conversations,” p. 218.

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   “We cannot”:
JMNVIII,
p. 95.

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   “Never confess”: Lidian Jackson Emerson, “Transcendental Bible,” in Joel Myerson, ed.,
Transcendentalism: A Reader
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 381–82.

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   “Let there”:
ELIII,
p. 53.

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   “we shall”:
ELIII,
p. 81.

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   “our poor Dial”:
ELIII,
pp. 36–37.

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   “rotation in martyrdom”:
ELIII,
p. 35.

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   “desk & inkhorn”:
ELIII,
p. 75.

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   “red room” . . . “long word”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 338.

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   “questioning season”: MF to WHC,
FLIII,
p. 91.

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   “we go but” . . . “more at home” . . . “we do not”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 323; “are moderate now”: p. 326.

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   “burst into tears” . . . “a painful”: Ibid., p. 331.

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   “looked at”: Ibid.

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   “lurking hope”: Ibid., p. 332.

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   “more his companion”: Ibid., p. 331.

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   Lidian’s “magnanimity”: Ibid., p. 332.

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   “wonderful sleepless”:
ELIII,
p. 62.

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   “when my soul”:
FLII,
p. 160.

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   “You would have”:
JMNVII,
p. 400.

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   “the holy man”:
FLII,
p. 147.

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   “I see”:
JMNVII,
p. 400.

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   “my long”:
ELIII,
p. 62.

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   “interrogating, interrogating”:
JMNVIII,
p. 196.

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   “talking, as we almost”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 330.

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   “Man,” he told her: Ibid.

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   “claim a devotion”: Ibid., pp. 330–31.

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   “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.

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   “it has not”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” pp. 329, 327.

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   “capital” letter: Ibid., p. 333.

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   “some ill”: Ibid., p. 334.

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   “nowise convinced”: Ibid., p. 335.

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   “my poor”: Ibid.

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   “left Ellen”: Ibid.

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   “He reads”: Ibid., p. 336.

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   “took it”: Ibid., pp. 335–36.

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   “no tragedy”: Ibid., p. 336.

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   “be impossible”: Robert D. Habich, “Margaret Fuller’s Journal for October 1842,”
Harvard Library Bulletin,
vol. 33, no. 3, 1985, p. 285.

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   “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.

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   “a succession”: “Margaret Fuller’s Journal for October 1842,” p. 286.

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   “the true”: “Margaret Fuller’s 1842 Journal,” p. 336.

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   “because he dont”: Ibid., p. 332.

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   “radiant genius”:
JMNXVI,
p. 22.

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   “woman, self-centred”: MF, “The Great Lawsuit,” p. 47.

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   “lumber waggon”:
FLIII,
p. 137.

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   “To Rhea”: RWE,
Dial,
vol. 4, no. 1, July 1843, p. 104.

13. “THE NEWEST NEW WORLD”

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   “fire winged”:
FLIII,
p. 131.

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   “lost its interest” . . . “the newest”:
FLIII,
p. 147.

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   “the birth”: MF, journal passage dated July 1844, quoted in
JMNXI,
p. 461.

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   “dripping” rain:
FLIII,
p. 126.

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   “known it all”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 125.

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   “with eyes full”:
JMNIX,
p. 19.

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   “woo the mighty” . . . “the Americanisms”:
SOL,
pp. 18, 6.

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   “continual stress” . . . “so much”:
SOL,
p. 3;
FLIII,
p. 131.

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   “no escape”:
SOL,
p. 3.

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   “hordes” of immigrants: MF journal, quoted in
CFII,
p. 125.

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   “life-blood rushes”:
SOL,
p. 19.

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   “for a plaything”:
SOL,
pp. 6–7.

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   “the conspiring”:
SOL,
p. 9.

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   “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.

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   “real old”:
FLIII,
p. 131.

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   “glut the steamboat”: MF journal, quoted in
VM,
p. 173.

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   “rudeness of conquest”:
SOL,
p. 18.

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   “make amends”: MF journal, quoted in
CFII,
p. 125.

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   “for business”: MF journal, quoted in
VM,
p. 173.

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   “
material
realities” . . . “do not ape”:
FLIII,
p. 129.

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   “talking not”:
SOL,
p. 12.

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   “I say”:
FLIII,
p. 132.

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   “oak shaded” . . . “room enough”: MF journal, quoted in
VM,
p. 174.

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   “country [where]”:
SOL,
p. 25.

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   “one of the band”: MF letter, quoted in
JMNXI,
p. 485.

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   “pleasant or natural”:
JMNXI,
p. 464.

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   “born to rove”:
SOL,
p. 26.

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   “every anecdote”: MF journal, quoted in
VM,
p. 174.

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   “blissful seclusion”:
SOL,
p. 28.

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   “we do not”: MF journal, quoted in
VM,
p. 174.

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   “so all life”:
FLIII,
p. 143.

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   “overpaid for coming”:
FLIII,
p. 133.

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   “free careless”:
FLIII,
p. 169.

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   “drinking visiters”:
SOL,
p. 26.

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   “I had never”:
SOL,
p. 33.

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   “puffs of Ameriky”:
SOL,
p. 37.