Margaret Fuller (71 page)

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   “There is no”:
WNC,
p. 103.

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   “no discordant”:
WNC,
p. 26.

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   “Patient serpent”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 74.

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   “I stand”:
WNC,
p. 163.

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   “their wounds”:
FLIV,
p. 59.

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   “Great Book”:
FLIV,
p. 59.

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   “The thousands”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 187.

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   “the opposition”:
FLIV,
p. 59.

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   “loose” . . . “chaste ideal”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 189.

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   she had been “heard”:
FLIV,
p. 56.

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   “demure Boston”: Francis B. Dedmond, “The Letters of Caroline Sturgis to Margaret Fuller,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1988 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 232.

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   “The style”: Ibid., p. 239.

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   “one of her “trances”: Ibid., p. 231.

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   “It makes me”: Ibid., p. 239.

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   “I have found”:
FLIV,
p. 64.

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   “first time”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 101.

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   “prison” of Captain Sturgis’s: “The Letters of Caroline Sturgis to Margaret Fuller,” p. 235.

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   “has the physical”: Quoted in
Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife,
vol. 1, p. 258.

15. “FLYING ON THE PAPER WINGS OF EVERY DAY”

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   “dull and dubious”: Judith Matson Bean and Joel Myerson, eds.,
Margaret Fuller, Critic: Writings from the
New-York Tribune
, 1844–1846
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), p. 98.

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   “should be looked at”: Ibid.

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   “building plan: Alison R. Brown, “Reform and Curability in American Insane Asylums of the 1840’s: The Conflict of Motivation Between Humanitarian Efforts and the Efforts of the Superintendent ‘Brethren,’”
Constructing the Past,
vol. 2, no. 1, 2010, p. 12.

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   “parsimony” was “the worst”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 104.

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   “intelligent sympathy”: Ibid., p. 99.

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   “vagrant, degraded”: Ibid., p. 98.

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   “openings to a better”: Ibid., p. 99.

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   “careless scrutiny”: Ibid., pp. 99–100.

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   “a school”: Ibid., p. 100.

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   “show[ed] by their”: Ibid., p. 101.

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   “no eye”: Ibid., p. 101.

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   “one of the gloomiest”: Ibid., p. 102.

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   “I have always”:
FLIV,
p. 46.

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   “women like myself”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 205.

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   “receive the punishment”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 102.

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   “to aid”:
FLVI,
p. 359.

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   “for those”: Francis B. Dedmond, “The Letters of Caroline Sturgis to Margaret Fuller,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1988 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), p. 329.

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   “made acceptable”: Quoted in Susan Belasco Smith, “Margaret Fuller in New York: Private Letters, Public Texts,”
Documentary Editing,
vol. 18, no. 3, September 1996, p. 66; ten dollars:
CFII,
p. 198. See also Paula Kopacz, “Feminist at the ‘Tribune’: Margaret Fuller as Professional Writer,”
Studies in the American Renaissance,
1991 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia), pp. 119–39.

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   “an excellent”: John Wesley Thomas, ed.,
The
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller
(Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 145.

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   “mutual education”:
FLVI,
p. 359.

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   “scenes” . . . “materials”: 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, pp. 77, 101.

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   “would have suggested”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
pp. 99–100.

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   “Do you want”: MF, “Asylum for Discharged Female Convicts,”
New-York Daily Tribune,
June 19, 1845, C143 in CD-ROM accompanying
Margaret Fuller, Critic.

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   “chief mental focus”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 2.

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   “more fine”: “‘The Impulses of Human Nature,’” p. 86.

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   “the old spirit”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 8.

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   “the contributions”: Ibid., p. 29.

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   “nature” . . . “excommunicated” . . . “regret”: Ibid., pp. 94, 96, 97.

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   “performed with a degree”: MF, “Music in New-York,”
New-York Daily Tribune,
January 18, 1845, C088 in CD-ROM accompanying
Margaret Fuller, Critic.

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   “There is no reason”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
pp. 102–3.

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   “worthy the admiration”: “Music in New-York.” Background sources for New York City in the 1840s: Lydia Maria Child,
Letters from New-York,
Bruce Mills, ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998); Gloria Deak,
Picturing New York: The City from Its Beginnings to the Present
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2000); John Doggett Jr.,
The Great Metropolis; or, New York in 1845
(New York: John Doggett Jr., 1845); Eric Homberger,
The Historical Atlas of New York City
(New York: Henry Holt, 1994); Eric Homberger,
Scenes from the Life of a City: Corruption and Conscience in Old New York
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994); George K. Lankevich,
American Metropolis: A History of New York City
(New York: New York University Press, 1998); Howard B. Rock and Deborah Dash Moore,
Cityscapes: A History of New York in Images
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2001); Nathan Silver,
Lost New York
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967); Edward K. Spann,
The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840–1857
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1981); François Weil,
A History of New York
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2004); Norval White,
New York: A Physical History
(New York: Atheneum, 1987).

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   “go-ahead, fearless adroitness”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 127.

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   “mother of men”:
ELIII,
p. 19.

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   unkempt newspaperman: See Robert C. Williams,
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom
(New York: New York University Press, 2006), p. xii.

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   “thickly settled”:
FLIII,
p. 250.

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   “Grahamites and Hydropaths”:
FLIV,
p. 45.

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   “strong potations” . . . “Skin”: Quoted in
CFII,
pp. 218, 219.

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   “a winding”: Quoted in
Scenes from the Life of a City,
pp. 214–15.

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   “I like living”:
FLIV,
p. 51.

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   “in his habits”:
FLIV,
p. 56.

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   “what turmoil”: Horace Greeley, quoted in
CFII,
p. 199.

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   “flying on the paper”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
pp. 14–15.

16. “A HUMAN SECRET, LIKE MY OWN”

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   “like an inspired”: Rebecca Spring and MF, quoted in
CFII,
pp. 206–7.

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   “dismal inky”: Richard Henry Dana Jr., quoted in
CFII,
p. 197.

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   “to make”:
ELIII,
p. 268.

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   “fine head” . . . “her large gray”: Quoted in
CFII,
p. 216.

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   “not pleasant”:
FLIV,
pp. 59–60.

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   “merry season”: MF,
Essays on American Life and Letters,
Joel Myerson, ed. (Albany, N.Y.: NCUP, 1978), p. 277.

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   “even those”: Ibid., p. 279.

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   “how very little”: Ibid., p. 280.

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   “partial inferiority”:
FLIV,
p. 158.

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   “supersensual” science:
Essays on American Life,
pp. 271–72.

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   “this ugly”: MF journal, quoted in
CFII,
p. 137.

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   “a prospect”:
FLVI,
p. 356.

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   “rule of life” . . . “means by which”:
Essays on American Life,
pp. 273, 272.

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   Woman’s “intuitions”:
WNC,
p. 91.

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   “we do not”: MF, “Review of Theodore Leger,
Animal Magnetism; or, Psychodunamy,
”
New-York Daily Tribune,
May 30, 1846, C294 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).

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   “patience” . . . “more rapid”:
Essays on American Life,
pp. 273, 276.

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   “free from prejudice”: “Review of Theodore Leger.”

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   “no sleep”:
FLIV,
p. 59.

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   reports from friends:
FLIV,
p. 61n.

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   “held his right hand”:
FLIV,
p. 61n.

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   “a power”: “Review of Theodore Leger.”

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   “what I meet”:
FLIV,
p. 59.

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   “stronger passions”:
WNC,
p. 136.

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   “a truly happy”:
FLIV,
p. 65.

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   “the new knowledge”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
p. 14.

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   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.

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   of her “beloved”:
FLIV,
p. 82; James Nathan’s travel letters in the
Tribune:
FLIV,
pp. 146, 159.

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   “nameless relation”:
FLIV,
p. 75.

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   “some day”:
FLIV,
p. 47.

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   “the utmost”:
WNC,
p. 55.

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   “prized . . . both as a warning”:
Margaret Fuller, Critic,
pp. 57–58.

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   “there are”:
FLIV,
p. 95.

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   “boldness, simplicity”:
FLIV,
p. 74.

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   “never know” . . . “wholly”:
FLIV,
p. 65.

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   “wish to hear”:
FLIV,
p. 62.

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   “show me how”:
FLIV,
p. 47.

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   “restless sad”:
FLIV,
p. 100.

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   “my mind”:
FLIV,
p. 52.

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   “twenty four”:
FLIV,
p. 68.

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   “
my dear
”:
FLIV,
p. 64.

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   “these little”:
FLIV,
p. 65.

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   “last Winter’s”:
FLIV,
pp. 66–67.

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   “one feels”:
FLIV,
p. 62.

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   “suffer an untimely”:
FLIV,
p. 66.

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   “there is to be”:
FLIV,
p. 65.

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   “a cold faintness”:
FLIV,
p. 69.

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   “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.

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   “an injured woman”:
FLIV,
p. 68.

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   “broken through”:
FLIV,
p. 67.

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   “English maiden”:
FLIV,
p. 191.

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   “deserted” a woman: Rebecca Spring, quoted in
CFII,
p. 223.

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   “I have elected”:
FLIV,
p. 70.

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   “Could the heart”:
FLIV,
pp. 68–70.

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   “
That
I know”:
FLIV,
p. 67.

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   “the path”:
FLIV,
pp. 69–70.

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   “The golden time”:
FLIV,
p. 70.

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   she draped:
FLIV,
p. 114.

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   “I am with you”:
FLIV,
pp. 72–73.

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   “approached” Margaret “so nearly”:
FLIV,
p. 75.

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   “Yesterday was”:
FLIV,
p. 77.

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   “the sweet”:
FLIV,
p. 73.

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   “earth-stain” ever be:
FLIV,
p. 77.

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   “It seemed the work”:
FLIV,
pp. 75–76.

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   the man of “force”:
FLIV,
p. 100.

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   “‘
the dame’”
:
FLIV,
p. 78.

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   “so much”:
FLIV,
p. 75.