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FULLER, Sarah Margaret (1810-1850), author, transcendalist. Autograph letter signed ("S. M. Fuller") to Mr. Little, 30 May 1844. 1 page, 4to, slight age-toning, docketed on verso.
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FULLER, Sarah Margaret (1810-1850), author, transcendalist. Autograph letter signed ("S. M. Fuller") to Mr. Little, 30 May 1844. 1 page, 4to, slight age-toning, docketed on verso.
MARGARET FULLER WRITES TO HER PUBLISHER ABOUT HER FORTHCOMING BOOK, Summer on the Lakes, 1843. "I understand my book cannot be out for three or four days. In that case, please let Mr. Clarke have the sheets. I will answer for his care." After surrendering her post as editor of the Dial to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fuller took a trip to the Great Lakes region in the summer of 1843, which forms the basis of this book, published by Little and Brown in 1844. "Organized as a series of travel episodes interspersed with literary and social commentary, the work displays a style common to the portfolios, sketch books, and commonplace books kept by educated nineteenth-century women. In addition to her own thoughts about natural landscapes and human encounters, Fuller includes stories, legends, allegorical dialogues, poems, and excerpts from the works of other authors... Fuller traveled by train, steamboat, carriage, and on foot in a circle from Niagara Falls north to Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, west to Milwaukee, south to Pawpaw, Illinois, and back to Buffalo. Fuller discusses Chicago in some detail, and laments the unjust treatment of Native Americans. She comments on the difficulties of pioneer life for women and on the degradation of the region's beautiful and exhilarating natural environment" (Library of Congress).
MARGARET FULLER WRITES TO HER PUBLISHER ABOUT HER FORTHCOMING BOOK, Summer on the Lakes, 1843. "I understand my book cannot be out for three or four days. In that case, please let Mr. Clarke have the sheets. I will answer for his care." After surrendering her post as editor of the Dial to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fuller took a trip to the Great Lakes region in the summer of 1843, which forms the basis of this book, published by Little and Brown in 1844. "Organized as a series of travel episodes interspersed with literary and social commentary, the work displays a style common to the portfolios, sketch books, and commonplace books kept by educated nineteenth-century women. In addition to her own thoughts about natural landscapes and human encounters, Fuller includes stories, legends, allegorical dialogues, poems, and excerpts from the works of other authors... Fuller traveled by train, steamboat, carriage, and on foot in a circle from Niagara Falls north to Mackinac Island and Sault Ste. Marie, west to Milwaukee, south to Pawpaw, Illinois, and back to Buffalo. Fuller discusses Chicago in some detail, and laments the unjust treatment of Native Americans. She comments on the difficulties of pioneer life for women and on the degradation of the region's beautiful and exhilarating natural environment" (Library of Congress).