Margaret Fuller (65 page)

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   that “self-dependence”:
WNC,
p. 28.

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   “pilgrim and sojourner”:
FLVI,
p. 134.

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   “not as a plaything”:
WNC,
p. 27.

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   “conform to an object”:
SOL,
p. 151.

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   “always suffered much”: Thanksgiving Day narrative,
OMI,
pp. 139–42.

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   “communion with”:
FLI,
p. 347.

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   “epoch of pride” . . . “haughty”:
FLII,
p. 154.

7. “MY HEART HAS NO PROPER HOME”

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   “too tamely”:
FLIII,
p. 85.

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   “neither beautiful”:
FLVI,
p. 213.

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   “characters” . . . “amusing”:
FLI,
p. 190.

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   “where there is never”:
FLI,
p. 178.

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   “This is the first”:
FLI,
p. 198.

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   “a sweet youth”:
FLVI,
p. 212.

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   “collisions,” Margaret called:
FLIII,
p. 85.

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   “in a dark room”:
FLI,
p. 180.

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   “I greeted”:
FLI,
p. 180.

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   “
only
grown-up daughter”:
FLI,
p. 201.

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   “sitting-still occupations”:
FLVI,
p. 212.

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   “My fingers”:
FLVI,
pp. 215–16.

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   “domestic tyrant”: MF, “Lives of the Great Composers,”
Dial,
vol. 2, no. 2, October 1841, p. 178.

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   “hardening” labor: Richard Fuller, quoted in
CFI,
p. 122.

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   the spot “Hazel-grove”:
OMI,
p. 154.

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   “I used to look”:
OMI,
p. 170.

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   “ill-judged exchange”:
FLIII,
p. 85.

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   “some might sneer”:
FLVI,
p. 274.

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   “seems to have”:
FLI,
p. 201.

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   “entirely absorbed”:
FLVI,
p. 245.

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   “half so friendly”:
FLI,
p. 88.

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   “oercloud” . . . “brought me”:
FLVI,
p. 206.

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   “wild and free”:
FLVI,
p. 210.

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   “I am not a nun”:
FLVI,
p. 206.

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   “How free”: John Wesley Thomas, ed.,
The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller
(Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 43.

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   “Whatsoever thy hand”: Quoted in Paula Blanchard,
Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution
(Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1978), p. 81.

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   “The wor[ld] receives”:
FLVI,
p. 210.

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   “engrossing object”:
FLVI,
p. 216.

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   “compress all”:
FLVI,
p. 210.

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   “thrilling at the heart”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 58.

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   “Why was she a woman?”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 117.

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   “Fair, pure” . . . “my sweet” . . . “best, truest”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
pp. 52, 27, 58.

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   “Your manner”:
FLVI,
p. 210.

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   “disappointed and tortured”:
FLVI,
p. 208.

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   “prepared” to see:
FLVI,
p. 209.

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   “the breaking up”:
FLVI,
p. 209.

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   “you are gone”:
FLVI,
pp. 209–10.

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   “Margaret Good child”:
FLVI,
p. 232.

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   “no sphere”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 117.

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   “I feel as if”:
FLVI,
p. 210.

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   “You envy”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 77.

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   “Now that I have”:
FLVI,
pp. 210–11.

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   “there is no escaping”:
FLVI,
p. 215.

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   “my heart has no”:
FLVI,
p. 223.

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   “lay on the shelf”:
FLI,
p. 202.

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   “
icy
seclusion”:
FLI,
p. 195.

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   “I rejoice”:
FLVI,
p. 130.

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   “my Father has not”:
FLVI,
p. 232.

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   “try my hand”:
FLI,
p. 202.

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   “ten-thousand, thousand”:
FLI,
p. 196.

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   “is peculiarly home-sickness”:
FLI,
p. 182.

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   Writing from a biblical:
FLVI,
p. 234.

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   “could only write”:
FLVI,
p. 243.

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   connection of Eliza Farrar’s:
VM,
p. 57.

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   “walk into the Boston”:
FLVI,
p. 260.

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   “onward spirit”:
FLVI,
p. 252.

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   “to feed” . . . “Was I not”:
FLVI,
p. 232.

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   “Earning
money
”:
FLVI,
pp. 251–52.

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   “I am more”:
FLI,
p. 209.

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   “coolness of judgement”: Quoted in
FLI,
p. 228n.

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   “ROME! it stands”:
OMI,
p. 19.

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   “mild in his temper”: MF, “Brutus,”
Boston Daily Advertiser and Patriot,
November 27, 1834.

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   “My father requested”:
FLI,
p. 226.

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   “to lose this object”: “Brutus.”

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   “ability” as a writer:
FLI,
p. 226.

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   “topics of religion”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
p. 88.

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   “Don’t be afraid”: Ibid., p. 91.

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   “most brilliant circle”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 66.

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   “the ideal”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 149.

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   “no matter how severe”:
FLVI,
p. 258.

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   “We feel like an explorer”:
Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller,
pp. 94–95.

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   “one [who] has”:
FLVI,
p. 258.

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   “This going into”:
FLI,
p. 223.

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   “the art of writing”:
FLVI,
p. 257.

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   “My grand object”:
FLVI,
p. 258.

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   “die and leave”:
FLVI,
p. 254.

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   “common-place people”:
FLVI,
p. 242.

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   “I am not yet
intimate
”:
FLI,
p. 190.

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   “consent” to the time off:
FLI,
p. 230.

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   “romantic rocks”:
FLI,
p. 232.

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   “gorgeous” . . . “immense” . . . “dropped”:
FLI,
p. 233.

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   “dressed dolls”:
FLI,
p. 217.

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   “see her”:
FLVI,
p. 265.

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   “I was to him”:
FLVI,
p. 267.

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   “has what I want”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 155.

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   “all the most”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Mary Tyler Peabody, [January 31, 1835], Berg.

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   “that only clergyman”:
FLI,
p. 210.

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   “of any American”: MF to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Groton, February 3, 1836, in “Biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody” [manuscript draft] by Mary Van Wyck Church, p. 298, MHS.

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   “the reverend”:
FLVI,
p. 266.

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   “of character and manners”:
FLI,
p. 225.

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   “restless desire”:
FLI,
p. 223.

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   “write a novel”:
FLVI,
p. 261.

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   “the most gentle”:
FLVI,
p. 251.

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   “My dear”: Quoted in
VM,
p. 71.

8. “RETURNED INTO LIFE”

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   “worn to a shadow” . . . “orphan” . . . “awful calm”:
OMI,
pp. 155–56.

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   “the lifeless”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1884), p. 54.

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   “returned into life”:
FLI,
p. 244.

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   “My father’s image”:
OMI,
p. 156.

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   “I have often”:
FLI,
p. 237.

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   “a more heedful ear”:
FLI,
p. 239.

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   “make things”:
FLI,
p. 237.

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   “my boys”:
FLI,
p. 231.

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   “become more tenderly”:
FLVI,
p. 271.

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   “Art is Nature”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 150.

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   “write a
Life
”:
FLVI,
p. 260.

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   “I should like”: John Wesley Thomas, ed.,
The Letters of James Freeman Clarke to Margaret Fuller
(Hamburg: Cram, de Gruyter, 1957), p. 94.

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   “She thinks the time”:
FLVI,
p. 272.

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   “the first winter”:
FLII,
p. 168.

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   “to tear my heart”:
FLI,
p. 247.

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   “some isle”: Jeffrey Steele, ed.,
The Essential Margaret Fuller
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992), p. 1.

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   “masculine traits”: Ibid., p. 7.

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   “When with soft eyes”: Ibid., p. 2.

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   “full of poverty”:
FLII,
p. 168.

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   “the silent room”:
FLII,
p. 168.

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   “an ascetic life”:
FLII,
p. 168.

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   “bareness, her pure shroud”:
FLII,
p. 169.

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   “to forget myself”:
FLI,
p. 254.

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   “ask no more”:
FLII,
p. 169.

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   “I
was
called”:
FLI,
p. 244.

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   “a tower”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 166.

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   “happy sort”: The story is recounted in “Death in Life,”
OMI,
pp. 162–64.

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   “What I can do”:
FLI,
p. 254.

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   “get money”:
FLI,
p. 254.

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   “spiritual philosophy”: MF, quoted in
CFI,
p. 198.

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   “cultivate the heart”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody to Love Rawlins Pickman
,
Thursday evening [July 1835],
Horace Mann Collection,
microfilm edition, 40 reels (Boston: MHS, 1989), reel 4.

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   “the advantage”: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,
Record of a School, Exemplifying the General Principles of Spiritual Culture
(Boston: James Munroe, 1835), pp. 62–63.

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   “I had seen the Universe”: 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 sharing her discovery of this important article.

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   “the pilot-minds”: Quoted in
CFI,
pp. 178–79.

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   “mind-emotions”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 177.

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   “I would gladly”:
FLVI,
p. 274.

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   “liberal communion”:
FLIV,
p. 192.

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   “I believe we all”:
ELII,
pp. 46–47.

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   “assuage grief’s”: MF, “LINES—On the Death of C.C.E.,”
Daily Centinel and Gazette,
vol. 1, no. 32, May 17, 1836.

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   “little book”:
FLII,
p. 128. In this letter to RWE of April 12, 1840, MF recalls that she never read
Nature
in book form because RWE had read it aloud to her. The book was in print by the time of her next long stay in the spring of 1837.

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   “We like her”: Dolores Bird Carpenter, ed.,
The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987), p. 49.

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   “like being set”:
ELII,
p. 32.

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   “even “question[ing]” them: Mary Tyler Peabody to Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, letter beginning “I did not get . . . ,” n.d. [1836],
Horace Mann Collection,
microfilm edition, 40 reels (Boston: MHS, 1989), reel 4.

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   “more liberal”: Quoted in
CFI,
p. 197.

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   the Unitarian “Pope”: Theodore Parker, quoted in Wesley T. Mott, ed.,
Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996), p. 186.