ARCHIVES OF FULLER MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPERS

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, HOUGHTON RARE BOOK LIBRARY

The single most important collection of Fuller papers, the Houghton Library contains many of Fuller’s journals, notes, manuscripts, letters, as well as bound copies of many of her essays.

Follow this link for an index of the Margaret Fuller Collection Ms AM 1086.

BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, DEPT. OF MANUSCRIPTS AND RARE BOOKS

Many of Fuller’s most important journals entries and poems are located under the call number MS Am 1450.

MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Massachusetts Historical Society contains half of Fuller’s crucial 1844 journal, published by Martha L. Berg and Alice De V. Perry as “’The Impulses of Human Nature’: Margaret Fuller’s Journal from June through October 1844” in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. CII (1990).

FRUITLANDS MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS.

The Fruitlands Museum holds the other half of Fuller’s 1844 journal.

FULLER’S SYMBOLS

Alchemical symbolism and imagery
   The Alchemy Web site
   The stages of the alchemical process

Carbuncle
    The Myth of the Carbuncle (used by Shakespeare)
    Wikipedia article
    Hawthorne story, “The Great Carbuncle” (etext)

Divine feminine
    Isis, Egyptian goddess
    Sistrum of Isis
    Minerva

Flowers
    Early handbooks to floral sentiments

Phoenix (often spelled “phenix” by Fuller)
    Adam McLean, “The Birds in Alchemy” (including the phoenix)
     Phoenix in mythology

Rosicrucian symbols
    Secret symbols of the Rosicrucians of the 16th and 17th centuries

Sacred Marriage
    Overview of Carl Jung’s view of the “mysterium coniunctionis