35. L. M. Alcott to Samuel J. May, Boston, 22 January 1869, in Selected Letters, 122.
36. L. M. Alcott to Thomas Niles, early 1869, in Selected Letters, 119.
37. L. M. Alcott, 1 November 1868, Journals, 167; L. M. Alcott to Elizabeth Powell, Con cord, 20 March 1869, in Selected Letters, 125.
38. L. M. Alcott, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, 154.
39. Ibid., 510.
40. Ibid., 515.
41. Ibid., 491.
42. Ibid., 7.
43. Some of the foregoing analysis appeared in Matteson, “An Idea of Order at Concord,” 451–67.
44. L. M. Alcott, January 1869, Journals, 171.
45. Dahlstrand, Amos Bronson Alcott, 290.
46. A. B. Alcott, 26 July 1871, Journals, 422.
47. A. B. Alcott, Tablets, 99.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid., 45.
50. L. M. Alcott, September 1868, Journals, 166.
51. A. B. Alcott, Tablets, 33.
52. Ibid., 50.
53. Ibid., 46.
54. Ibid.
55. Ibid., 89.
56. Ibid., 90.
57. Emerson, Nature, in Essays and Lectures, 7.
58. A. B. Alcott, Tablets, 159.
59. A. B. Alcott, 26–27 December 1876, Journals, 393.
60. Shepard, Pedlar’s Progress, 501.
61. A. B. Alcott, Journals, 472.
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: “THE WISE AND BEAUTIFUL TRUTHS OF THE FATHER”
1. A summary of Bronson’s tabulations of Louisa’s sales may be found in Myerson, “‘Our Children Are Our Best Works,’” 262.
2. A. B. Alcott, 4 September 1869, Journals, 400.
3. Ibid.
4. L. M. Alcott, April 1869, Journals, 171.
5. L. M. Alcott to Samuel J. May, Boston, 22 January 1869, in Selected Letters, 121.
6. L. M. Alcott, April 1869, Journals, 171.
7. L. M. Alcott to the Springfield Republican, Concord, 4 May 1869, in Selected Letters, 128.
8. Ibid., 127.
9. L. M. Alcott, April 1869, Journals, 171.
10. A. B. Alcott, 30 April 1869, Journals, 396.
11. Ibid.
12. A. B. Alcott to Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney, Concord, 12 October 1869, in Letters, 496.
13. L. M. Alcott to the Alcott Family, 13 (–14) May 1870, in Letters, 135.
14. Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl, 283.
15. Ibid., 196.
16. A. B. Alcott to William Torrey Harris, 12 May 1867 and 15 January 1869, in Letters, 406, 458.
17. A. Bronson Alcott to William Torrey Harris, 22 December 1857, in Letters, 272.
18. A. B. Alcott, 1 December 1869, Journals, 403.
19. Ibid., 403.
20. Ibid., 403–4.
21. L. M. Alcott to the Alcott Family, Vevey, 20 September 1870, in Selected Letters, 151.
22. L. M. Alcott to the Alcott Family, Dinan, 30 May 1870, in Selected Letters, 137.
23. L. M. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, 24 June (–2 July) 1870, in Selected Letters, 139.
24. L. M. Alcott, April 1870, Journals, 174.
25. L. M. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, Vevey, 21 August 1870, in Selected Letters, 148.
26. Ibid.
27. L. M. Alcott, (Poems, 1859–1878), MS Am 1130.13(16), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
28. Ibid.
29. L. M. Alcott to Thomas Niles, Bex, 7 August 1870, in Selected Letters, 145.
30. L. M. Alcott to the Alcott Family, Vevey, 20 September 1870, in Selected Letters, 152.
31. L. M. Alcott, 10 November 1870, Journals, 175.
32. Ibid.
33. L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, (?) December 1870, in Selected Letters, 153.
34. One of Louisa’s letters suggests that she had already made a good start on her next novel, Little Men, when news of John’s death reached Rome. L. M. Alcott to (unknown), Rome, 29 December 1870, in Selected Letters, 158. Her journals create the contrary impression that she began the book after receiving word of Anna’s loss. L. M. Alcott, n.d. 1871, Journals, 177.
35. Clark, Louisa May Alcott, 152.
36. Ibid.
37. Peabody, “Preface to the Third Edition,” in Record of Mr. Alcott’s School, 3–4.
38. L. M Alcott, June 1871, Journals, 178.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. A. B. Alcott to Ellen A. Chandler, Concord, 28 August 1871, in Letters, 537.
42. L. M. Alcott to James T. Fields, 3 July 1871, in Selected Letters, 160.
43. L. M. Alcott, July 1871, Journals, 179.
44. L. M. Alcott to Florence Hilton, 13 March 1874, in Selected Letters, 182.
45. L. M. Alcott to Mrs. H. Koorders-Boeke, 7 August 1875, in Selected Letters, 194.
46. L. M. Alcott to the Lukens Sisters, Boston, 2 October 1874, in Selected Letters, 185.
47. Ibid., 185–86.
48. Dahlstrand, Amos Bronson Alcott, 315.
49. Anonymous, “The ‘Concord Authors,’” in A. B. Alcott, Autobiographical Collections, 1878–79, MS Am 1130.11(9), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
50. L. M. Alcott, “Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson,” in Bosco and Myerson, eds., Emerson, 90.
51. A. B. Alcott to Ellen A. Chandler, 27 July 1872, in Letters, 561.
52. A. B. Alcott, Concord Days, 3.
53. Ibid., 4.
54. Whitman, “A Backward Glance o’er Travel’d Roads,” in Complete Poetry, 671.
55. A. B. Alcott, Concord Days, 42.
56. Whitman, “So Long!” in Complete Poetry, 611.
57. A. B. Alcott, Concord Days, 83, 84, 86, 51.
58. Ibid., 271.
59. L. M. Alcott, November 1872, Journals, 183–84.
60. L. M. Alcott to Edwin Munroe Bacon, Concord, 14 July 1874, in Letters, 183.
61. L. M. Alcott, Work, 117.
62. Ibid., 21.
63. Ibid., 149.
64. Ibid., 101.
65. Ibid., 343.
66. L. M. Alcott to the Lukens Sisters, Concord, 4 September 1873, in Selected Letters, 176.
67. L. M. Alcott, Work, 86.
68. Ibid., 87.
69. L. M. Alcott, January 1874, Journals, 191.
70. L. M. Alcott, June, July, August 1875, Journals, 196.
71. L. M. Alcott, September and October 1875, Journals, 191.
72. L. M. Alcott to Samuel E. Sewall, 28 September 1875, in Selected Letters, 196.
73. L. M. Alcott, January 1874, Journals, 191.
74. Ibid.
75. A. B. Alcott, 9 April 1874, Journals, 448.
76. Ibid.
77. A. B. Alcott to F. E. Anderson, Concord, 8 April 1875, in Letters, 648. Alcott wrote “honory” for “honorary” and “suprising” for “surprising.”
78. L. M. Alcott. April 1873, Journals, 187.
79. L. M. Alcott, March 1874, Journals, 192.
80. Swayne, Story of Concord, 161.
81. L. M. Alcott, September 1876, Journals, 201.
82. L. M. Alcott, “Notes and Memoranda” 1876, Journals, 202.
83. L. M. Alcott, January 1877, Journals, 204.
84. Ibid.
85. Abigail May Alcott, Journal, 15 July 1877, bMS Am 1817.2(15), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
86. Ibid.; L. M. Alcott, September 1877, Journals, 205.
87. L. M. Alcott, October 1877, Journals, 205.
88. Ibid.
89. A. B. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, 8 October 1877, bMS Am 1817.2(15).
90. L. M. Alcott, October 1877, Journals, 206.
91. Stern, Louisa May Alcott, 263.
92. L. M. Alcott to Mrs. A. D. Moshier, 16 December 1877, in Selected Letters, 226.
93. L. M. Alcott, January 1878, Journals, 209.
94. A. B. Alcott, 10–14 June 1878, Journals, 490.
95. A. B. Alcott, 30 May 1878, Journals, 489.
96. A. B. Alcott, 29 May 1878, Journals, 488–89.
97. L. M. Alcott, November 1877, Jour
nals, 206.
98. L. M. Alcott, April 1878, Journals, 209.
99. A. B. Alcott, 24 November 1877, Journals, 480.
100. Anonymous, “The Concord Summer School of Philosophy,” in A. B. Alcott, Autobiographical Collections, 1878–79.
101. Anonymous, “Concord and its People,” in A. B. Alcott, Autobiographical Collections, 1878–79.
102. Anonymous, “The Science of Things,” in A. B. Alcott, Autobiographical Collections, 1878–79.
103. Ibid.
104. Ibid.
105. Anonymous, “Thoreau’s Thoughts,” in A. B. Alcott, Autobiographical Collections, 1878–79.
106. L. M. Alcott, August 1879, Journals, 216.
107. Ibid.
108. A. B. Alcott, 22 August 1879, Journals, 511.
109. A. B. Alcott, 29 November 1879, Journals, 514.
110. A. B. Alcott to May Alcott Nieriker, Concord, 27 November 1879, in Letters, 786.
111. L. M. Alcott, November 1879, Journals, 217.
112. L. M. Alcott, 31 December 1879, Journals, 218.
113. Ibid., 219.
114. A. Bronson Alcott, 31 January 1880, Journals, 515–16.
115. A. Bronson Alcott, “Love’s Morrow,” in Letters, 798.
116. Louisa May Alcott, “Our Madonna,” in Poetry, 37–38.
117. Bedell, Alcotts, 283.
118. L. M. Alcott to Lucy Stone, 1 October 1873, in Selected Letters, 178.
119. L. M. Alcott to The Woman’s Journal, 30 March 1880, in Selected Letters, 245–47.
120. L. M. Alcott, September 1880, Journals, 227.
121. A. B. Alcott, 15 May 1881, Journals, 523.
122. A. B. Alcott, 9 December 1881, Journals, 529.
123. A. B. Alcott, 17 September 1880, Journals, 527.
124. Ibid., 528.
125. L. M. Alcott, December 1881, Journals, 231.
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: “COME UP WITH ME”
1. L. M. Alcott, Moods, 225.
2. Ibid.
3. A. B. Alcott, “Observations on the Spiritual Nurture,” 204.
4. L. M. Alcott, Moods, 227.
5. Ibid., 257.
6. Ibid., 244.
7. Ibid., 272.
8. Ibid., 209.
9. L. M Alcott to Maria S. Porter, after 24 October 1882, in Selected Letters, 261.
10. A. B. Alcott, Sonnets, 131, 119, 113.
11. Ibid., 75.
12. Ibid., 77.
13. Ibid., 73.
14. Ibid., 39.
15. A. B. Alcott to William T. Harris, Concord, 20 May 1870, in Letters, 513.
16. A. B. Alcott, 25 January 1876, Journals, 465.
17. Stern, Louisa May Alcott, 288–89.
18. A. B. Alcott, 8 March 1882, Journals, 532.
19. A. B. Alcott, Sonnets, 39.
20. Ibid., 109; see also A. B. Alcott, 3–4 February 1882, Journals, 532.
21. A. B. Alcott, 13 April 1882, Journals, 533.
22. Emerson, “Spiritual Laws,” Essays, First Series, in Essays and Lectures, 321.
23. A. B. Alcott, 26 April 1882, Journals, 533.
24. L. M. Alcott, April 1882, Journals, 233–34.
25. A. B. Alcott, 26 April 1882, Journals, 533.
26. L. M. Alcott, 27 April 1882, Journals, 234.
27. L. M. Alcott, “Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson,” in Bosco and Myerson, eds., Emerson, 90.
28. L. M. Alcott, November 1882, Journals, 236.
29. L. M. Alcott to Laura Hosmer, 25 July 1882, in Selected Letters, 259.
30. L. M. Alcott, July 1882, Journals, 235.
31. A. B. Alcott, 29 July 1882, Journals, 535.
32. A. B. Alcott, 30 September 1882, Journals, 536.
33. A. B. Alcott, 17 September 1882, Journals, 536.
34. A. B. Alcott, 22 October 1882, Journals, 537.
35. L. M. Alcott, October 1882, Journals, 235.
36. L. M. Alcott to Maria S. Porter, after 24 October 1882, in Selected Letters, 261.
37. L. M. Alcott to Mary Preston Stearns, 4 November 1882, in Selected Letters, 262.
38. L. M. Alcott to Mary Preston Stearns, (fall 1883?), in Selected Letters, 273.
39. L. M. Alcott to Ednah Dow Cheney, 18 November 1882, in Selected Letters, 263.
40. L. M. Alcott, December 1882, Journals, 236.
41. Stern, Louisa May Alcott, 295.
42. L. M. Alcott to Mary Preston Stearns, 30 December 1882, in Selected Letters, 266.
43. L. M. Alcott to Mary Preston Stearns, 31 May (1883?), in Selected Letters, 270.
44. L. M. Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, 29 November 1885, in Selected Letters, 294–95.
45. L. M. Alcott to Maria S. Porter, October (?) 1882, in Selected Letters, 261.
46. L. M. Alcott, June 1883, Journals, 239.
47. L. M. Alcott to Elizabeth Wells, 9 October 1883, in Selected Letters, 273.
48. L. M. Alcott, September 1883, Journals, 240.
49. L. M. Alcott to Elizabeth Wells, 9 October 1883, in Selected Letters, 273.
50. L. M. Alcott, December 1884, Journals, 245.
51. L. M. Alcott, February 1885, Journals, 250.
52. L. M. Alcott, “To My Brain,” in Poetry, 44.
53. L. M. Alcott to Frank Carpenter, 1 April 1887, in Selected Letters, 307–8.
54. L. M. Alcott, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, 803.
55. Ibid., 856.
56. William James, “Address at the Centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson, May 25, 1903,” in Writings, 1123.
57. L. M. Alcott, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, 829.
58. Ibid., 834.
59. L. M. Alcott to Thomas Niles, June (?) 1886, in Selected Letters, 299.
60. L. M. Alcott to Thomas Niles, 3 October 1886, in Selected Letters, 300.
61. L. M. Alcott, Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys, 1063.
62. L. M. Alcott, 12 September 1886, Journals, 280.
63. L. M. Alcott to Florence Phillips, 20 October 1886, in Selected Letters, 302.
64. L. M. Alcott to Edward Bok, 16 June 1887, in Selected Letters, 313. Louisa’s count included a number of works that require some indulgence to be thought of as books, including reports of the Concord School Committee, and early writings for which Elizabeth Palmer Peabody deserved the lion’s share of the credit.
65. L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, 27 November 1887, in Selected Letters, 324n.
66. L. M. Alcott, 27 February 1888, Journals, 333.
67. Anna Alcott Pratt to Alfred Whitman, 17 February 1889 (?), cited in Stern, Louisa May Alcott, 330–31.
68. L. M. Alcott to Maria S. Porter, 4 March 1888, in Selected Letters, 337.
69. Ibid.
70. L. M. Alcott, “Free” (“Poems”), MS Am 1130.13(17), Houghton Library, Harvard University.
71. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Address to the Inhabitants of Concord at the Consecration of Sleepy Hollow, September 29, 1855,” in Miscellanies, 436.
72. Swayne, Story of Concord, 166; Anderson, World of Louisa May Alcott, 112.
73. L. M. Alcott to Maggie Lukens, 5 February 1884, in Selected Letters, 276.
74. Bedell, Alcotts, xv.
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