Eden's Outcasts (67 page)

6.
Emerson,
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
, V, 382.

7.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller, Concord, 15 April 1840, in
Letters
, II, 281.

8.
A. B. Alcott to Samuel May, Concord, 6 April 1840, in
Letters
, 47.

9.
Anna Alcott, Diary, in Dahlstrand,
Amos Bronson Alcott
, 181.

10.
L. M. Alcott,
Moods
, 36.

11.
Thoreau,
A Week on the Concord
, 222.

12.
Thoreau,
Journal, 1837–1844
, 164, 172, 171, 168.

13.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Concord, 29 November 1840, in
Letters
, 54.

14.
Emerson, “Education,” in
Early Lectures
, III, 295–96.

15.
A. B. Alcott to Samuel May, Concord, 29 July 1840, in
Letters
, 51.

16.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. Anna Alcott, Concord, 21 June 1840, in
Letters
, 48.

17.
Bedell,
Alcotts
, 150.

18.
Shepard,
Pedlar's Progress
, 294.

19.
Emerson,
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson
, V, 380.

20.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller, Concord, 15 April 1840, in
Letters
, II, 281.

21.
Henry James Sr., “Women and the ‘Woman's Movement,'” quoted in Strouse,
Alice James
, 45.

22.
Strouse,
Alice James
, 13.

23.
(R. W. Emerson and Margaret Fuller), “The Editors to the Reader,”
The Dial
1 (1840), 1.

24.
Dahlstrand,
Amos Bronson Alcott
, 182.

25.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller, Concord, 8 May 1840, in
Letters
, II, 294.

26.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, 24 January 1841, MS Am 1130.9(25), Houghton Library, Harvard University.

27.
A. B. Alcott, “Orphic Sayings,”
The Dial
1 (1840), 86.

28.
A. B. Alcott, “Orphic Sayings,”
The Dial
1 (1841), 357.

29.
A. B. Alcott, “Orphic Sayings,”
The Dial
1 (1840), 87.

30.
Ibid., 93.

31.
William Emerson to Ralph Waldo Emerson (?), 28 August 1840, in R. W. Emerson,
Letters,
II, 312n.

32.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle, Concord, 30 August 1840, in
Selected Letters
, 224.

33.
Emerson,
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
, VIII, 181.

34.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Concord, 21 June 1840, in
Letters
, 49.

35.
A. B. Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, 29 July 1840, in
Letters
, 51.

36.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel May, November 1840, in Barton,
Transcendental Wife
, 71.

37.
Bedell,
Alcotts
, 162, 234.

38.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, 24 January 1841, MS Am 1130.9(25).

39.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller, Concord, 16 August 1840, in
Letters
, II, 323.

40.
Sanborn,
Bronson Alcott
, 12.

41.
Ibid.
,
11.

42.
Richardson,
Emerson
, 359.

43.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Margaret Fuller, Concord, 28 January 1842, in
Selected Letters
, 263.

44.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, 18 January 1842, in Elbert,
Hunger for Home
, 45.

45.
Dahlstrand,
Amos Bronson Alcott
, 187.

46.
Richardson,
Emerson
, 363.

47.
Emerson,
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
, VIII, 210–15.

48.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle, Concord, 31 March 1842, in Emerson and Carlyle,
Correspondence
, 320.

49.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Ship Rosalind, English Channel, 31 May 1842, in
Letters
, 65–66.

50.
Ibid.
,
67.

51.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Ham Common, 12 June 1842, in
Letters
, 69.

52.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, London, 17 June 1842, in
Letters
, 72.

53.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Ham Common, 12 June 1842, in
Letters
, 69.

54.
Ibid., 69–71.

55.
Thomas Carlyle to Ralph Waldo Emerson, London, 29 August 1842, in Emerson and Carlyle,
Correspondence
, 329.

56.
A. B. Alcott to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ham Common, 2 July 1842, in
Letters
, 81.

57.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Ham Common, 16 July 1842, in
Letters
, 85.

58.
Thomas Carlyle to Ralph Waldo Emerson, London, 19 July 1842, in Emerson and Carlyle,
Correspondence
, 326.

59.
Robert Browning to Alfred Donnett, 30 September 1842, in Emerson and Carlyle,
Correspondence
, 329n.

60.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 7 May 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals,
142.

61.
Bedell,
Alcotts
, 190–91.

62.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, 31 May 1842, in
Letters
, 65, 67.

63.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, 17 June and 31 May 1842, in
Letters
, 73, 67.

64.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, 31 May 1842, in
Letters
, 67.

65.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 8 July 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 143.

66.
Bedell,
Alcotts
, 193.

67.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 8 July 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 143.

68.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 22 May 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 142–43.

69.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 21 July 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 144.

70.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 9 May 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 142.

71.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 26 July 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 145.

72.
Ibid.

73.
A. B. Alcott to Junius S. Alcott, Ham Common, 30 June 1842, in
Letters
, 74.

74.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Ham Common, 16 August 1842, in
Letters
, 89–90.

75.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 4 September 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 146–47.

76.
A. B. Alcott, to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Ham Common, 16 August 1842, in
Letters
, 90.

77.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 16 September 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 147.

78.
Thomas Carlyle to Ralph Waldo Emerson, London, 11 March 1843, in Emerson and Carlyle,
Correspondence
, 338.

79.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 21 and 23 October 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 148.

80.
Sanborn,
Bronson Alcott,
26.

81.
Ibid.

82.
Charles Lane to William Oldham, 30 November 1842, in Bedell,
Alcotts
, 195.

83.
Emerson,
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
, VIII, 404.

84.
Ibid., 367.

85.
Sanborn,
Bronson Alcott,
43–44.

86.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 29 November 1842, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 148–49.

87.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Concord, 29 November 1842, in
Letters
, 93.

88.
A. B. Alcott to Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, and May Alcott, Concord, 1 February 1843, in
Letters
, 96–97.

89.
Bedell,
Alcotts,
202.

90.
Emerson,
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
, VIII, 310.

91.
Ibid., 301.

92.
Charles Lane to William Oldham, Concord, 31 May 1843, in Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 14.

93.
Ibid., 15.

CHAPTER FIVE: THE SOWING OF THE SEEDS

1.
L. M. Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” in Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 147.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 1 June 1843, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 152–53.

4.
Charles Lane to William Oldham, Fruitlands, 28 June 1843, in Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 26.

5.
L. M. Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” 152.

6.
Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 59.

7.
Abigail May Alcott, Journal Entry for 1 June 1843, in A. B. Alcott,
Journals
, 153.

8.
Ibid.

9.
A. B. Alcott and Charles Lane, “Intelligence,”
The Dial
4 (1843), 135.

10.
L. M. Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” 156.

11.
L. M. Alcott, 1 September 1843,
Journals
, 45.

12.
Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 76.

13.
Ibid.
,
43.

14.
L. M. Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” 154.

15.
Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 47–48.

16.
L. M. Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” 158–59.

17.
Charles Lane and A. B. Alcott to A. Brooke, Fruitlands, n.d., in Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 50.

18.
L. M. Alcott, “Transcendental Wild Oats,” 157.

19.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Fourierism and the Socialists,”
The Dial
3 (1842), 87.

20.
Charles Lane to William Oldham, 30 July 1843, in Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 31–32.

21.
Charles Lane and A. B. Alcott to A. Brooke, in Sears, comp.,
Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands
, 51.

22.
Thoreau,
Walden
, 197–201.

23.
L. M. Alcott to Sophia Gardner, Concord, 23 September 1845, in
Selected Letters
, 4.