Eden's Outcasts (73 page)

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,
Journals
, 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.