Eden's Outcasts (70 page)

48.
A. B. Alcott, Journal, 8 May 1852, in Shepard,
Pedlar's Progress,
445.

49.
Anonymous,
Semi-Weekly Eagle
(Brattleboro, Vt.), 18 March 1852.

50.
A. B. Alcott, 6 January 1850,
Journal
, 220.

51.
A. B. Alcott to Anna Bronson Alcott, Cincinnati, 22 November 1853, in
Letters
, 171.

52.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Cleveland, 11 December 1853, in
Letters
, 177.

53.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Medina, Ohio, 4 December 1853, in
Letters
, 177.

54.
L. M. Alcott, n.d. 1854,
Journals
, 71.

55.
A. B. Alcott to Anna Bronson Alcott, Cincinnati, 16 November 1853, in
Letters
, 171; A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Medina, Ohio, 4 December 1853, in
Letters
, 176; A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Syracuse, 18 December 1853, in
Letters
, 180.

56.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Syracuse, 15 January 1854, in
Letters
, 182, 183.

57.
A. B. Alcott, 9 February 1874,
Journals
, 446.

58.
Bedell,
Alcotts
, 332; Von Frank,
Trials
, 62–70.

59.
Wendell Phillips himself was not present; he was hard at work still trying to find some means of securing Burns's release.

60.
Among the most odious provisions of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law was that it authorized the payment of ten dollars to the commissioner who determined that a person brought before him was a fugitive, but only five dollars in a case where the detained person was set free.

61.
Stern, ed.,
L. M. Alcott
, 11.

62.
A. B. Alcott, 2 June 1854,
Journals
, 273.

63.
A. B. Alcott, 11–13 August 1854,
Journals
, 274.

64.
Thoreau,
Walden
, 261, 260.

65.
L. M. Alcott, n.d. 1854,
Journals
, 72; L. M. Alcott, 1 January 1855,
Journals
, 73. Louisa's journals report the earnings of
Flower Fables
in one place as thirty-two dollars, and thirty-five in another.

66.
L. M. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, 25 December 1854, in
Selected Letters
, 11.

67.
L. M. Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, 25 December 1854, in
Selected Letters
, 12–13.

68.
L. M. Alcott, June 1855,
Journals
, 75.

69.
A. B. Alcott, 3–8 September 1855,
Journals
, 276.

70.
The stories included “The Sisters' Trial,” “Bertha,” and “Genevieve.”

71.
L. M. Alcott, November 1855,
Journals
, 75.

72.
A. B. Alcott, 9 November 1855,
Journals
, 277.

73.
L. M. Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, 28 November 1855, in
Selected Letters
, 13–14.

74.
A. B. Alcott, 9 February 1866,
Journals
, 379.

75.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Walpole, N.H., 27 November 1855, in
Letters
, 190.

76.
Ibid.

77.
L. M. Alcott to Miss Seymour, 21 September 1856, in
Selected Letters
, 16.

78.
L. M. Alcott,
Moods
, 227.

79.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, 31 March 1856, in
Letters
, 191.

80.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. Anna Alcott, 5 August 1856, in
Letters
, 193.

81.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, 4 October 1856, in
Letters
, 198–99.

82.
Ibid., 198.

83.
L. M. Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, Boston, 29 November 1856, in
Selected Letters
, 26.

84.
Ibid.

85.
Shepard,
Pedlar's Progress,
446.

86.
A. B. Alcott, 4 October 1856,
Journals
, 286–87.

87.
A. B. Alcott, 9 November 1856,
Journals
, 288.

88.
A. B. Alcott, 10 November 1856,
Journals
, 290–91.

89.
Richardson,
Henry Thoreau
, 348–49.

90.
Euripides,
Medea
, 16.

91.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, 2 March 1857, in
Letters
, 234.

92.
A. B. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, New Haven, 13 March 1857, in
Letters
, 239.

93.
L. M. Alcott, June 1857,
Journals
, 85

94.
L. M. Alcott, July 1857,
Journals
, 85.

95.
Ibid.

96.
Ibid.

97.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Walpole, N.H., 3 August 1857, in
Letters
, 246.

98.
A. B. Alcott to Anna Alcott, Walpole, N.H., 28 August 1857, in
Letters
, 251.

99.
A. B. Alcott to Anna, Louisa, and May Alcott, Boston, 9 September 1857, in
Letters
, 252–53.

CHAPTER TEN: ORCHARD HOUSE

1.
Nathaniel Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, Leamington, England, 5 November 1857, in
Letters, 1857–1864
, 127–28.

2.
A. B. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, Buffalo, 14 December 1857, in
Letters
, 269.

3.
Alfred Whitman, “Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, Told by Laurie,” in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 106.

4.
Stern,
Louisa May Alcott
, 81–82.

5.
Whitman, “Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy,” 106.

6.
A. B. Alcott, 23 January 1858,
Journals
, 303.

7.
Ibid.
,
304.

8.
L. M. Alcott, 14 March 1858,
Journals
, 88.

9.
Ibid., 89.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Ibid.

12.
A. B. Alcott, 14 March 1858,
Journals
, 307.

13.
L. M. Alcott to Eliza Wells, Concord, 19 March 1858, in
Selected Letters
, 32.

14.
Ibid., 33.

15.
Ibid.

16.
L. M. Alcott, 14 March 1858,
Journals
, 89.

17.
L. M. Alcott, MS Am 1130.13(16), Houghton Library, Harvard University.

18.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1858, 14 March, MS Am 1130.12(28), p. 127, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

19.
A. B. Alcott, 16 March 1858,
Journals
, 307.

20.
L. M. Alcott, 14 March 1858,
Journals
, 88.

21.
A. B. Alcott, 4 April 1858,
Journals
, 307–8.

22.
A. B. Alcott, 18 September 1858,
Journals
, 309.

23.
L. M. Alcott, May 1858,
Journals
, 89.

24.
A. B. Alcott, 7 April 1858,
Journals
, 308.

25.
L. M. Alcott, May 1858,
Journals
, 89.

26.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 236.

27.
L. M. Alcott, May 1858,
Journals,
89.

28.
L. M. Alcott, July 1858,
Journals
, 90.

29.
L. M. Alcott,
Work
, 123.

30.
Ibid.
,
124.

31.
L. M. Alcott, October 1858,
Journals
, 90.

32.
Ibid., 90–91.

33.
L. M. Alcott to the Alcott Family, October 1858, in
Selected Letters
, 34–36.

34.
A. B. Alcott, 16 February 1858,
Journals
, 306.

35.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1858, 13 October, 346.

36.
A. B. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, Syracuse, 4 December 1858, in
Letters
, 282.

37.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1858, 1 November, 381. The entry reads, “Write to Louisa concerning her story for the Atlantic Monthly.” At that time, Louisa had not yet sent any of her work to
The Atlantic,
so Bronson's letter must have concerned the prospect of a future submission. In her journal for the month of November 1858, Louisa wrote, “I even think of trying the ‘Atlantic.' There's ambition for you.”
Journals
, 92.

38.
L. M. Alcott, November 1858,
Journals
, 92.

39.
Ibid.

40.
Anna Bronson Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, Apple-Slump, 7 December 1858, MS Am 1130.9(27), Houghton Library, Harvard University.

41.
A. B. Alcott to May Alcott, St. Louis, 2 January 1859, in
Letters
, 291.

42.
L. M. Alcott, November 1858,
Journals
, 91–92.

43.
Ibid., 91.

44.
L. M. Alcott, “Love and Self-Love,” in
Selected Fiction,
56–75.

45.
Ibid., 68.

46.
Anna Bronson Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, Apple-Slump, 7 December 1858.

47.
L. M. Alcott, November 1858,
Journals
, 92.

48.
A. B. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, Syracuse, 4 December 1858, in
Letters
, 283.

49.
Anna Bronson Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, Apple-Slump, 7 December 1858.

50.
A. B. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, Chicago, 27 December 1858, in
Letters
, 288.

51.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Chicago, 23 December 1858, in
Letters
, 286.

52.
Abigail May Alcott to A. Bronson Alcott, (Concord), 25 December 1858, MS Am 1130.9(27).

53.
Anna Bronson Alcott to Amos Bronson Alcott, (Concord), 26 December 1858, MS Am 1130.9(27).

54.
Ibid.

55.
A. B. Alcott to Louisa May Alcott, Cleveland, 7 February 1859, in
Letters
, 298.

56.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, St. Louis, 17 January 1859, in
Letters
, 294.

57.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Cincinnati, 30 January 1859, in
Letters
, 296.

58.
Ibid.

59.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Cleveland, 13 February 1859, in
Letters
, 299.

60.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, Cincinnati, 21 January 1859, in
Letters
, 295.

61.
A. B. Alcott, 4 March 1859,
Journals
, 314.

62.
Ibid., 313.

63.
L. M. Alcott, March 1859,
Journals
, 94.

64.
Walther,
Shattering,
63.

65.
Reynolds,
John Brown
, 144.

66.
A. B. Alcott, 8 May 1859,
Journals
, 315–16.

67.
Horace Traubel,
With Walt Whitman
, IV, 293.

68.
L. M. Alcott, September 1859,
Journals
, 95.

69.
A. Bronson Alcott, Diary for 1859, 23 October, MS Am 1130.12(29), p. 583, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

70.
A. Bronson Alcott, Diary for 1859, 8 May, 314.

71.
A. Bronson Alcott, Diary for 1859, 23 October, 583.

72.
L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman, Concord, 8 November 1859, in
Selected Letters
, 49.

73.
Ibid.

74.
A. Bronson Alcott, Diary for 1859, 23 October, 584.

75.
A. Bronson Alcott, Diary for 1859, 26 October, 591.

76.
A. Bronson Alcott, Diary for 1859, 19 November, 632–33.

77.
A. B. Alcott, 17 February 1860,
Journals
, 326.

78.
A. B. Alcott, 23 May 1860,
Journals
, 326.

79.
L. M. Alcott, May 1860,
Journals
, 99.

80.
Ibid.

81.
Ibid.

82.
Ibid.

83.
A. B. Alcott, 23 May 1860,
Journals
, 326.

84.
Julian Hawthorne, “By One Who Knew Her,” in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 206.

85.
L. M. Alcott to Adeline May, July 1860 (?), in
Selected Letters,
57.

86.
Julian Hawthorne, “By One Who Knew Her,” 205.

87.
Julian Hawthorne, “The Woman Who Wrote
Little Women,
” in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 193.

88.
Louisa May Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 281.

89.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. Anna Alcox, Concord, 30 December 1860, in
Letters
, 318.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: WAR

1.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1861, 1 January, MS Am 1130.12(31), p. 16, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

2.
L. M. Alcott, January 1861,
Journals
, 103.

3.
Ibid.

4.
L. M. Alcott, February 1861,
Journals
, 103.

5.
A. B. Alcott to May Alcott, Concord, 10 or 11 February 1861, in
Letters
, 320.

6.
Ibid.

7.
L. M. Alcott, February 1861,
Journals
, 104.

8.
Ibid.

9.
L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, Concord, 18 (?) March 1861, in
Letters
, 63.

10.
Thoreau to Daniel Ricketson, Concord, 22 March 1861, in
Correspondence
, 609.

11.
L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, Concord, 18 (?) March 1861, in
Letters
, 64n.

12.
Thoreau to Parker Pillsbury, Concord, 10 April 1861, in
Correspondence
, 611.

13.
Ralph Waldo Emerson to Arthur Hugh Clough, Concord, 16 April 1861, in
Letters
, IX, 45.

14.
Emerson,
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks
, XV, 172, 180.

15.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1861, 20–21 May, 440.

16.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1861, 26–30 April, 386.

17.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1861, 2 April, 357.

18.
L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman, Concord, 19 May 1861, in
Selected Letters
, 64.

19.
Saxton,
Louisa May
, 244.

20.
L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman, Concord, 19 May 1861, in
Selected Letters
, 64.

21.
Ibid., 65.

22.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1862, 6 January, MS Am 1130.12(32), p. 42, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

23.
L. M. Alcott, April 1862,
Journals
, 109.

24.
L. M. Alcott, April/May 1862,
Journals
, 109.

25.
L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman, 6 April 1862, in
Selected Letters
, 73.

26.
Anne Brown Adams, [Louisa May Alcott in the Early 1860s], in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 10.

27.
Gowing,
Alcotts,
68.

28.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1862, 39.

29.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1861, 2–3 May, 396.

30.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1862, 1 January, 6.

31.
Ibid.

32.
A. B. Alcott, 7 May 1862,
Journals
, 347.

33.
L. M. Alcott to Sophia Foord, Concord, 11 May 1862, in
Selected Letters
, 75.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Davis,
Rebecca Harding Davis,
38–40. Davis's antipathy to Bronson Alcott was so powerful that one hesitates to credit all the details of her account of him, some of which either run counter to the impression created by all other accounts or flatly contradict established evidence. For instance, describing the party mentioned in the text, she reports that Alcott dined heartily on a sirloin of beef—an alleged lapse in his vegetarian principles such as was never recorded elsewhere. Davis also maintains that, in building Emerson's summer cottage, Alcott neglected to include a door, an assertion that fails to account for the portal clearly represented in the one sketch of the structure.