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36.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. A. Bronson Alcott, 21 September 1862, in
Letters
, 330.

37.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women
,
Little Men, Jo's Boys
, 466.

38.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 55.

39.
Saxton,
Louisa May
, 251; Stern,
Louisa May Alcott
, 112.

40.
L. M. Alcott, December 1862,
Journals
, 110.

41.
Ibid.

42.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 56–61.

43.
Ibid.
,
62.

44.
Ibid.
,
66.

45.
Ropes,
Civil War Nurse
, 112.

46.
Rable,
Fredericksburg!,
177–84.

47.
Ibid., 238.

48.
Gowing,
Alcotts
, 21.

49.
Whitman,
Walt Whitman's Civil War
, 91.

50.
Morris,
Better Angel
, 143–44.

51.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 69.

52.
L. M. Alcott, December 1862,
Journals
, 111.

53.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 70.

54.
Ibid.
,
78.

55.
L. M. Alcott, 4 January 1863,
Journals
, 113–14.

56.
Ibid., 114.

57.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 97.

58.
L. M. Alcott, 4 January 1863,
Journals
, 115.

59.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 87.

60.
Ibid.
,
88.

61.
Ibid.
,
94.

62.
Ibid.
,
80, 77.

63.
Stern,
Louisa May Alcott
, 121.

64.
Hannah Ropes to Alice Shephard Ropes, Georgetown, 11 January 1863, in Ropes,
Civil War Nurse
, 121.

65.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 99.

66.
Ibid., 106.

67.
A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1863, 1 January, MS Am 1130.12(33), pp. 3–4, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

68.
A. B. Alcott, 8 January 1863,
Journals
, 352.

69.
Julian Hawthorne, “The Woman Who Wrote
Little Women,
” in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 195.

70.
Hannah Ropes to Edward Elson Ropes, Georgetown, 9 January 1863, in Ropes,
Civil War Nurse
, 121.

71.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 94.

72.
L. M. Alcott, January 1863,
Journals
, 116.

73.
L. M. Alcott,
Hospital Sketches
, 101.

74.
Ibid., 106–07.

75.
Ibid., 107.

76.
Ibid.

77.
Martha Saxton has written that there remained some hope that Louisa might still be able to continue her work. Saxton,
Louisa May
, 256.

78.
A. B. Alcott, 18 January 1863,
Journals
, 353.

79.
A. B. Alcott, 19 January 1863,
Journals
, 353.

80.
A. B. Alcott, 21 January 1863,
Journals
, 353.

81.
L. M. Alcott, December 1862,
Journals
, 110.

CHAPTER TWELVE: SHADOWS AND SUNLIGHT

1.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, n.d. (1863), MS Am 1130.9(28), Houghton Library, Harvard University.

2.
Sophia Hawthorne to Annie Fields, in Mellow,
Nathaniel Hawthorne
, 562.

3.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, n.d. (1863), MS Am 1130.9(28).

4.
A. B. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, Concord, 27 January 1863, in
Letters
, 333.

5.
A. B. Alcott, 1 February 1863,
Journals
, 354; A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1863, 11 February, MS Am 1130.12(33), p. 46, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

6.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, n.d. (1863), MS Am 1130.9(28).

7.
L. M. Alcott, January 1863,
Journals,
116–17.

8.
Ibid., 117.

9.
Ibid.

10.
A. Bronson Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, (Concord), 29 January 1863, in
Letters
, 334; L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 112n.

11.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, (?) February 1863, MS Am 1130.9(28).

12.
J. Hawthorne,
Memoirs
, 63.

13.
L. M. Alcott, February 1863,
Journals
, 117.

14.
Ibid.

15.
L. M. Alcott, March 1863,
Journals
, 118.

16.
Unidentified clipping in A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1863, 97.

17.
Unidentified clipping in A. B. Alcott, Diary for 1863, 67.

18.
A. B. Alcott, “The Transcendental Club and The Dial: A Conversation by A. Bronson Alcott,” 23 March 1863, Autobiographical Collections, 1856–67, MS Am 1130.11(6), p. 153, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

19.
L. M. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, 30 March 1863, in
Selected Letters
, 83.

20.
A. B. Alcott to Anna Alcott Pratt, Concord, 30 March 1863, in
Letters
, 337.

21.
L. M. Alcott, February 1863,
Journals
, 117.

22.
Abigail May Alcott to Samuel J. May, Concord, n.d. (1863), MS Am 1130.9(28).

23.
Elbert,
Hunger for Home
, 231.

24.
J. Hawthorne,
Memoirs
, 63.

25.
Ibid.

26.
L. M. Alcott, April 1863,
Journals,
118.

27.
A. B. Alcott to Mrs. Anna Alcox, 25 March 1863, in
Letters,
336.

28.
J. Hawthorne,
Memoirs,
63.

29.
L. M. Alcott, “Notes and Memoranda,” 1863,
Journals
, 122.

30.
L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 123n.

31.
A. B. Alcott to James Redpath, Concord, 19 November 1860, in
Letters
, 317.

32.
A. B. Alcott to James Redpath, Concord, 27 July 1863, in
Letters
, 345.

33.
L. M. Alcott to James Redpath, July (?) 1863, in
Selected Letters
, 87.

34.
L. M. Alcott,
Journals
, 124n.

35.
L. M. Alcott to Alfred Whitman, September 1863, in
Selected Letters
, 91.

36.
J. Hawthorne, “The Woman Who Wrote
Little Women
,” in Shealy, ed.,
Alcott
, 195–96.

37.
L. M. Alcott, May 1863,
Journals
, 119.

38.
A. B. Alcott, 26 August 1863,
Journals
, 357.

39.
L. M. Alcott, “My Contraband,” in
Alternative Alcott
, 93.

40.
Ibid., 86.

41.
L. M. Alcott to Miss Russel, 13 July 1863 (?), in
Selected Letters
, 85.

42.
L. M. Alcott, October 1863,
Journals
, 121.

43.
L. M. Alcott to James Redpath, February 1864 (?), in
Selected Letters
, 103.

44.
A. B. Alcott, 28 February 1864,
Journals
, 362.

45.
L. M. Alcott, May 1864,
Journals
, 130.

46.
A. B. Alcott, 23 May 1864,
Journals
, 364.

47.
Ibid.

48.
Saxton,
Louisa May
, 233–34, 272.

49.
L. M. Alcott, September 1864,
Journals
, 131.

50.
A. K. Loring to Louisa May Alcott, n.d., MSS 6255, Papers of Louisa May Alcott, University of Virginia Special Collections.

51.
L. M. Alcott, October 1864,
Journals
, 132.

52.
L. M. Alcott to Abigail May Alcott, 25 December 1864, in
Selected Letters
, 106.

53.
For instance, she had written in her journal in April 1864, “Don't despair, ‘Moods,' we'll try again by & by.” She later added, “Alas, we did try again.”
Journals
, 129, 135n.

54.
L. M. Alcott, December 1864,
Journals
, 133.

55.
Emerson, “Experience,” in
Essays and Lectures
, 473; L. M. Alcott,
Moods
, 1.

56.
L. M. Alcott,
Moods
, 84.

57.
Ibid., 190.

58.
Ibid.
,
237, 37.

59.
Ibid., 146.

60.
Ibid.
,
25.

61.
Ibid.
,
24.

62.
Ibid.
,
24, 22.

63.
Ibid.
,
179.

64.
Jamison,
Touched with Fire
, 5, 88.

65.
Madeleine Stern, telephone conversation with author, 27 August 2006.

66.
Kay Redfield Jamison, e-mail message to author, 26 August 2006.

67.
Emerson, “History,” in
Essays and Lectures
, 237.

68.
Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” in
Essays and Lectures
, 259.

69.
Alice James,
Diary
, 71.

70.
A. B. Alcott, 26 December 1864,
Journals
, 367–68.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: JOURNEYS EAST AND WEST

1.
A. B. Alcott, 15 April 1865,
Journals
, 371.

2.
L. M. Alcott, April 1865,
Journals
, 140.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Stern,
Louisa May Alcott
, 142.

5.
A. B. Alcott, 29 July 1865,
Journals
, 374.

6.
A. B. Alcott, 4 July 1865,
Journals
, 372.

7.
Whitman, “The United States to Old World Critics,” in
Complete Poetry
, 628.

8.
A. B. Alcott, 13 April 1865,
Journals
, 371.

9.
L. M. Alcott,
Work
, 75.

10.
L. M. Alcott, July 1865,
Journals
, 141.

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