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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
, 288â89.
18.
A. B. Alcott, 8 March 1882,
Journals
, 532.
19.
A. B. Alcott,
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, 39.
20.
Ibid., 109; see also A. B. Alcott, 3â4 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
, 233â34.
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
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, 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,
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, 295.
42.
L. M. Alcott to Mary Preston Stearns, 30 December 1882, in
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, 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
, 294â95.
45.
L. M. Alcott to Maria S. Porter, October (?) 1882, in
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, 261.
46.
L. M. Alcott, June 1883,
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, 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
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, 44.
53.
L. M. Alcott to Frank Carpenter, 1 April 1887, in
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, 307â8.
54.
L. M. Alcott,
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55.
Ibid., 856.
56.
William James, “Address at the Centenary of Ralph Waldo Emerson, May 25, 1903,” in
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, 1123.
57.
L. M. Alcott,
Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys
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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
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, 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
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, 324n.
66.
L. M. Alcott, 27 February 1888,
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, 333.
67.
Anna Alcott Pratt to Alfred Whitman, 17 February 1889 (?), cited in Stern,
Louisa May Alcott
, 330â31.
68.
L. M. Alcott to Maria S. Porter, 4 March 1888, in
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, 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
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72.
Swayne,
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73.
L. M. Alcott to Maggie Lukens, 5 February 1884, in
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74.
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