62.

34 Lydia Hosmer Wood, “Beth Alcott’s Playmate: A Glimpse of Concord Town in the Days of Little Women,” in Alcott in Her Own Time, p. 167; Frederick L. H. Willis, Alcott Memoirs, in Alcott in Her Own Time, p. 181.

35 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 65

36 Ibid., p. 69.

37 Ibid., p. 67.

38 Ibid.

39 Ibid., p. 73.

40 Ibid.

41 A. Bronson Alcott, Journals, p. 77.

42 A. Bronson Alcott, Letters, p. 798.

43 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 79.

44 Ibid., p. 85.

45 Ibid., p. 88.

46 Matteson, Eden’s Outcasts, p. 237.

47 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 89.

48 Ibid.

49 Ibid.

50 Louisa May Alcott, “To the Alcott Family,” 3 or 10 October 1858, Selected Letters, p. 34; Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 90.

51 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, 91.

52 Ibid, p. 85.

53 A. Bronson Alcott, “To Abigail May Alcott,” 4 December 1858, Letters, p. 282.

54 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 95.

55 Elizabeth Bancroft Schlesinger, “The Alcotts through Thirty Years: Letters to Alfred Whitman,” p. 364.

56 Louisa May Alcott, “To Alfred Whitman,” 6 January 1869, Selected Letters, p. 120.

57 Louisa May Alcott, “To Adeline May,” July [?] 1860, Selected Letters, p. 57.

58 Louisa May Alcott, “To Miss Holmes,” 16 August 1872 [?], Selected Letters, p. 167; Julian Hawthorne, [“Memories of the Alcott Family”], in Alcott in Her Own Time, p. 199.

59 Louisa May Alcott, Journals, p. 114.

60 Ibid., 117.

61 Louisa May Alcott.