Alcott family additional papers, 1820-1886.

Wilkinson, Alfred

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Spofford, Ainsworth Rand, 1825-1908

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Ainsworth Rand Spofford (September 12, 1825 – August 11, 1908) was an American journalist and the sixth Librarian of Congress. Spofford was born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Ill health prevented him from attending Amherst College. He instead, at age 19, moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he became a bookseller, publisher, and newspaper man. In 1849 Spofford founded the Literary Club of Cincinnati with John Celivergos Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge) and 9 others founded. One year later Ruthe...

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803, Boston, Massachusetts– April 27, 1882, Concord, Massachusetts), American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.Epithet: American essayist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000621.0x000365 ...

Alcott, John Sewall Pratt, 1865-1923

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John Sewall Pratt Alcott (1865-1923) was the nephew and adopted son of Louisa May Alcott. John Sewall Pratt Alcott was born on June 24, 1865, in Massachusetts, to John Bridge Pratt and Anna Bronson Alcott, sister of Louisa May Alcott. He and his brother, Fredrick, were the basis for Daisy and Demi (respectively) in Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women. His aunt legally adopted him in 1888, making him her heir, shortly before her death. He changed his name to "John Alcott" in deference to he...

Alcott, Abigail May, 1800-1877

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Abigail "Abba" Alcott (née May; October 8, 1800 – November 25, 1877) was an American activist for several causes and one of the first paid social workers in the state of Massachusetts. She was the wife of Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott and mother of four daughters, including Civil War novelist Louisa May Alcott. Abigail May came from a prominent New England family. On her mother's side, she was born into the families of Sewall and Quincy. Her mother, Dorothy Sewall, was the great-grand...

Nieriker, Abigail May Alcott, 1840-1879

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Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (July 26, 1840 – December 29, 1879) was an American artist and the youngest sister of Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Amy (an anagram of May) in her sister's semi-autobiographical novel Little Women (1868). She was named after her mother, Abigail May, and first called Abba, then Abby, and finally May, which she asked to be called in November 1863 when in her twenties. Abigail May Alcott was born July 26, 1840, in Concord, Massachusetts, the y...

Pratt, Anna Bronson Alcott, 1831-1893

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Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (March 16, 1831 – July 17, 1893) was the elder sister of American novelist Louisa May Alcott. She was the basis for the character Margaret "Meg" of Little Women (1868), her sister's classic, semi-autobiographical novel. Anna Bronson Alcott was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia on March 16, 1831. She was the first of four daughters born to Amos Bronson Alcott and Abby May. She was named after both her paternal grandmother (Anna) and her father (Brons...

Alcott, A. Bronson (Amos Bronson), 1799-1888

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Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a plant-based diet. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights. Born in Wolcott, Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling bef...

Alcott family (Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888)

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Part of the family papers of the Alcott family of Concord (Mass.). Parents were Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), the New England transcendentalist, and Abigail [Abba] May Alcott (1800-1877). Their four daughters were: Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt (1831-1893) [who married John Bridge Pratt (1833-1870)], the writer Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), Elizabeth Sewall [Lizzie] Alcott (1835-1858), and Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (1840-1879), an American artist [who married Ernest Nieriker (1856-1935)]. Chil...

Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress was established by an act of Congress in 1800 when President John Adams signed a bill providing for the transfer of the seat of government from Philadelphia to the new capital city of Washington. The legislation described a reference library for Congress only, containing "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress - and for putting up a suitable apartment for containing them therein…" The original library was housed in the Washington, DC until August 1814, ...

Veen, Otto ˜vanœ 1556-1629

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U.S. Internal revenue service.

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Amateur Dramatic Company. Broadside

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Merrill, Frank T., 1848-

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Artist and illustrator born at Boston, Mass., in 1848. Illustrated editions of works by L.M. Alcott, Twain, Hale, Longfellow, Reade, Shelley and Keats, Dumas, George Eliot, and others. The copyright 1880 edition of Louisa May Alcott's Little women for which these drawings were prepared was published by Roberts Brothers at Boston (see Ullom, Louisa May Alcott ... an annotated, selected bibliography, Washington: Library of Congress, 1969, no. 26, p. 19). From the description of Drawing...

Roberts Brothers. Boston.

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Louisa Wells

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Florence Phillips.

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Thompson, Elizabeth

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Epithet: wife of J Thompson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0000ac Epithet: widow of Maurice, 2nd Baron Haversham British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001344.0x0000ab ...

Emerson, Edward Waldo, 1844-1930

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Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

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Robbins, Eleizor

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Pratt, Frederick A., 1828-1880

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Joseph, May

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Lynn

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Angell, George T. (George Thorndike), 1823-1909

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American philanthropist. From the description of Typed letter signed : Boston, to Mr. Wells, 1892 Mar. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874876 ...

Hatch, Rufus

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May, Joseph

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Sewall, Samuel E. (Samuel Edmund), 1799-1888

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Emery, Samuel Hopkins, 1815-1901

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Clergyman. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Quincy, Illinois, to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1863 Oct. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270614371 ...

Concord school of philosophy

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Educational institution. The Concord Summer School of Philosophy was founded in 1879. It offered lectures on a variety of subjects over the course of several weeks. Officers included A. Bronson Alcott, F. B. Sanborn and S. H. Emery. From the description of Concord School of Philosophy Collection, 1824-1903. (Boston College). WorldCat record id: 35823601 ...

Ward (S. G. & G. C.)

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