Alcott-Nieriker-Pratt family correspondence, [1856]-1912.

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Alcott-Nieriker-Pratt family correspondence, [1856]-1912.

Correspondence includes four letters and five poems from Louisa May Alcott to various correspondents, [1856]-1885; four letters from Abigail May Alcott to several correspondents, [1862]-1872, including two ALS to Mrs. [Cynthia] Thoreau; two ALS from May Alcott Nieriker to her mother, 1877; three ALS (two partial only) from Ernest Nieriker, 1879-[1880]; three letters (one typed transcript, two original ALS) from Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt, 1871-[1889], one of them to her son Frederic Alcott Pratt and his family, one to Frederic alone; two ALS to Frederic Alcott Pratt, 1889 (one from John Sewall Pratt (Alcott) ), and one TLS from F. Alcott Pratt to Allen French, 1900 (poem enclosed); one ALS (invitation to opening of "The Alcott House" from Carrie M. Hoyle--Secretary of the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association--to Bronson Alcott Pratt), 1912.

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Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

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Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known as the for her novel Little Women (1868) and the sequels Little Men (1871) and Jo's Boys (1886). Born in Germantown (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of transcendentalist and educator Amos Bronson Alcott and social worker Abby May. Like her famous literary counterpart, Jo March, she was the second of four daughters. The eldest, Anna Bronson (Al...

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...

Pratt, Frederic Alcott, 1863-1910

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Pratt was the nephew of the writer Louisa May Alcott and the son of her sister Anna Bronson Alcott Pratt. Under Louisa May Alcott's will, he became the Trustee of her literary estate after her death in 1888. ...

Nieriker (Family)

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Abigail May Alcott was living in London and studying landscape art when she met Ernest Nieriker. The couple married on March 22, 1878, in London. The marriage was said by authors Eiselein and Phillips to have occurred despite her family's reluctance. In contrast, Louisa Alcott called the day a "happy event" and described Ernest as a handsome, cultivated and successful "tender friend". Further, "May is old enough to choose for herself, and seems so happy in the new relation that we have nothing t...

Nieriker, Ernest, 1856-1935

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Abigail May Alcott was living in London and studying landscape art when she met Ernest Nieriker. The couple married on March 22, 1878, in London. The marriage was said by authors Eiselein and Phillips to have occurred despite her family's reluctance. In contrast, Louisa Alcott called the day a "happy event" and described Ernest as a handsome, cultivated and successful "tender friend". Further, "May is old enough to choose for herself, and seems so happy in the new relation that we have nothing t...

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...

French, Allen, 1870-1946

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Allen French (1870-1946), Concord (Mass.) author, historian, and antiquarian, was Chairman of the Concord Free Public Library Committee and President of the Concord Antiquarian Society in 1933-1934. Library expansion / renovation at that time drew his attention to the question of transferring the Adams Tolman Collection of Native American artifacts, deposited in the Library in 1921 by Mrs. Adams Tolman, to the Concord Antiquarian Society. (Tolman, 1862-1920, had been an antiquarian,...

Hoyle, Carrie Morse, 1855-1928

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Pratt, Bronson Alcott, 1889-1943

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Pratt family

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Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association

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Thoreau, Cynthia D. (Cynthia Dunbar), 1787-1872

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