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Jack and Jill manuscript fragment, 1880

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Identifier: Vault MSS 503 Series 1 Sub-Series 2 Item 5
Scope and Contents Contains one leaf of ink holograph manuscript, unsigned, from the text of Alcott's novel Jack and Jill. Two pages, quarto, on ruled paper. Numbered "7" at upper right, it is from chapter 1, "The Catastrophe." It contains four corrections in the author's hand which were incorporated into the published version. There are, however, a number of minor differences between this manuscript and published version and the major omission of an entire sentence --"Jill, of course, was not her real name,...
Dates: 1880