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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Louisa May Alcott letter to Miss Chandler, approximately 1877 September

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: Vault MSS 503 Series 1 Sub-Series 1 Item 9
Scope and Contents

Contains a letter from Louisa May Alcott to a Miss Chandler. Alcott expresses her inability to leave her ill mother. The Alcotts are hurrying to shut the house for the winter; they are going to stay at the Thoreau house, which Anna has just purchased. Typescript included. Undated, labeled only "Wed a.m." but approximately September 1877.

Dates: approximately 1877 September
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Vault MSS 503, Collection on Louisa May Alcott and family / Louisa May Alcott papers / Louisa May Alcott letters

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