Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands: Compiled by Clara Endicott Sears With Transcendental Wild Oats (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Bronson Alcott's Fruitlands: Compiled by Clara Endicott Sears With Transcendental Wild Oats

I desire to express my thanks to Mr. John S. Pratt Alcott, of Brookline; Mr. F. B. Sanborn, of Concord; Dr. Joseph Wiswall Palmer, of Fitchburg; and Mr. Alvin Holman, of Leominster, for facts and data concerning the Consociate Family at Fruitlands, and for their assistance in collecting and acquiring the greater part of the original furniture which was there in the days of the Community.

And I further thank Mr. John S. Pratt Alcott for the privilege of including Louisa's and Anna's Diaries at Fruitlands, and Mr. Alcott and Messrs. Little, Brown & Company for the use of Louisa M. Alcott's Transcendental Wild Oats.

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