Louisa May Alcott, her life, letters, and journals; . and one is forSt. Nicholas when it is done, — about the Kindergartenfor the blind. These with Lulus would make a littlebook, and might begin a series for small folks. Oldladies come to this twaddle when they can do nothingelse. What say you? . . Yours truly, L. M. A. September iS, 1S85. Dear Mr. Niles, — I send you some funny sketches byMrs. L. She seems to be getting on. How would it doto ask her to illustrate the fairy book ? She has a prettytaste in elves, and her little girl was good. I hope totouch up the other stories this winter, and


Louisa May Alcott, her life, letters, and journals; . and one is forSt. Nicholas when it is done, — about the Kindergartenfor the blind. These with Lulus would make a littlebook, and might begin a series for small folks. Oldladies come to this twaddle when they can do nothingelse. What say you? . . Yours truly, L. M. A. September iS, 1S85. Dear Mr. Niles, — I send you some funny sketches byMrs. L. She seems to be getting on. How would it doto ask her to illustrate the fairy book ? She has a prettytaste in elves, and her little girl was good. I hope totouch up the other stories this winter, and she can illus-trate, and next Christmas (or whenever it is ready) wecan have a little book out. This sort of work being all Idare do now, I may as well be clearing the decks foraction when the order comes to Up, and at em!again, if it ever does. I d like to help Mrs. L. if I could, as we know some-thing of her, and -I fancy she needs a lift. Perhaps wecould use these pictures in some way if she liked to have Facsimile of Miss Alcotts ^<


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