. Old Concord. f young men and women ontheir way. Those who had never heard his nameknew his message; and the present generationis the wiser and happier for the spread of hisspoken and written word. In America, but not inAmerica alone, he stands unique in his in the spring of 1882 he died, not his townonly, but the whole world, mourned. The constancy of Emerson to his ancestral townis in contrast to the goings and comings of Alcott,at least for a number of years after he first fre-quented Concord. The prospect of Emersonsneighborhood brought him to the town, wherefirst, before h
. Old Concord. f young men and women ontheir way. Those who had never heard his nameknew his message; and the present generationis the wiser and happier for the spread of hisspoken and written word. In America, but not inAmerica alone, he stands unique in his in the spring of 1882 he died, not his townonly, but the whole world, mourned. The constancy of Emerson to his ancestral townis in contrast to the goings and comings of Alcott,at least for a number of years after he first fre-quented Concord. The prospect of Emersonsneighborhood brought him to the town, wherefirst, before his unfortunate Fruitlands venture,he lived in the Cottage, sometimes called theHosmer Cottage, on Main Street beyond the rail-road bridge. The place, though small, was com-plete with its numerous little rooms, its barn andsheds. Except for the disappearance of the barn,and the addition of a mansard roof, it looks thesame to-day, modestly brown, unobtrusive, andcomfortable. In this house were written many of [4]. The Alcoa Cottage {1840-1842) on Main Street thF >UBUC LIBRARY MT«ft, tEWOXt„^k. FOUNDATION^ Chiefly Literary the charming early letters of Alcott to his children,which, some of them in facsimile to show his draw-ings or his lettering, have lately been published insuch attractive form. And from this house Alcottstarted on his journey to England, turning at thedoor to say to his wife that he might have forgottento pay for his new suit of clothes, which, however,she would attend to, of course. And the patient woman was wondering how shecould feed her family until his return ! The result of his journey was the unlucky Fruit-lands experiment, which sent the Alcotts back toConcord at the very lowest point of their coming of a legacy, however, with some helpfrom Emerson, enabled them to buy the housewhich Alcott named Hillside, now known asHawthornes Wayside. A mean-looking af-fair the house was when bought, but Alcott im-mediately enlarged and improved it.
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