Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . theGospels (2 vols., Boston, 1836); Tablets(1868); Concord Days (1872); Table-Talk (1877); Sonnets and Canzonets(1882); and The New Connecticut, an auto-biographical poem, edited by Franklin B. San-born (Boston, 1887). His daughter, LOUISA MAY, author, born inGermantown, Pa., Nov. 29, 1832; died inBoston, Mass., March 6, 1888, was educated byher father. Her
Appleton's annual cyclopedia and register of important events: embracing political, military, an ecclesiastical affairs; public documents; biography, statistics, commerce, finance, literature, science, agriculture, and mechanical industry . theGospels (2 vols., Boston, 1836); Tablets(1868); Concord Days (1872); Table-Talk (1877); Sonnets and Canzonets(1882); and The New Connecticut, an auto-biographical poem, edited by Franklin B. San-born (Boston, 1887). His daughter, LOUISA MAY, author, born inGermantown, Pa., Nov. 29, 1832; died inBoston, Mass., March 6, 1888, was educated byher father. Her first literary attempt, AnAddress to a Robin, was made at the age ofeight, and she soon began to write stories. In1848 she wrote her first book, Flower-Fables,for Ellen Emerson, but this made no impres-sion on its publication in 1855. In 1851 she 12 ALOOTT, LOUISA MAY. ANGLICAN CHURCHES. published in Gleasons Pictorial a romanticstory, for which she received five dollars. never achieved worldly success, and, asthe family were in straitened circumstancesabout this time, she engaged in teaching iuBoston, where she took a little trunk filledwith the plainest clothes of her own makingand twenty dollars that she had earned in. LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. writing. At one time she aspired to becomean actress, and had perfected her arrangementsfor a first appearance, but was prevented byher friends. She occasionally appeared inamateur performances, and wrote a farce en-titled Ned Batchelders Adventures, whichwas produced at the Howard Athenaeum. Shealso wrote a romantic drama, The EivalPrima Donna, the manuscript of which sherecalled and destroyed on hearing of dissensionamong the actors regarding the arrangementof the cast. In December, 1862, she enteredinto Government service as a hospital nurse,and was stationed in the Georgetown Hospital,near Washington, D. C, until prostrated bytyphoid fever, from the effects of which shenever recovered. In 1865 she visited Europeas a traveling-
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