ALS signed “L. M. Alcott,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, July 17, no year. Letter to Mrs. Lamb, in full: “I shall be glad to see you on either Sat. & hope the day will be fine so that I can meet you at the station & show you the places of interest in Concord. I do not know about the trains that leave Boston & stop at Cambridge, but the daily papers will tell you if I fail to learn from our station master, & add the hours to my letter on its way to the mail. I think the train that leaves Boston at 2–20 p.m. is sure to stop at Cambridge 15 minutes later, & that brings you to C. at 3–30. A train that leaves B. at 11–15 & reaches here at 12–15 stops I think at Cambridge. Father is deep in the School of Philosophy just started but will, I hope, be able to see you.” In fine condition. Growing up in Concord under the intellectual eyes of her Transcendentalist parents, Alcott spent her childhood among the movement’s greatest figures—reading in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s library, studying botany with Thoreau along the banks of Walden Pond—making her the ideal guide for a tour of “the places of interest in Concord.” Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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