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An Alcott story's surprise ending A school principal fulfills author's wish when he sells lost tale for millions

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19950912
Author:M.R. Montgomery, Globe Staff

This is a story about a person being handed, practically on a silver platter, a few million bucks for a book manuscript. The odd part is that the person then proceeded to give away most of it to good causes. Not your average publishing saga, this one.

Several months ago, when the world was slightly younger and less complicated, The New Yorker magazine's Talk of the Town wondered in print how a 47-year-old private school headmaster in nethermost New Hampshire came to own an unpublished Gothic novel written by Louisa May Alcott ("Little Women," "Little Men," etc.).

Wondering never ceases, and ...

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