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Louisa May Alcott's Last Week: A Valedictory Letter.(Critical Essay)(Brief Article)

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From: ANQ
Date: 20000101
Author:SCHARNHORST, GARY; SMITH, ANDREW

As a vice president for the beneficent society of the New England Conservatory of Music ("Bright"), Louisa May Alcott was invited months in advance to participate in a reading to be held in Boston in November 1888. In failing health, however, Alcott declined the invitation in a fetter, hitherto lost to scholarship, written only six days before her death and printed in the Boston Herald, November 9, 1888:

   Dear Miss Ellis:(1) I regret that it will be impossible for me to take any 
   part in your entertainment, as you will see when I tell you that I am just 
   out of my bed, ...

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