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Hotel Victoria Boston Miss Exum, Nancy [+] Elizabeth Clement 16 S French Broad Ave Asheville N.C.

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Hotel Victoria Boston Thomas O Paige. Manager

Sept 20, 1912

Dear Little Women at home;

I guess by now you have my Concord card but can you realize that yesterday I really rummaged all through the Orchard House. The home of the "Little Women." Touched Beth's little piano. There is little of the old original furniture but in the little study is a cabinet and in the cabinet are some of the things that are mentioned in the book. The curtain bell, the [???] old they wore when [giving] their plays. Miss Alcott's civil war needle-book

Hotel Victoria Boston Thomas O. Paige Manager

May Allcott's (who was Amy) paint box and many of her models a [bust?] of her [father?] by herself I was in Louisa M Alcotts room and saw her pitiful little old desk. And where out and saw the old willow under which she used to write. I feel like I have touched one of the Holy of Holies in my life one of the beautiful influences that had made me dare to be a woman and I thought of their struggles and ours and how they (The Little Women) had helped us over some of the hard places

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Had made us laugh when we wanted to cry. How we had enjoyed their good times and cried over their sorrows and I wanted to kneel down and say my prayer and thank God that such as they had lived and died. And left such a beautiful influences and I must tell you I saw the [Door- Col?] where Meg who was Mrs John Pratt first went to housekeeping. Then the later home of Miss Alcott and where she wrote "Little Men." All the others she wrote at The Orchard House. There I went to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and stood at the graves of the Alcott girls and their mother and father