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Letter from Louisa May Alcott to Hannah Stevenson, 26 December 1862

Letter from Louisa May Alcott to Hannah Stevenson, 26 December 1862

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    20 cm x 12.2 cm

    From the Curtis-Stevenson papers


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    [ This description is from the project: MHS 225th Anniversary ]

    In 1862-1863, Louisa May Alcott served briefly as an army nurse in Washington, an experience she would later use as material for her first literary success, Hospital Sketches. Alcott wrote this letter from Georgetown's Union Hotel Hospital to her friend Hannah Stevenson, candidly stating that she was "rather staggered" by what she had seen.