Amos Bronson Alcott

The letters, are chiefly from the Alcott-Pratt collection of the Harvard College Library.

The Letters of A. Bronson Alcott

The words of six- to ten-year-olds on spirit, consciousness, love, humility, conscience, the Holy Ghost and 'the knower'.

Conversations with Children on the Gospels

How Like an Angel Came I Down

Observations on the Principles and Methods of Infant Instruction

Tablets

"This edition of Conversations with children on the Gospels, conducted and edited by A. Bronson Alcott is an edited and abridged version of the text first published in two volumes by James Monroe and Company of Boston in 1836 and 1837"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-336).

Concord Days

Come again into my study, having sat some time for greater comfort in the sunnier east room by an open fire, as needful in our climate, almost, as in that of changeable England. Busy days these last, with a little something to show for them. After all, I am here most at home, and myself surrounded by friendly pictures and books, free to follow the mood of the moment,—read, write, recreate. I wish more came of it all. Here are these voluminous diaries, showy seen from without, with far too little of life transcribed within. Was it the accident of being shown, when a boy, in the old oaken cabinet, my mother's little journal, that set me out in this chase of myself, continued almost uninterruptedly, and now fixed by habit as a part of the day, like the rising and setting of the sun?

Charles Lane

Ce n'est pas un hasard si le livre le plus marquant de H. D. Thoreau, Walden, est sous-titré "La vie dans les bois". Il rendait ainsi un discret hommage à son ami Charles Lane qui venait de publier un essai sous ce titre. Dans ce texte, Lane prône un retour à une vie naturelle et n'hésite pas à opposer la sagesse des Indiens, en harmonie avec leur environnement, à la cupidité et la folie des hommes civilisés. Mais son ambition est plus vaste, il cherche à montrer, à travers.le récit de ses expériences au sein de fermes communautaires fouriéristes, que l'on peut vivre autrement, en respectant la nature, en mutualisant le travail et en n'ayant de cesse de s'instruire.

La vie dans les bois

Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875 is a volume of transcripts of conversations conducted by the nineteenth-century American philosopher and educator A. Bronson Alcott at various locations in New England and the Midwest. The transcripts have been created from unpublished manuscripts in the Alcott collection at Harvard University and Concord Free Library, as well as published contemporary articles in The Radical, New York Daily Tribune, and The Chicago Tribune. Gathered in this volume, Alcott's transcripts vividly reflect American intellectual concerns from the years preceding the Civil War through the beginning of the Gilded Age.

Amos Bronson Alcott

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