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...York Times published a front page article yesterday claiming that a copy of Alcott's first novel, The Inheritance, had been found in Houghton library after being miscatalogued "a generation...
Despite the University's claims, however, Alcott family descendents said that they did not know about the novel until they were told of its existence by the two professors the Times credits with finding the manuscript...
...fact, one of the owners of the manuscript rights is Ziegler Professor of Business Administration John W. Pratt, the great-great grandson of Louisa's father Branson Alcott. Louisa died childless...
...literary heirs of Louisa May Alcott presented and sold a significant collection of Alcott papers to the Houghton library during its 50th anniversary in 1992," Wendorf said. "Our Alcott manuscripts are on deposit in the library including The Inheritance [and] have been catalogued and fully accessible to the public since they arrived...
Wendorf said he is not sure what had recently garnered the manuscript such attention but guessed it was the recent publicity Alcott's works have received, due in part to the adaptation of Little Women to film...