From the book Concord Sketches: Consisting of Twelve Photographs from Original Drawings by May Alcott. Published in Boston by Fields, Osgood & Co. in 1869.

Accompanying caption:
"He has wandered from spot to spot, pitching a temporary tent, then striking it for ‘fresh fields and pastures new.’ It is natural, therefore, that he should call his house ‘The Wayside,’–a bench upon the roadside where he sits for a while before passing on."
-Curtis, in Homes of American Authors.

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