you might have recognized the name of dorothy dix.he founded the sanitation committee which was the forerunner of the american red cross and was active in prison reform and reform of institutions for the mentally ill and she served bronson alcott as a teaching assistant. he had very distinguished group of teaching assistants. he had margaret fuller in the nineteenth century as his assistant and peabody hawthorne, talented artist and his sister elizabeth peabody worked with bronson at the temple's school. that died out because of the scandal. what else do i want to tell you? there is so much to say. >> what about she didn't know before, something that was oh, really caught you by surprise and gained insight into her that you weren't expecting? >> that she was a runner kind of surprised me. i knew she had written these thrillers. some of her religious ideas at the end of her life she said she believed in reincarnation. when you look back at her other writings you can see she was a i wish i was a horse in a former state. i love to move s

one of them was dorothy dix, who wanted lisa take into her own quarters for personal care.wanted to stay where she was. bronson doubted that his daughter could regain either strength or spirit in washington that the doctors felt she was not strong enough to travel. restless and anxious, but for bid in tuesday at his daughter's bedside, bronson made the rounds of louisa's patience and was disabuse up disabused of any romantic ideas about the struggle. the horrid war he wrote in his journal and one sees a tour in hospitals if anywhere. on the 19th, he visited the senate and finding a seed air president lincoln, studied his face at close range and found him only are than the papers and portraits had shown him. and his manner impressive. i was to have had an interview, but i'm too anxious about louisa and without time to see kids. on the 20th of january mrs. robes died. the next they louisa agree to let her father take her home. so, that is part of her experience. you might've recognized the name dorothea dix and there. she founded the sanitation committee which was the forerun