 He and Franklin Benjamin Sanborn composed a prospectus for the school on January 19, 1879, which was sent to potentially interested people throughout the country.The school opened in the summer of 1879; its first meeting was held in the study of the Alcott family home, Orchard House.A new home for the School was built for use the next summer with the financial support of William Torrey Harris and of his daughter Louisa May Alcott.