We analyze entanglement dynamics and transfer in a system composed of two initially correlated two-level atoms, in which each atom is coupled with another atom interacting with its own reservoir. Considering atomic dipole-dipole interactions, the results show that dipole-dipole interactions restrain the entanglement birth of the reservoirs, and a parametric region of dipole-dipole interaction strength exists in which the maximal entanglement of two initially uncorrelated atoms is reduced. The transfer of entanglement shows obvious different behaviors in two initial Bell-like states.OCIS codes: 020.5580, 060.5565. doi: 10.3788/COL201210.100202.Entanglement, a unique feature of quantum mechanical systems with no classical analog, is a crucial resource for various aspects of quantum information processing [1] . Entanglement dynamics and entanglement control have recently attracted extensive studies, and various aspects of entanglement, especially multipartite entanglement and its evolution, require further exploration [2] . A peculiar aspect of entanglement dynamics is the well known "entanglement sudden death (ESD)" phenomenon. In the process of entanglement distribution and qubit manipulation, each qubit is unavoidably exposed to its own uncontrollable environment. This phenomenon leads to local decoherences that spoil the necessary entanglement. In previous studies, various types of environments were studied, such as fermionic symmetry-broken [3] , quantum critical [4] , dephasing [5] , multimode electromagnetic field [6,7] , and quantum spin environments [8] , among others.The evolution of open quantum systems is divided into the Markovian and non-Markovian regimes. For the Markovian regime, the correlation time between the system and environment is infinitesimally small such that the dynamical map has no memory effects and results in a monotonic flow of information from the system to the environment. In contrast, a non-Markovian regime with memory has dynamical traits that give rise to the backflow of information from the environment to the system and can lead to distinctly different effects on the decoherence and disentanglement of open systems compared with the Markovian regime [9,10] . Several studies are currently focused on the non-Markovian regime for its dynamical behaviors that differ significantly from those of the Markovian regime, including those involving nonMarkovianity [9,10] , positivity [11,12] , and several other dynamical properties and approaches.The dynamics of entanglement transfer in interacting and non-interacting systems has been extensively studied [13−15] . Conservation for entanglement depends on how qubits are initially correlated [16] . Zhang et al. focused on the case in which two atoms off-resonantly interact with their loose cavities and examined the complete entanglement transfer from the atoms to their independent reservoirs [14] . In this letter, we study a system consisting of two initially correlated two-level atoms A and B, each coupled with another atom C(D) interacting ...