MONTESSORI, Maria (1870-1952). Autograph letter signed ("Mammolina"), to Adele Costa Gnocchi. London, n.d. [c.1946].
1 page, 4to, on Twenty-Eighth International Training Course in Education letterhead, creased at folds, paperclip stain on upper margin, with original holograph envelope. Writing a teasing letter to her former student and advocate, on her silence: "So Adelina, what happened? Such an impressive silence! I am sure you are alive and healthy. Some problems are perhaps closing up your heart? Speak! Open up to your confidante." Adele Costa Gnocchi was a philosophy professor and a student of the educator Maria Montessori. In 1947, she developed the Assistants to Infancy course, for children from birth to three years of age, in close consultation with Montessori.
Property from the Robert L. McKay Collection, North Tustin, California
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