Dear Mr Froebel: Letters to the Friend of Children and Humanity

Letters to the Friend of Children and Humanity

Thusnelda Salzmann: a distant cousin who supported Kindergarten. Schnepfenthal, October, 1840
Ottilie de Liagre: observes that Froebel's Method should empower children to be lively and free, but immature people can degrade it into a mechanical routine. Hamburg, June 1844
Rosina Roos: describes the acceptance of Kindergarten after initial concern about allowing children to play. Rieder Ingelheim, August 19, 1844
Pauline Hauthal: writes a charming account of her son, Otto playing with the fourth gift. Rudolstadt, August 24, 1848
Johanna Hebart: describes her desire to be a Kindergarten teacher. Nuernberg, August 19, 1850
Dorothea Huebner: shares her joy at her appointment. Hamburg, November 30, 1850
Babette Fischer: writes to seek admission to the training course at Marienthal. Nuernberg October 9, 1851
Gretchen Bielefeldt: writes with Birthday greetings and gifts made by the children of her Kindergarten. April, 1851 and 1852
Anna Hesse: writes from First Citizens' Kindergarten in Hamburg with Birthday greetings April, 1852
Minna Schellhorn: trained at Marienthal and now writes with samples of blue cloth, which Froebel had asked her to send. June 1852
Johanna Froebel: participated in the Pedagogues’ Convention 1848 in Rudolstadt, married Friedrich Froebel’s nephew, Karl Froebel, and worked at his educational institute in Zurich.
Minna Kirchner: writing about Mother Songs