[Montessori education] Two letters in pen and one in typescript addressed to Mario 'Pao' Montessori (1898-1982)

Son of Maria Montessori, written by Albert Max ('Abs') Joosten, all in fluent Italian, all signed "Abs" in pen, dated "Dublin, 6 Giugno 1946", "Amsterdam, 2 Marzo 1947" and "Amsterdam, 1 Giugno 1947", respectively. Two letters of respectively 2 pages (measuring 20 x 13 cm), 4 pages (measuring 18 x 11.5 cm), and a typescript letter w. manuscript additions on paper of the Association Montessori Internationale), 28 x 21.7 cm. Impressive letters, the handwritten ones reporting on tensions surrounding the referendum of 2 June 1946 by which Italy became a republic, and giving updates on the health and travels between London and Amsterdam of Maria Montessori lovingly referred to as "Mammolina" (also repeatedly mentioned in the typescript letter). -and 4 other letters in Italian in pen, incl. letters by Anna Maccheroni (1876-1965) to "Carissima Signorina Paolini" (15 June, 1946), by Adele Costa Gnocchi (1883-1967) (25-29 April 1947) and by Mariella and Giulia Magrini to "Gentilissima principessa" (Maria Gabriella di Savoia, shortly after the mentioned referendum).

*Interesting sm. collection of letters. Albert Max ('Abs') Joosten (1914–1980), a first generation Montessori student, was a prominent Dutch pedagogue and one of the most celebrated trainers of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI), assisting Maria Montessori in spreading her method worldwide. Ada Pierson (1914–1988) played a crucial role in the history of the Dutch Montessori school system and was instrumental in the settlement of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and the Montessori family in the Netherlands. She invited Maria en Mario "Pao" Montessori (1898-1982) to stay in the Pierson house in Baarn, the villa 'Intimis'. She was a former pupil of the method and married Mario, son of Maria ('Mammolina') Montessori, in 1947. Ada Pierson devoted her life to supporting Maria en Mario, became secretary of the AMI and played a key role in the internationalization of the pedagogic Montessori method. Adele Costa Gnocchi was one of the most loyal students and later one of the most important colleagues of Maria Montessori, playing a revolutionary role in extending the Montessori method to children in the age of 0 to 3 years. Anna Maccheroni (1876-1965) was also one of the most influential and among the earliest of followers of Maria Montessori, playing a crucial role in translating the Montessori-principles into musical education and in worldwide dissemination of the method. (total 7)