The Substance of Childhood - children's furniture

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2000 by Tracey Rae Beck

(2.) Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693; P. F. Collier, New York, 1910). P. 50.

(3.) Murray to William Palmer, July 23, 1803, in the papers of the Reverend John Murray, 1799-1810 (New-York Historiacal Society, New York City); quoted in Nancy Goyne Evans, American Windsor Furniture: Specialized Forms (Hudson Hills Press, New York, in association with the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, 1997). Pp. 144-145.

(4.) Quoted in Correspondence of James Fenimore Coopers, ed. James Fenimore Cooper, vol. 1 (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1922), pp. 14-15.

(5.) Walter Brooks, A Child and a Boy (Brentano's, New York, 1915), pp. 17-18, 48.

(6.) p. 55.