Read a piece on theosophy and architecture which reminded me of the kindergarten/Bauhaus connection and specifically of the claims made about Johannes Itten 1888 - 1967 but Itten seems to have been into other things and this article also mentions Dalcroze, about whom, more later.

An Isabel Margesson, of the Sesame Club, connection. This kind of thing was supposedly new in the sixties www.balagokulam.org - Biographies

Inquiry received about play with blocks and its relation to architecture. Raises issue of contingency in pedagogy.

Received request from Germany for information about Karl Fröbel's (Froebel) life in England. I realise that there are many gaps in what is known about him and his wife, Johanna Küstner Froebel. Most of what is known is here
but just discovered he knew Sir William Mather
All this emphasises the importance of Manchester as a centre of bourgeois culture in the nineteenth century. Must start reading Mrs Gaskell another Unitarian.