BURROUGHS JOHN Autograph Manuscript Signed entitled Corrupti

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BURROUGHS, JOHN. Autograph Manuscript Signed, entitled Corrupting the Innocents, an essay on the evil effect of extravagant toys on children. Signed at the end, some corrections by Burroughs and pencil notations in another hand. 6 pages, six 8vo sheets; folds. Np, [1906]

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reflects the great naturalist's faith in the cultural effect of an interest in the simple things. "A modern house where there are several children is a perfect chaos of toys . . . Christmas is fast becoming a positive curse . . . I doubt if I had one boughten toy when a child . . . I had kites but I made them myself. A boy learns many things in making a kite. . . I earned my playthings and they never surfeited me. Let us stop this wicked corrupting of the innocents."