Other indoor leisure activities included letter writing and reading books from their extensive library located in the study.
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Ink Well Circa 1890-1900
Credits: Aurora Historical Society
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Robert Michael Hillary's journal 1928
The Brown Brothers Limited Manufacturing Stationers, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Credits: Aurora Historical Society
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Children's Literature
The selection of books in the collection that were owned by Hillary children is representative of a change in children's literature that took place in the 19th century. From texts that were didactic and instructional, books now became those which respected a child's imagination and valued the idea of 'childhood'.
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Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth 1900
Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, England
Credits: Aurora Historical Society
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A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson 1902
Henry Altemus Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania