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Sarah Fuller To Alexander Graham Bell, May 3, 1890
My constant round of care has prevented me from sending reports of Helen’s progress to you. She has not yet acquired power to sound all of the elements perfectly, but her speech is fairly intelligible. She is fond of talking and I think it better to allow her to use speech as freely as she likes, and to correct mispronunciation as one would in the case of a little hearing child, just learning to speak, rather than insist upon having every sound correctly, every time he attempts to express a thought....