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Eleventh Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts Asylum For The Blind
Laura generally appears, by the quickness of her motions and the eagerness of her gestures, to be in a state of mind which in another would be called unnatural excitement. Her spirit, apparently impatient of its narrow bounds, is as it were continually pressing against the bars of its cage, and struggling, if not to escape, at least to obtain more of the sights and sounds of the outer world....
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Title: Eleventh Annual Report Of The Trustees Of The Perkins Institution And Massachusetts Asylum For The Blind
Creator: Samuel Gridley Howe (author)
Date: 1843
Format: Annual Report
Source: Perkins School for the Blind
Location: Appendices, pp.23-46
Keywords: Biography; Blind; Boston, MA; Children; Communication; Correspondence; Deaf; Deaf-blind; Education; Educational Institutions; Family; Identity; Institutions; Julia Brace; Laura Bridgman; Manual Alphabet; Massachusetts; Medicine & Science; Oliver Caswell; Perkins School For The Blind; Psychology; Religion; Samuel Gridley Howe; Schools; Sensory Disability; Social Welfare & Communities; Women & Gender
Topics: Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy