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Excerpt from: 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.... |  Read Full Text |
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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 | |
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