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Excerpt from: Alex Poole To Samuel Gridley Howe, November 16, 1842 Levi Taylor, about 70, an inmate of the alms house, had fits when about a week old and from that time he has been blind. Could learn no peculiarity in the family except that a sister in neighboring town, some years his superior is nearly or quite blind probably from age.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Alex Poole To Samuel Gridley Howe, November 16, 1842 | |
| Creator: | Alex Poole (author) | |
| Date: | November 16, 1842 | |
| Format: | Letter | |
| Source: | Perkins School for the Blind  | |
| Control no.: | Box AG 34, Census Returns of Blind, 1840 | |
| Keywords: | Aging; Almshouses; Blind; Census; Correspondence; Disease; Massachusetts; Medicine & Science; Perkins School For The Blind; Poverty; Sensory Disability; Statistics | |
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