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Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe
Quite other experiences were in store for me. I chanced to pass the summer of 1841 at a cottage in the neighborhood of Boston, with my sisters and a young friend much endeared to us as the betrothed of the dearly loved brother Henry, whose recent death had greatly grieved us.
Longfellow and Sumner often visited us in our retirement.
The latter once made mention of Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe's wonderful achievement in the case of Laura Bridgman, the first blind deaf mute who had ever been taught the use of language.
He also brought us some of the reports which gave an account of the progress of her education.
It was proposed that we should drive over to the Perkins Institution on a given day. Mr. Longfellow came for me in a buggy, while Mr. Sumner conducted my two sisters and our friend.
We found Laura, then a child of ten years, seated at her little desk, and beside her another girl of the same age, also a blind deaf mute.
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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 13 : the Boston Radical Club: Dr. F. H. Hedge (search)
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