Letter, 1841 March 26, London, England, to Lydia Sigourney.

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Letter, 1841 March 26, London, England, to Lydia Sigourney.

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Discusses ramifications of the McLeod case and the possibility of war with Britain; thinks that the article about the blind-deaf-dumb child at the asylum in Boston will interest her.

2 p. ; 25 x 20 cm.

Connecticut Historical Society

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

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Perkins School for the Blind (Boston, Mass.)

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