Letter, 1841 March 8, to Josiah Stevens, Jr.

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Letter, 1841 March 8, to Josiah Stevens, Jr.

Letter from Governor Page to Secretary of State Stevens discussing the continued payment of the educational fees for Laura Bridgman as a blind and deaf student.

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Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (b. December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire-d. May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the more famous Helen Keller. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Brail...

New Hampshire. Governor (1839-1842 : Page)

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Page, John, 1787-1865

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New Hampshire. Secretary of State

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Stevens, Josiah

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