Letter from Samuel Gridley Howe to Samuel Dinsmoor, 1851 April 27
- Collection Name:
- Correspondence from Samuel Gridley Howe at the Perkins Insitution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind to the New Hampshire State Government
- Title:
- Letter from Samuel Gridley Howe to Samuel Dinsmoor, 1851 April 27
- Creator:
- Howe, Samuel Gridley, 1801-1876
- Creator Role:
- Author
- Accession / Call Number:
- 2022.054 (m)
- Object ID:
- 2022.054.02
- Date:
- 1851/04/27
- Type of Material:
- textual record
- Physical Description:
- 1 letter
- Language:
- English
- Scope and Content:
- Letter from Samuel Gridley Howe at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in Boston, MA, to New Hampshire Governor Samuel Dinsmoor in Concord, NH, dated April 27, 1851. In the letter, Howe writes in favor of the petition by J. M. Dunbar to obtain appropriations from the state to assist in his bills during his apprenticeship at the Institute. Howe argues that teaching adult blind people should fall under the Education of the Blind act.
- Subjects:
- Correspondence, Blind, Blind--Education, Teachers
- Locations:
- Boston, MA
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- Restrictions:
- Available for research.
- Level Description:
- Item
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