BRIDGMAN LAURA Autograph Letter Signed L Bridgman

Sale 2058 - Lot 30

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BRIDGMAN, LAURA. Autograph Letter Signed, "L. Bridgman" to an unnamed recipient, a rambling letter on her likes and dislikes and her teacher Mrs. M. 2 pages, single 4to sheet; remnants of prior mounting along right edge on verso, contemporary ink inscription on verso. [New Hampshire], 1854

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Bridgman (1829-89) considered the first blind and deaf person to be educated in America, taught to write and read by Samuel Gridley Howe, the founder of the Perkins School for the Blind. Letters written in her block writing -- similar to handwriting by Helen Keller, but earlier -- are quite scarce.