Laura Bridgman : the story of an opened door / by Laura E. Richards; prefatory note by William H. Burnham.
- Laura E. Richards
- Date:
- 1928
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Laura Bridgman : the story of an opened door / by Laura E. Richards; prefatory note by William H. Burnham. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the poor living being. I was extremely indiscreet and ignorant. I rejected the poor creature in to the hot fire, my Mother came rushing suddenly and rescued the cat from her danger. She seemed very impulsive with [for?] the insent [instant?] she shook and slapped me most sternly for my commit¬ ting a sin against her dear cat. she punished me so severely that I could not endure the effect of it for a long time. She held two of the cat’s paws up for me to discerne the mark of the flame of fire, my conscience told me at length that it was truly very wicked in me to have done a harm to her. It was very strange for the cat to go with the greatest fear¬ ful suspection [suspicion], she concealed herself so lucky [in] some [woods]. The old cat never brought her company to her oldest home since she was banished from our sight. I cannot ask her the reason why she never retraced her natural steps. I am positive that it must be reality of her death now. The favorite cat had not faith in us that we should treat her more kindly and tenderly again.” Laura’s writing was all her own; she was largely a law unto herself. Usually correct in speech, she could not be brought to feel the necessity of taking time and paper enough for her writing, but hurried through it, with frequent elisions and abbreviations which were clear to her own mind, but not to the eyes of readers. She loved new words, and long words; when at a loss, she would invent what seemed to her a good one. “I exerted myself to articulate [com-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931551_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
