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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![stitution for the Blind, in October, 1837, being then seven years old. For once, she has no “enjoyment” to chronicle. ‘I felt much grieved and tormented to leave my native town so suddenly. ... I dreaded leaving home so much that it made me shed an abundance of tears from my eyes many long days. The time elapsed so very heavily and painfully that I did not know what to do with myself. I kept clinging on my dear parents, so as to not let them escape from me, but did not succeed in detaining them. I was removed from them, they attemted to avoid me as quickly as possible, at the very moment that I lost them I burst in [to] bitterest tears. Miss J. Howe, one of the Dr, s Sisters, was with me then. She tried to pacify and sooth me, but my poor heart was too full of sor¬ row and trouble. I was so much more homesick to retrace my steps home than I could bear in my power. ... I had a very sad and pleasant time with Miss J.” No enjoyment; but “a sad and pleasant time”; the joyous spirit could not be entirely quelled. Perkins is the name beloved by recent genera¬ tions of pupils and graduates; but for many a long year it was “The Institution.” There were hundreds of other institutions, of every sort and description, in every state of the Union. No matter! to those who loved it, there was but one Institution, with a capital L](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931551_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
