Author: Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333582067 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 376
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Excerpt from Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Schools of the City of Boston: March, 1903 Three months before she was seven years old, after a consultation with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell and Mr. Michael Anagnos, a teacher Was procured for her. The most important day I remember in all my life, she writes, is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. On the afternoon of that eventful day, I stood on the porch, dumbfi expectant. I guessed Vlaguely from my mother's signs and from the hurry to and Ifro in the house that something unusual was about to happen, so I went to the door and waited on the steps. The afternoon sun penetrated the mass of honeysuckle that covered the porch, and fell on my up xturned face. My fingers lingered almost unconsciously on the familiar leaves and blossoms 'wihlich had just come forth to greet the sweet 'southern: spring. I did not know what the future held of marvel or surprise for me. 'anger and bitterness 'had preyed u'pon me continually for weeks and a deep languor had succeeded this passion-ate Struggle. Her education, once begun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Boston (Mass ) Superintendent of Public Publisher: Wentworth Press ISBN: 9781011066049 Category : Languages : en Pages : 252
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