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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Timeline 37 About the Texts 49 Part 1. Alice 51 “For Alice” (1815) 51 “To Alice” (1826) 53 Excerpt on Alice from Letters of Life (1866), including “Les Sourds Muets se trouvent-ils malheureux?” (1827) 56 Untitled poem beginning “You ask ‘how music melts away’” (1828) 60 “Funeral of Dr. Mason F. Coggswell” (1835) 61 Excerpt on Alice from Letters to My Pupils (1851), including “Excuse for not Fulfilling an Engagement” (1815) and “Alice” (1831) 64 Part 2. Deaf Hartford 76 Excerpt on the American Asylum from Scenes in My Native Land (1845) 78 “To Fanny” (n.d.) 81 “Opinions of the Uneducated Deaf and Dumb” (1827) 82 “Prayers of the Deaf and Dumb” (1828) 90 Memoir of Phebe P. Hammond, a Pupil at the American Asylum at Hartford (1833), including an untitled poem about Phebe Hammond in heaven 92 “Marriage of the Deaf and Dumb” (1834) 108 “The Mute Boy” (1835) 110 “La Petite Sourde-Muette” (1848) 113 Excerpts from Sayings of the Little Ones (1855) 116 vii Sigourney FM Pgs i-x.indd 7 4/4/2013 12:34:56 PM viii Contents Part 3. The Deaf-Blind Girls: Julia Brace and Laura Bridgman 118 “The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl” (1828) 120 “On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl of the American Asylum, Hartford, at a Festival” (1827) 128 “On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, Sitting for Her Portrait” (1834) 134 “Meeting of the Blind with the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind” (1834) 136 “Laura Bridgman, the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, at the Institution for the Blind in Boston” (1838) 139 Part 4. Gallaudet 142 Excerpt on school rewards from Letters of Life (1866) 142 “A Little Girl to her Friend” (1834) 143 “Hymn” (1851) 145 Notes 149 Works Cited 153 Index of First Lines 161 Sigourney FM Pgs i-x.indd 8 4/4/2013 12:34:56 PM ...