Deaf American Prose 1830-1930

Contents

v Contents Foreword Christopher Krentz ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction Jennifer L. Nelson and Kristen C. Harmon 1 John Robertson Burnet The Orphan Mute, 1835 11 My Sister’s Funeral, 1835 18 James Nack Law Proceedings, 1839 22 The Last Words of a Bachelor, 1839 24 Laurent Clerc Visits to Some of the Schools for the Deaf and Dumb in France and England, 1848 31 Unknown The Wonderful Coffee-Mill, 1849 33 Isaac H. Benedict Aerial Navigation by a Deaf-Mute, 1855 36 Mary St. Cloud Belches A Family History, 1856 44 vi Contents Joseph Mount, “Joe the Jersey Mute” Recollections of a Deaf and Dumb Teacher, 1858 48 A Leaf from a Teacher’s Diary, 1865 51 John Carlin Excerpt from The Scratchsides Family, 1868 55 Howard Glyndon (Laura Redden Searing) The Realm of Singing, c. 1872 60 The Widow Waring’s Christmas Surprise, 1872 66 William B. Swett Selections from Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, 1874 74 James Denison Impressions of the Milan Convention, 1881 81 Edwin (Edmund) Booth Booth’s Reminiscences of Gallaudet, 1881 90 Kate M. Farlow Selections from Silent Life and Silent Language, or, the Inner Life of a Mute, 1883 92 W.C. Scene in a Railroad Station, 1893 105 Frieda W. Bauman A Romance of Far Away Cuba, 1900 107 Hypatia Boyd What One Girl Hears and Sees, 1901 112 What One Girl Hears and Sees (continued), 1901 116 Douglas Tilden Reflections of a Deaf-Mute Philosopher, 1903 122 Contents vii Helen Keller What I Am Doing, 1905 127 Alice C. Jennings Is It Beneficial to a Deaf Oralist to Learn the Sign Language, 1906 133 Douglas Tilden More Extracts from the “Zeno” Mss: The So-called “Tribe of Fools,” 1907 137 Alice Taylor Terry Bro. Hart’s “Something Greater,” 1908 150 Thomas Flowers Life after Graduation, c. 1908 157 Howard L. Terry A Sophomore’s Revenge, 1896/1910 160 Helen Keller New Vision for the Blind, 1913 164 Margaret Prescott Montague The Little Sign for Friend, 1915 167 Enchanted Princess, 1916/1934 175 Alice Taylor Terry Sound—Why Not Let It Alone? 1919 188 Vera Gammon The Three Doors to Knowledge, 1919 193 Guie Leo Deliglio The Test of the Heart, 1921 198 Miss Hester of Sunset Valley, 1921 203 George W. Veditz De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum, 1922 211 viii Contents Howard L. Terry Selections from Mickey’s Harvest: The Checkered Life of an Unusual Boy, 1922 214 James F. Brady Pro and Con, 1923 228 A Christmas Story, 1923 232 Albert V. Ballin A New York Deaf Artist at Hollywood: Some Experiences in Getting a Foothold in the Movie Studios of Hollywood, 1925 237 James F. Brady By Their Signs Ye Shall Know Them, 1926 242 Albert V. Ballin In an Impromptu Don Quixotic Tilt with a Modern Wind Mill, called Automobile, with Dire Results to Himself, 1926 245 Roger Demosthenes O’Kelly A Fight with a Highwayman, 1927 249 Albert V. Ballin The Life of a Lousy Extra, 1928 253 Howard T. Hofsteater The Wound, 1930 258 Afterword Octavian Robinson 259 ...