Biography of Laura Bridgman (1829-89, the first deaf-blind person ever to read, write, and converse in the finger alphabet. The book includes a signed holograph facsimile of Bridgman's widely circulated religious poem, "Holy Home." Bridgman transcribed it by folding paper over a tablet with grooved lines that contained letters of the alphabet— a method of lettering commonly used by the blind in this period. Bridgman also used this method for her signature, which appears in facsimile on the upper cover of the original cloth binding. Bridgman was a prize student of Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-76) director of the Perkins School for the Blind, at which Lamson was a teacher. The book consists mainly of extracts from Lamson's diary and the diaries of other teachers at Perkins. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.