Lot 132
Howe, Samuel Gridley - ALS re an "Idiotic Boy" Who May Be Qualified for Howe's School (1801-1876, Boston), American physician, educator, and abolitionist as well as the founding director of the New-England Institution for the Education of the Blind (later known as the Perkins School for the Blind) and the Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth. Autograph letter signed "S.G. Howe," one page, on "Perkins' Institution, and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind" letterhead, Boston, Apr. 1, 1862. To A.P. Peabody, regarding "an idiotic boy in whom you are kindly interested." He is told to get the mother to fill out the blanks in a paper he is enclosing (not present), and "I shall be able to judge by the answers whether the lad is a proper subject for the school. If he is I will take the necessary steps to procure his admission. It will be necessary that his friends provide his clothing but they will be put to no further expense." A couple of small edge splits and chips, else fine. At that time, intellectually disabled people were referred to as "idiotic" and "feeble minded." Estimate Value $200 - UP
Ex: Paul Richards, ca. 1985.
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