Letter from Michael Anagnos to Annie Sullivan, March 5, 1889 (p. 1 of 3)
Letter from Michael Anagnos to Annie Sullivan, March 5, 1889 (p. 1 of 3)
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Letter from Michael Anagnos to Annie Sullivan, March 5, 1889 (p. 1 of 3)
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March 5th 9 My dear Annie, I owe you an answer to your last letter and an acknowledgement of the receipt of the photographs, which you were so very good as to send me. Indeed, I was exceedingly glad to receive them, and so was everyone else. But Miss Calliope Kelayia and Mr. Rodonachi were very much pleased, that you favored them with your picture, and they wished me thank you for it. The former sailed for England two weeks ago, and we expect to hear soon of her safe arrival in Liverpool. I see by your last letter, that you still continue to misunderstand the exact meaning of the statement that I made on the 69th page of my last annual report in regard to Dr. Howe's work. I deem it my duty to return to this subject and to repeat with emphasis, that my words are absolutely true in their broadest meaning. By reading them carefully, you will find, that they relate exclusively to the means and methods employed in penetrating the double wall of deafness and blindness and bringing the incarcerated mind in direct communication with the outer world. They have no reference whatever to the education of persons deprived of the sense of hearing and sight. Now is there the slightest doubt that Dr. Howe, and he alone, established this royal road and that all his successors follow in his path step by step? Has any one thought of using a way or process of differing from his in order to reach an entombed soul? Has it ever occurred to you to convey information to Helen's mind through her toes or the back of her head or her nose? You may say, that Dr. Howe did not invent the manual alphabet or the raised letters nor did he...
