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Excerpt from The Blind-Deaf: A Monograph Mr: Anagnosis-comment on this-: letter is With all my faith in the vastness of her abilities, I was not quite prepared to believe that she would succeed in accomplishing in three months what no child in America in full' possession of his faculties would be expected to do in less than a year. In a letter dated May 24, 1890, Miss Sullivan _writes of Helen's rapid mastery of articulation: Just. As soon as she had mastered an element, the words in which it occurred presented themselves to her mind. Think of it She achieved in less than two months what it takes the pupils of the schools for the deaf several years to accomplish, and then they do not speak as plainly as she does. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.