Account of Sophia and Abbey Carter and Laura Bridgman

In: Care of Handicapped Children. New York, Arno Press, 1974. p. 73-91. Samuel G. Howe's account of a few cases in which blind children, Sophia and Abbey Carter and Laura Bridgman, started life under unfavorable conditions and have, as the time of the writing, had "succeeded" them and are doing "well".  Reprinted from 1874 public document.