Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford

Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford

Poems and Prose on the Early American Deaf Community

Edna Edith Sayers and
Diana Moore, Editors

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Contents

Acknowledgments    ix

Introduction     1

Timeline 37

About the Texts 49

Part 1. Alice 51

    �For Alice� (1815) 51

    �To Alice� (1826) 53

    Excerpt on Alice from Letters of Life (1866), including
       �Les Sourds Muets se trouvent-ils malheureux?� (1827) 56

    Untitled poem beginning �You ask �how music melts away��
       (1828) 60

    �Funeral of Dr. Mason F. Coggswell� (1835) 61

    Excerpt on Alice from Letters to My Pupils(1851), including
       �Excuse for not Fulfilling an Engagement� (1815) and
       �Alice� (1831) 64

Part 2. Deaf Hartford 76

    Excerpt on the American Asylum from Scenes in My Native
       Land (1845) 78

    �To Fanny� (n.d.) 81

    �Opinions of the Uneducated Deaf and Dumb�(1827) 82

    �Prayers of the Deaf and Dumb� (1828) 90

    Memoir of Phebe P. Hammond, a Pupil at the American
       Asylum at Hartford (1833), including an untitled poem
       about Phebe Hammond in heaven 92

    �Marriage of the Deaf and Dumb� (1834) 108

    �The Mute Boy� (1835) 110

    �La Petite Sourde-Muette� (1848) 113

    Excerpts from Sayings of the Little Ones (1855) 116

Part 3. The Deaf-Blind Girls: Julia Brace and Laura Bridgman 118

    �The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl� (1828) 120

    �On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl of the American
       Asylum, Hartford, at a Festival� (1827) 128

    �On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, Sitting for Her
       Portrait� (1834) 134

    �Meeting of the Blind with the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind� (1834) 136

    �Laura Bridgman, the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, at the
       Institution for the Blind in Boston� (1838) 139

Part 4. Gallaudet 142

    Excerpt on school rewards from Letters of Life (1866)

    �A Little Girl to her Friend� (1834) 142

    �Hymn� (1851)

143

    Notes 145

    Works Cited 149

153

    Index of First Lines 161

Edna Edith Sayers, former professor of English at Gallaudet University, lives on Seneca Lake, NY, where she writes on Deaf history, Old Icelandic literature, and disability studies.

Diana Moore is a Deaf Collection and Instructional Librarian at Gallaudet University, Washington, DC.

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