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Title: A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General

Author: Winifred Holt

Author of introduction, etc.: Viscount James Bryce Bryce

Release date: June 12, 2016 [eBook #52310]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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A BEACON FOR THE BLIND

                                        Photo. Emery Walker

PROFESSOR AND MRS. FAWCETT
From the painting by Ford Madox Brown, now in the National Portrait Gallery

A BEACON FOR THE BLIND
BEING A LIFE OF
HENRY FAWCETT
THE BLIND POSTMASTER-GENERAL
BY
WINIFRED HOLT
‘He that is greatest among you
let him be servant of all.’
Logo
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
1914
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO THE FIVE ON TWO CONTINENTS
WHO MADE ITS WRITING POSSIBLE——
IN ENGLAND, B. T. AND F. DE G. E.
IN AMERICA, E. H. B., H. H.
AND R. H.