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TLS, one page, 8 x 10, January 24, 1909. Addressed from Wrentham, Massachusetts, a letter to Annie Lewis, a student at the Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, in full: “I was glad to get your letter and to hear about your school. It must be a delightful place, hard to leave when you graduate. I love to see gray stones covered with a network of vine-leaves. I wonder if you have seen the stone walls which run all over New England. I love to follow them, they are so picturesque, overgrown with hazel, juniper and barberry-shrubs. I have not much to write about myself. Our life here is a quiet, busy one; but I am happy in my work. You made me laugh by speaking of my ‘poems.’ I have written only one, and that has no metre, no rhyme, no regular division of lines! I write articles and letters, help Mrs. Macy with household work, read a little and go out a lot, walking or sleighing. The great, wonderful world out-of-doors is where I feel most at home. Please greet your teacher kindly for me and tell her I appreciated her kind letter. I send all your schoolmates loving messages and wishes for a happy year.” In fine condition, with a few tiny stains. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, as well as an original graduation certificate from The Pennsylvania Institution for the Deaf and Dumb issued to Annie Lewis on June 7, 1911. It reads, in part: “This certifies that Annie Vernon Lewis has completed the Regular Course of Study prescribed by the Board of Directors of this Institution, and as a Graduate thereof, is entitled to this Certificate of superior Scholarship and excellent Character.” The certificate is framed to an overall size of 22 x 18.
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