Samuel P. Hayes Research Library
Perkins School for the Blind
175 N. Beacon Street
Watertown, MA 02472
Samuel Gridley Howe Collection Finding Aid
TITLE: Samuel Gridley Howe Collection
CREATOR: Unknown
DATE RANGE: 1820-2011, bulk 1820-1910
CALL NUMBER: AG18
PROVENANCE: Unknown, some items donated by Camilla McRory, Margaret McRory, Susan
McRory and other Howe family descendants.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 18 linear feet
LANGUAGE: English, some Greek
HISTORICAL NOTE: Samuel Gridley Howe, 1801-1876, was the founding director of the Perkins
School for the Blind. He attended Brown University and Harvard Medical School and was a
soldier and surgeon in the Greek War of Independence. He is best remembered for his work
with Laura Bridgman, a pupil at Perkins who was deafblind and one of the earliest individuals
with deafblindness to learn language, and the first American to do so. Howe was a prominent
leader in the field of blindness, printing for the blind, and other social justice and educational
reform movements in the United States. He was married to Julia Ward Howe, suffragist and
author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
RESTRICTIONS: None
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copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs,
legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Perkins School
for the Blind, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any
person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
CREDIT LINE/CITATION: Samuel Gridley Howe Collection, Perkins School for the Blind.
PROCESSING NOTE: Processed by Molly Stothert-Maurer, 2012
KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS:
SGH- Samuel Gridley Howe
JWH- Julia Ward Howe
ORGANIZATION
Series 1: Writings authored by or quoting SGH published in newspapers, magazines, pamphlets
and books.
Series 2: Writings about SGH published in newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books.
Series 3: Published and un-published materials. Howe Memorial Association materials, Writings
about SGH 1911-1959
Series 4: Personal Papers and Correspondence
Series 5: Photocopied research materials and In-Look Archives Survey materials, 1980-2008
Series 6: Howe family materials, oversize materials, photographs, 3D objects
Series 7: Books and bound volumes
INVENTORY:
Series 1: Writings by or quoting SGH published in newspapers, magazines,
pamphlets and books
Box 1: Writings by SGH, 1820-1829
Folders 1: Handwritten box inventory, n. d. 2 letters by SGH from Greece, Essex Register, 1825.
Folder 2: Extract from statement of SGH’s at Greek meeting in New York The Bower of Taste, p.
184-185, reference to SGH and Byron, p. 189, 1828
Folder 3: Extract from address by SGH at meeting for Greek Relief, 1828-29
Folder 4: Letter by SGH from Greece, National Philanthropist & Investigator, 1829
Box 2: Writings by SGH, 1830-1835.
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n. d. 2 articles in Boston Weekly Messenger, on the Poles,
signed Yorick, 1834.
Folder 2: “From the Mss. Of a Traveler in the East”, possibly by SGH on hanging/execution in
Greece, 1831
Folder 3: “Education of the Blind,” North American Review, 1833
Folder 4: Female education in Greece, Troy Press, 1833. Extract of SGH letter to woman in Troy,
NY on Greek society, Gambier Observer, 1833
Folder 5: Statement on Poles, Boston Messenger, The Statesmen, 1834
Folder 6: Education of women in Greece, letter to Mrs. Emma Willard, American Ladies’
Magazine, 1834
Folder 7: “Proceedings of the New-England Anti-Slavery Convention”, Boston, Garrison &
Knapp, 1834, p. 14 SGH against having African American children at Perkins, because other
pupils from the South might not like it.
Folder 8: Address of The Trustees of the New-England Institution for the Education of the Blind
to the Public, 1833, p 6-18 report to trustees by SGH
Folder 9: SGH letter to his father when in prison in Berlin, printed in Boston Weekly
Messenger, 1832
Folder 10: Account of lawsuit Hale vs. Howe with quotes from SGH, New York Commercial
Advertiser, 1832
Folder 11: SGH letter to Mrs. Phelps, Address on the Subject of Female Education in Greece,
1833
Folder 12: Paraphrases some of an oration of SGH before Collepe Athenaean
Society, Mercantile Journal, 1833
Folder 13: Quotes from SGH on Belgian struggle for independence, Boston Masonic
Mirror, 1830
Folder 14: On Belgian independence and Berlin, Courier, 1832
Folder 15: Letter about the mission of the Polish army in Germany by SGH, Columbian
Centinal, Boston, 1832
Folder 16: Article on Poland by SGH, signed “Observer”, Boston Courier, 1831-32
Folder 17: Letter from SGH from prison in Berlin, to Dr. Fisher, Boston Courier, 1832
Folder 18: Mentions SGH’s school in a colony at Ilexanilia, Greece, Massachusetts Journal, 1830
Folder 19: Letters to the Courier, from Paris, signed “Observer”, 1831-1832
Folder 20: Letters to the Courier, possibly from SGH, 1831
Folder 21: Paraphrasing of SGH’s letter from Greece to Prof. Sillinau, Boston Recorder, 1830
Folder 22: “A Death and Burial in Greece”, New England Magazine, p 40-43, 1831
Folder 23: “Education of the Blind” by SGH, 2 bound copies, 1833
Folder 24: Columbian Centinel, June 6, 1832, mentions SGH
Box 3: Writings by SGH, 1835-1839
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n. d. Article on the education of blind, Christian
Watchman, Boston, July 29, 1836
Folder 2: “A Modern Greek”, a character sketch by SGH, The Boston Book, 1837
Folder 3: “Education of the Blind”, by SGH p. 266-281, Literary and Theological Review, 1836
“On the Education of the Blind”, lectures delivered before the American Institute of Instruction
in Boston, 1837
Folder 4: “A Discourse on the Social Relations of Man”, Boston Phrenological Society, by SGH,
1837
Folder 5: “Education of the Blind” by SGH in The Lectures delivered before the American
Institute of Instruction, in Boston, August, 1836 Including The Journal of Proceedings, and A list
of the Officers, 1837
Folder 6: “Education of the Blind” by SGH in American Annals of Education and Instruction, 1836
Folder 7: Education of Laura Bridgman, collected writings of SGH with introduction by JWH,
1837-1849
Folder 8: Sixth Annual Report of the Boston Academy of Music, 1838
Folder 9: Seventh Annual Report of the Boston Academy of Music, 1839
Folder 10: Extract of letter from SGH, p 62-64, Report of the Secretary of the Board of Education
on the Subject of School Houses, 1838. Same letter quoted in The Common School Journal, 1839.
Folder 11: article on phrenology by SGH, Providence Journal, 1836
Folder 12: City of Boston School Committee, City Document.-No. 7 letter by SGH with response,
1839
Box 4: Writings by SGH, 1840-1849
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n.d. “Provision for the Insane”, by SGH, unknown
newspaper, n.d.
Folder 2: Schools in Rome, SGH p. 226-229, Common School Journal, 1844
Folder 3: address of SGH at a public meeting held to protest the forcible return to New Orleans
of a fugitive slave. John Quincy Adams returned from retirement to preside at the
meeting, Address of the Committee Appointed by a Public Meeting, held at Faneuil Hall,
September 24, 1846, for the purpose of considering the recent case of Kidnapping From Our Soil,
and of taking measures to prevent the recurrence of Similar Outrages, 1846
Folder 4: letter to raise interest in a Boston Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts, by SGH and
others, 1847
Folder 5: preface by SGH of Report of a Minority of the Special Committee of the Boston Prison
Discipline Society, 1845
Folder 6: An Essay on Separate and Congregate Systems of Prison Discipline, by SGH, 1846
Folder 7: Letter from SGH, report on House Bill #108, regarding funds for Perkins, 1847
Folder 8: Article quoting Howe on heredity, The Standard, 1848
Folder 9: Thoughts on Language; A Lecture delivered before the American Institute of
Instruction, by SGH, 1842
Letter from SGH to Horace Mann, 1840 in Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Education,1841
“Blindness and Idiocy” by WHH, SGH quotes p. 453-454, in The Christian Examiner, 1848
“To the Citizens of Boston” regarding School Committee by SGH, in unknown publication
printed by Eastburn’s Press, 1846
“Hereditary Infirmity” from the 16th Report to Perkins trustees, by SGH extract printed in The
Common School Journal, 1848
SGH and others on subject of slavery, Evening Transcript, 1848
A Letter to the Editor of the North British Advertiser (Scotland), by SGH responding to an article
by John Alston, where he was mis-quoted and mis-represented, 1841 and response from John
Alston
Folder 10: Insanity in Massachusetts, by SGH, reprinted from North American Review, 1843
Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Education, together with the Fourth Annual Report of the
Secretary of the Board, 1841
Box 5: Writings by SGH, 1850-1859
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n.d.
Folder 2: Letter from SGH on slavery, The Liberator, 1855
Letter from SGH to Governor, p. 2, Senate …No. 37, 1855
A Letter to J. H. Wilkins, H. B. Rogers, and F. B. Fay, Commissioners of Massachusetts for the
State Reform School for Girls, by SGH, 1854
“Dr. Howe’s Reports Upon Idiocy”, quotes SGH, The Christian Examiner, 1851
“Report of Dr. Howe on the Instruction of Idiots”, quotes SGH, Christian Register, 1851
“Convention of Superintendents and Teachers of Institutions for the Instruction of the
Blind”, New York Daily Tribune, 1853
“A Letter to the Governor of Massachusetts, upon his Veto of a Bill, providing for an Increase of
State Beneficiaries, at the School for Idiotic Children, by SGH, 1857
“The Defensive League of Freedom” (to protect fugitive slaves) by SGH and others, n. d.
“Grand Rally of the Free Democracy! Old Faneuil Hall Thronged!”, remarks by
SGH, Commonwealth, 1853
“The Free Democracy in Council/ Grand Rally at the Tabernacle/ Speeches of John P.Hale and
others/ Manifesto of the Free Soil Committee”, New York Herald, 1853
Folder 3: appeal to public for funds for revolution in Hungary and other parts of Europe, by SGH
and others, 1852
Appeal for $100,000 for the Institution for the Blind, ca. 1851
Folder 4: SGH’s account of cruelty to African American prisoners in New Orleans, A Key to Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853
Folder 5: Anti-slavery meeting at Faneuil Hall, announced by SGH, unknown newspaper, 1854
Folder 6: Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, 1855
Folder 7: writings of SGH on slaveholders in Kansas, 1856, in Proceedings of the Massachusetts
Historical Society,1908
Folder 8: A Letter to the Governor of Massachusetts, upon his Veto of a bill, providing for an
Increase of State Beneficiaries, at the School for Idiotic Children, by SGH, 1857
Laura Bridgman, by SGH, reprint from Bernard’s American Journal of Education, 1857 (2 copies)
Phrenology quotes from SGH, 1858, in The Character Builder, 1920
Report of the Boston Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts, 1857
Box 6: Writings by SGH, 1860-1869
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n.d.
Folder 2: “The Lunatics of Gheel”, by SGH, Boston Advertiser, 1867
SGH’s answer to editor of London Diplomatic Review on motives for going to Greece, ca. 1869
Folder 3: Ceremonies on Laying the Corner-Stone, of The New York State Institution for the
Blind, oration by SGH, 1866
Address Delivered at the Ceremony of Laying the Corner-Stone of the New York State Institution
for the Blind, by SGH, 1866 (2 copies)
Folder 4: Photocopy of “Address Delivered at the Ceremony of Laying the Corner-Stone of the
New York State Institution for the Blind”, by SGH, 1866
Folder 5: Appeal to the women of New England on behalf of the United States Sanitary
Commission, ca. 1862
Folder 6: “A Letter on the Sanitary Condition of the Troops in the Neighborhood of Boston”, by
SGH, 1861
“A Letter to Mrs.-----, and Other Loyal Women, Touching the Matter of Contributions for the
Army”, by SGH, 1862
“Remarks Upon the Education of Deaf Mutes: in Defence [sic] of the Doctrines of the Second
Annual Report of the Massachusetts Board of State Charities, and in Reply to the Charges of the
Rev. Collins Stone, Principal of the American Asylum at Hartford”, by SGH, 1866
Folder 7: SGH’s statement regarding Harper’s Ferry Investigation Committee- John Brown
Slavery, New York Daily Tribune, 1860
Letter regarding proceeds of concert for Cretan Patriots, Dwight’s Journal of Music, 1867
“Appeal to the People of the United States to Relieve from Starvation the Women and Children
of the Greeks of the Island of Crete”, 1867 (2 copies)
Quotes by SGH on subject of Deaf Mutes, The Christian Register, 1867
Quoted letter to Gen. Tremont by SGH about Lincoln and presidential election, Atlantic
Monthly, 1864
Folder 8: “U. S. Sanitary Commission, No. 93. Circular Addressed to the Branches and Aid
Societies tributaries to the U. S. Sanitary Commission”, SGH and others, 1865
Cretan appeal, ca. 1866
Letter to the Governor on the poor conditions of Civil War camps, House… No. 40, 1862
“Preliminary Report touching the Condition and Management of Emancipated Refugees; Made
to the Secretary of War by the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission”, by SGH and others,
1863
“Inauguration of the Statue of Horace Mann”, by SGH and others, 1865
SGH’s statement concerning reorganization of improvements for Perkins, 1868
Box 7: Writings by SGH, 1870-1876
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n.d. Archives Survey forms, 2002
Folder 2: Santo Domingo clipping, article by SGH, New York Independent, Nov. 27, 1873
Folder 3: “A Corrected Copy of Dr. Howe’s Letter, in Daily Advertiser, October 30, entitled A
Plea, Alike in Behalf of our Pauper Lunatics and of our Tax Payers” (4 copies)
“Objections to the Proposed Plan for a City Hospital for Lunatics at Winthrop; with Answers to
the Article of J. Putnam Bradlee, in the Daily Advertiser, Nov. 6.” by SGH, 1871 (3 copies)
Public Document—No. 27, “Appendix A, directors remarks on printing for the blind”, by SGH,
1872
Public Document—No. 27, “Appendix A, Education of the Blind”, by SGH, 1873
“Charles Sumner’s Explanation in Reply to an Assault a Speech Prepared for the United States
Senate March, 1871”, paragraph by SGH p. 6, also mentions a Mr. Howe, Senator from
Wisconsin [Timothy Otis Howe], 1878
“Letters on the Proposed Annexation of Santo Domingo, in Answer to Certain Charges in the
Newspapers”, by SGH, 1871 (2 copies)
“Remarks on the Theories of Dr. Samuel G. Howe, Respecting the Education of Deaf Mutes, as
Set Forth in the Second Report of the Board of State Charities” by “A Native of Massachusetts”,
contains quotes from SGH, n. d, after 1875
“The Causes and Prevention of Idiocy”, by SGH, 1874 (2 copies)
“Blindness—Important Views” newspaper article by SGH on blindness and heredity, n. d.
Folder 5: Supplement to 43rd Annual Report of Perkins “Advice to Parents of Blind Children” by
SGH, 1875
SGH quoted on need for college for the blind p. 230-233, Journal of Social Science, 1870
Public Document #27 (School Report), SGH on printing books for the blind/raised type, p. 36-37,
chart of schools for the blind, p. 34, letter to teachers convention, p. 24-28, 1871
“Santo Domingo, Annexation, Slavery” by SGH in The Independent (New York), 1872 (3 copies)
Letter to the editor of the New York Times, by SGH about Santo Domingo in the Boston Herald,
1871
Newspaper clipping with SGH’s diary entry from Santo Domingo, 1871
“The Cuban Imbroglio” on Cuban slavery, by SGH in The Independent New York, 1873
“Annexation Vs. Slavery” by SGH, The Independent New York, 1873
“Warning Against Dempsey B. Sherrod, and his Proposed American Printing House, and
University for the Blind”, by SGH, 1875
Folder 6: Handwritten inventory of clipping related to the death of SGH, n. d.
11 newspaper clippings, program of memorial service on Feb 8, 1876
Series 2: Writings about SGH published in newspapers, magazines, pamphlets
and books
Box 8: Writings about SGH, 1801-1876
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n.d.
Article on arrest and imprisonment of Dr. Howe, Boston Recorder, 1832
SGH imprisonment, Boston Weekly Messenger, May 10, 1832
SGH in Belgium, Boston Weekly Messenger, June 11, 1832
Clipping with letter from Lafayette and from Polish Committee in Paris, mentions SGH, 1832
Folder 2: “Boston Portraits in French Setting”, p. 87, Every Saturday, description of SGH and
JWH and her literary club, 1866
Article on SGH in Greece, The Vermont Chronicle, 1844
SGH and the Poles, Columbian Centinel, 1832, see oversized box
Folder 3: “theology” and “views of religious education”, criticizes SGH, p. 235-236, The Christian
Observatory, 1847
Newspaper account of a caravan trek across “the wild country of Iowa”, of which SGH was a
part, The Independent, 1856
Folder 4: SGH in Canada, American Traveler, 1860
Article on 8th Annual Report, SGH and printing, contributions to institute, North American
Review, 1840
“Speech of James Hoban, Esq.” counsel of John Williams, Oculist, mentions SGH p. 5, 1837
Folder 5: “Education of the Blind”, North American Review, 1833
Folder 6: Not very accurate paraphrasing of parts of [Eup.] article also (mistakenly?) attributes
ideas in article to SGH, Revue Britannique, 1833
Folder 7: “Education of the Blind”, references to SGH p. 39, 41, The North American
Review, 1833, 1895 reprint
“Institutions for the Blind”, American Annals of Education and Instruction, 1833
Excerpt mentioning SGH and instruction of Laura Bridgman, “Report of the 14th meeting of the
British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science”, 1844
Folder 8: Godey’s Lady’s Book, 1842
Folder 9: SGH’s proposed trip to Canada, American Traveller, 1859
“Blindness and Idiocy”, mentions SGH p. 449, The Christian Examiner, 1848
SGH and Laura Bridgman, medal for “scientific merit” given to SGH by King of Prussia, Christian
Advocate, 1846
Article about blind instructor brought from Paris to work at the Asylum for the Blind, Boston
Weekly Messenger, 1832
Sketch of SGH, p. 30, The New Mirror, 1843
Folder 10: Greek fair, Boston Weekly Messenger, 1833
Statement about SGH’s plan for Nat’l Collegiate Inst. and musical conservatory for blind, 1869
Sketch of SGH’s life/Perkins, House…No. 386, 1869
Mentions address by SGH at 6th annual meeting of American Lyceum on the methods and
means of instructing the blind, Barnard’s Journal of Education, 1864
Article about Freedman’s Commission, including SGH, p 438, Friends’ Intelligencer, 1863
Mentions SGH speech at Bowdoin College, Boston Weekly Messenger, 1833
Lecture by SGH on language to Taunton Lyceum mentioned, Boston County Democrat, 1842
Folder 11: SGH stopped on border of Prussia by a cabinet order, p. 455, The New World, 1843
Folder 12: “Record of Progress”, SGH first pupils, South Boston School, Laura Bridgman, Old and
New, 1875
Folder 13: Address delivered at the opening of the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls, by
Daniel C. Gilman, 1870
“The Suffering Greeks”, appeal for relief, p. 7 speaks of SGH as worker for the cause, 1828, (2
copies)
Folder 14: a memorial tribute to SGH by Oliver Wendell Holmes, p. 464, Atlantic Monthly, 1876
Box 9: Writings about SGH, 1876-1900
Folder 1: Handwritten box inventory, n.d.
Report on public charities of Mass. During century ending 1876, by F. B. Sanborn, SGH p. 14, 55,
63
Folder 2: “A Modern Hero”, by Florence Howe Hall, p. 19 story of SGH’s glories, Wide
Awake, 1890
Article on SGH by JWH, Cambridge Magazine, 1896
Humorous anecdote about SGH and pupil, The Transcript, 1886
Folder 3: Article on SGH, The Phrenological Journal, 1876
Folder 4: sketch of SGH’s life, p. 29-30, and “The Hero” poem about SGH by John G.
Whittier, Record of the Year, 1876 (2 copies)
Article praising SGH, p. 191-195, Unitarian Review, 1876
“Reminiscences of Fugitive-Slave Law Days in Boston” by Austin Bearse, 1880, mentions SGH
p.4, 6, 26, 37,
“Westboro State Reform School Reminiscences”, by Joseph A. Allen, 1877. Mentions SGH p. 6,
48, 54, 83
Folder 5: article on Greek by Sanborn, mentions SGH, Boston Daily Advertiser, 1891
Article on SGH, by F. B. Sanborn, quotes letter to Horace Mann, Boston Daily Advertiser, 1892
Story of SGH’s life by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, p. 812-827, quotes Whittier poem “The Hero”, p. 826827, The Charities Review, 1897
Folder 6: “Here in Boston”, Laura Bridgman and SGH, Boston Post, 1887
Article on memoir of SGH, by JWH, Advertiser, 1876
Mentions SGH and Laura Bridgman, Boston Post, 1890
Speech of Hon. George F. Hoar before U.S. Senate, on presentation of statues of John Winthrop
and Samuel Adams, p. 5 mentions SGH, 1876
Folder 7: Article on memoir of SGH by JWH, The South Boston Press, 1876
Short piece on SGH, The Unitarian, 1887
“The Bible in the Last One Hundred Years” by W. J. R. Taylor, praises SGH for aid in making
printing possible, 1876
SGH quote from years earlier, The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, 1891
SGH name inscribed on wall of the new Massachusetts House of Representatives, unknown
newspaper clipping, 1894
Review of “Dr. S. G. Howe The Philanthropist” by Sanborn, contains sketch of SGH’s life, New
York Daily Tribune, 1891
Folder 8: critical review of Sanborn’s “Dr. S. G. Howe, the Philanthropist”, The Nation, 1891
“Dr. Howe and the Greeks”, Boston Transcript, 1897 (2 copies)
Anecdote about SGH having the gout, newspaper clipping, 1897
Article on a blind child “A Child Born Short”, by Dr. Richards, teacher at Perkins, mentions
SGH, The Mentor, 1898
Article on commemorative exercise and article eulogizing Howe, Boston Evening Transcript,
1899
Article on commemoration of SGH exercises, The Women’s Journal, 1899
Article commemorating SGH’s birthday, Boston Daily Globe, 1899
Box 10: Writings about SGH, 1900-1910
Folder 1: Howe XI: Writings about SGH, 1900-1905, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 2: Howe XI: Writings about SGH, 1900-1905, “SGH Hero in War and Peace” by Bertha
Johnson, p. 353-361,Kindergarten Magazine, 1904
Folder 3: proceedings at celebration of 100th Anniversary of birth of Howe (taken out of S.P.
Hayes library in 1960), 1901
Editorial on SGH, Christian Register, 1901
Article on SGH centennial, Kindergarten Review, 1901
Program of commemorative exercises of 100th anniversary of SGH’s birth, 1901
Letter to the editor on SGH and the blind, The Silent Hoosier, 1901
Review of “Laura Bridgman, Dr. Howe’s Famous Pupil and what he Taught Her”, by Maud Howe
and Florence Howe Hall, Boston Transcript, 1903
“Training Backward Children”, mentions SGH, Boston Transcript, 1903
“Here Comes Howe”, SGH and the blind, Colorado Index, 1904
“Here Comes Howe”, first printing, Sunday Herald, 1903
“A Hero, And Certain Heroines”, review of three books mentioning SGH, Century Magazine,
1904
Letter to editor, SGH and meeting about slavery at Faneuil Hall, Boston Evening Transcript, 1904
“Boston Idealists”, by Sanborn, The Christian Register, 1905
Article mentioning SGH and Laura Bridgman, The Bookman, 1905
Folder 4: Howe XII: Writings about SGH, 1906-1910, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 5: Howe XII: sketches by Geo. Angell, p. 11 mentions SGH founding the Massachusetts
SPCA, The American Humane Education Society, 1908
Folder 6-8: Howe XII: article mentions SGH journals of Greek Revolution, The Republican, 1906
Review of SGH’s “Letters and Journals”, and “The Greek Revolution”, edited by SGH’s daughter
Laura Richards,Woman’s Journal, 1906
SGH mentioned in review of book on Lincoln, Atlantic Monthly, 1906
Review of “Letters and Journals”, Atlantic Monthly, 1906
Review of “Letters and Journals”, The Australian, 1907
Advertisement fly sheet for “Journals and Letters”, 1907
Article on “Letters and Journals”, The Nation, 1907
Review of “Dr. SGH, The Philanthropist”, by Sanborn, Journal of Education, 1907
Sermon by Theodore Parker, mentions SGH and Holmes’ poem in memory of him, The Christian
Register, 1907
Dr. Blackwell (editor of Woman’s Journal) trip to Jamaica, Boston Transcript, 1907 letter from
SGH to Blackwell about Santo Domingo in Howe XX Papers 1870-1876 (Box Folder)
“American Soldiers of Fortune” mentions SGH, Boston Transcript, 1907
Article about “Letters and Journals of SGH”, New York Saturday Review, 1907
Review of “Letters and Journals of SGH”, The National Greek-American Newspaper, 1907
Article on Greek celebration of independence, mentions SGH, Boston Herald, 1908
Article about “Letters and Journals of SGH”, New York Saturday Review, 1908
Article on marble bust of John Brown, mentions SGH, Boston Evening Transcript, 1908
“Three World Famous Educators” mentions SGH, Ohio Chronicle, 1909
Mention of Sanborn’s biography of SGH, Boston Transcript, 1909
“Servant of Humanity” and SGH memorial mentioned, New York Times Saturday Review, 1909
“The Greatest of All American Philanthropists”, Boston Globe, 1909
Long article on SGH about “Letters and Journals” and “Servant of Humanity”, Transcript, 1909
“Dr. Howe’s Journals”, Springfield Republican, 1909
Article with anecdotes about SGH, The Christian Register, 1909
“Samuel G. Howe”, by A. W. Jackson, D. D, p. 934, The Christian Register, 1909
Review of “Servant of Humanity”, Boston Herald, 1909
“A Great Knight of New England”, article on “Letters and Journals”, Boston Herald, 1909
Article on SGH and idiots, etc., Springfield paper, 1909
Folder 9: “A Paladin of Philanthropy”, by Peabody, about SGH, p. 139-151, The Hibbert Journal,
1909
Folder 10: “John Brown and his Eastern Friends”, by Frank P. Stevens, mentions SGH, p.
589, New England Magazine, 1910
“Samuel Gridley Howe”, by E. H. Clement, Journal of Education and Colorado Index, 1909
Review of “The Servant of Humanity” by W. Hoft, The Survey, 1910
“The First Blind Pupils”, The Youth’s Companion, 1909
“A History of the Massachusetts System”, by Sanborn, mentions SGH influence, Children’s
Charities, 1910
Article on Unitarian gathering that mentions SGH, New York Globe, 1910
Article on SGH, Boston Transcript, 1910
Mention of SGH and Sumner correspondence, Boston Transcript, 1910
“The Cadmus of the Blind”, by John T. Faris, The Wellspring, 1910
Folder 11: Review of “Servant of Humanity”, p. 58-60, Outlook for the Blind, 1909 (2 copies)
Review of “Servant of Humanity”, p. 647-650, The Outlook, 1909
Series 3: Published and un-published materials. Howe Memorial Association
materials, Writings about SGH 1911-1919, 1919-1959
Box 11: Published and un-published materials. Howe Memorial Association materials, Writings
about SGH 1911-1919, 1919-1959
Folder 1: Howe Memorial Association materials, 1908-1918
Typed letter from L. B. Lilus, Secretary to Miss J. E. Burnham about certificate of contribution to
the Howe Memorial Association, 1909
“The Proposed Memorial to SGH in South Boston, meeting flyer (2 copies)
Folder 2: Writings about SGH, 1911-1919, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 3-4: Writings about SGH, 1911-1919
Howe memorials, Transcript, 1911
General article on SGH, The Barnard Memorial, 1911 (2 copies
Selections from James Freeman Clark’s address on SGH read by Miss Marrett on Founder’s Day,
Nov. 1911
A memo concerning the plan SGH used for building the cottages at Perkins School for the Blind
by Mrs. Hopkins, 1911
“Dr. S. G. Howe’s Connection with Oral Work”, and letters to editor by Sanborn and L. E.
Richards, regarding SGH and the deaf, The Volta Review, 1911
National Conference of Charities meeting, Sanborn speaks and talks about Howe and
insane, Boston Transcript, 1911
Review of “The Servant of Humanity”, by Noyes, The Volta Review, 1911
Article on SGH inauguration of Massachusetts plan for caring for dependent children, speech by
Dr. Hart,Springfield Union, 1912
Proceedings of the 9th A Summer meeting of Amer. Assoc. Teaching Speech to Deaf, talk by
Sanborn, mentions SGH teaching by articulation, p. 581-584, The Volta Review, 1912
“Dr. SGH A Pioneer Educator of Blind-Deaf”, Ohio Chronicle Supplement, 1913
“A Pioneer of the Blind-Deaf”, The Mentor, 1914
Article on School for Feeble Minded, mentions SGH, Springfield Union, 1914
Article on insane, mentions SGH, Boston Transcript, 1915
Howe Memorial Club, Belmont Tribune, 1915
Article on SGH in Spanish, El Ciego Argentino (The Blind Argentinian), 1915
“The Conversion of Militarism” by F. G. Peabody, mentions SGH, Greece, feeble-minded,
Whittier’s “Hero”, p. 230-231, The Southern Workman, 1915
Article on feeble-minded, mentions SGH, Transcript, 1916
“Educational Work for Blind in the U.S.” picture and article on SGH, p. 16, Bible Training
School, 1916
Article on James Freeman Clarke by F. G. Peabody, quotes letter from SGH to Theodore
Parker, The Christian Register, 1916
Article mentions SGH, anti-slavery and John Brown, Transcript, 1916
Article by Sanborn on public charities, mentions SGH, care for insane, Transcript, 1917
Article on SGH being “lost in the dazzle” of JWH’s brilliance, Transcript, 1917
SGH and Dickens, Transcript, 1917
Article on SGH being unfairly overshadowed by JWH, Transcript, 1917
SGH and “The Listener”, Transcript, 1917
Article on affect war will have on Boston, mentions SGH and civil planning, Transcript, 1918
Article on SGH “The Lafayette of the Greek Revolution”, Boston Globe, 1918
“SGH, M. D., soldier-surgeon in Gk. Revo.” By Ada Manning, also frontispiece of Michael
Anagnos, p. 5-6, 27, The Greek-American Review, 1918
Folder 5: Howe XV Writings about SGH, 1919-1959, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 6-7: Howe XV Writings about SGH, 1919-1959
Art Assoc. of Newport pamphlet, mentions painting by Jane Stuart (Gilbert’s daughter) of SGH
“He was the Cadmus of the Blind”, by E. E. Allen, p. 300-301, The Christian Register, 1921
“SGH” pamphlet by E. Allen revised and reprinted from The Christian Register, 1921
Mention of SGH on list of names on State Hall of Fame, Transcript, 1922
Mention of Greeks and SGH, Transcript, 1922
Article on death of Mrs. Charles Knowlton, mentions work she did with SGH, The Christian
Register, 1922
Mention of Whittier’s poem, “The Hero”, New York Times Book Review, 1922
“Dickens and Dr. Howe”, by E. E. Allen, p. 1, The Beacon, 1925
Founder’s Day at Perkins to honor SGH, Outlook for the Blind, 1926
Piece on SGH by Laura Richards, Outlook for the Blind, 1926
Claim against Howe Memorial Association, Boston Post, 1926
Howe Memorial Association sued, Herald, 1926
List of friends of Charles Dickens buried at Mt. Auburn, Herald, 1926
Article by Cabot, paragraph on SGH, p. 287, December Graphic Survey, 1928
“Greeks Honor Dr. Samuel Howe”, Newport Herald, 1930
Mass State Exhibit Tercentenary 1630-1930, Dept. of Public Welfare, First Board of State
Charities 1803, mentions SGH and Sanborn, 1930
“SGH” by Anna Gardner Fish, p. 3, The Lantern, 1936
Article on Mann, mentions SGH, Boston Post, 1947
Sketch of SGH by Dr. Chase, M. D., Providence Bulletin, 1948
“SGH as Phrenologist” by Harold Schwartz, p. 644-651, American Historical Review, 1952
SGH and Bridgman, The Lantern, 1953
SGH papers, p. 7, Massachusetts Historical Society Miscellany, 1958
SGH connection with John Brown, Boston Sunday Herald, 1959
Greeks honor SGH at Independence banquet, Boston Globe, 1927
Folder 8: “Dr. Howe’s Office Boy”, recollections told by Rev. H. A. Dunham, 1928
Folder 9: Bibliography: papers and sources quoted for reference to SGH’s creeds on religion
prepared for Mr. Allen, 1921
Folder 10: Typewritten talk on SGH given by Mrs. E. E. Allen, n. d.
Series 4: Personal Papers and Correspondence
Box 12: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1820-1870
Folder 1: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1820-1840, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 2: Letter from Lafayette to SGH, 1832 (3 copies)
Folder 3: Copy of Howe’s diary while in Greece, 1827
Folder 4: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1820-1840
SGH’s letter to Elijah J. Hamlin written from Brown Univ., re: religion
Letter from James Fenimore Cooper to SGH from Paris, 1832
Letter from SGH to Dr. Percival requesting the he contribute material to New England
Magazine, 1834
Letter to B. French of New Hampshire regarding entrance for pupils into Perkins and need for
care of Blind in New Hampshire, 1835
Letter from SGH to Mr. Lathrop to thanks for donation to printing fund, 1835
Letter from SGH to Charles Goff, regarding printing of New Testament, 1836
Letter from Wm. S. Stone to SGH, says he has written an article about SGH, 1836
Letter from SGH to Mr. Chapin, 1839 in answer to question about instructing the blind, 1839
Folder 5: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1840-1850, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 6-8: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1840-1850
Letter to SGH from Geo. Combe, praises SGH and speaks of phrenology, 1840
Copy of letter from Henry Thoreau, to Perkins/SGH, seeking employment, 1841
Letter from SGH to Miss Metcalf, 1841
Letter from SGH to Miss Metcalf in Providence, Lurena Brackett’s decision not to return to
Perkins, 1842
SGH letter to Mr. Bartlet Dudley, invitation to Lurena Brackett to return to Perkins, 1842
Letter from SGH to Dr. Dixon of S. Carolina about visiting and exhibiting in S. Carolina for
purpose of raising interest in education of blind, 1841
Letter from SGH to James Hanford Esq. on different alphabet characters for the blind, 1841
Letter from SGH to editor of No. British Advertiser, article by John Allston on printing for blind in
which SGH was misrepresented and misquoted, 1841
Letter to SGH from Horace Mann, Mann’s success, teaching of arithmetic, etc., 1842, 1845,
1848
Letter to SGH from T. Carlyle (from London), report of Perkins Inst., Laura Bridgman, 1842
Letter to SGH from James M. Barnard, requesting copies of SGH’s article on insanity for
circulation in Europe, etc., 1843
Letter to Samuel Ward from Charles Sumner on SGH’engagement, 1843
Letter from H. B. Cleveland to Charles Sumner on SGH’s engagement, 1843
Letter from SGH to Longfellow on SGH’s engagement, 1843
Letter to SGH from Charles Sumner, re: birth of SGH’s first child, Samuel Ward, etc., 1844
Letter to SGH from George Sumner, from Paris, re: Laura Bridgman, publication of SGH’s article
in France, etc., 1845
Letter to SGH from Maria Edgeworth, Ireland, re: a) report of Laura Bridgman, essay on
Education and treatment of child’s conscience, L. B.’s religious instruction, children’s stories by
Edgeworth, 1845
Letter to SGH from George Combe in Brussels, re: 13th Annual report of Perkins, Laura
Bridgman, Oliver Caswell. Mentions report “refusing black children”, suggests that SGH teach
phrenology to Laura B. talks about nature of God, 1845
Letter from SGH to Mr. Chapin re: printing of a general encyclopedia for blind, 1845
Letter to SGH from N. Y. Inst. for Deafmutes re: education of same, 1845
Letter to SGH by L. H. Bracebridge (Englishman) re: Laura Bridgman, prison discipline, 1845
Note to SGH from Amos Laurence, 1846
Letter to SGH from Sam Auus, re: Rhode Island legislative assembly, 1846
Letter from Ms. Tibbath re: bill SGH wanted passed, 1846
Group of letters re: National Library for the Blind, 1846
Letter to Howe from Vaughan of Inst. for Blind in Philadelphia re: Library for blind, 1846
Letter to SGH from George Sumner, Paris- mentions forthcoming marriage of Annie, JWG’s
youngest sister, 1846
Letter from Edward Jarvis to ? re: Sumner and an article for the North American, 1849
Letter from SGH to Miss [Howitt] re: Laura Bridgman, 1849
Folder 9: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1850-1870, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder: 10-13 SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1850-1870
Letter from J. Lieber to SGH, 1850
Rough draft of letter from SGH to Hon. W. Appleton, re: reform schools for girls, 1850
Letter to SGH from Theodore Parker, re: SGH’s remark that Parker lacked religion, 1851
Letter to SGH from Florence Nightingale, re: plight of Germans, Catholic and Protestant church
in England, 1851
Letter to SGH from Charles Sumner, re: the paper, Commonwealth, 1852
Letters to SGH from Louis Kossuth, re: Hungarian fund, Death of his mother, Hungary’s plight,
1852
Letter to SGH from Florence Nightingale, 1852
Letter from SGH to [Downer], asking advice about “letting” his house, 1854
Poem about SGH by unknown author, 1855
Letter to SGH from Samuel Lyman, re: Mann’s death, 1859
Letter from SGH to Parker, re: Mann’s death, 1859
Letter [to SGH] from Theo. Parker, joking about the fact he hasn’t heard from SGH. Letter in
style of memorial poem as if SGH were dead, 1859
Letter from Charles Sumner to SGH, from Paris, re: war between France and Austria, Napoleon,
“George’s Oration”, statue of Mann, 1859
Letters from C. Sumner to SGH, statue of Mann, John Brown, death of SGH’s youngest son,
1860
Letter from C. Sumner to SGH, Santo Domingo, civil war, 1863
Letter from SGH for Miss Dillingham to use in finding her brother during Civil War, 1862
Letter from [SGH] concerning history and objections of the school [Perkins], 1865
Letter from SGH to Anagnos, re: supplies for Cretans, 1867
Note to parent about son who has fits, 1868
Letter to SGH from Mrs. M. S. Loring, aid for women’s reformatory and a rough draft of SGH’s
reply, 1869
Two letters to unknown recipients from SGH about Perkins fundraising, 1869
Folder 14: Questionnaire to establish pattern of heredity in Blindness, 1853
Folder 15: “Early History of Printing for the Blind in America” by SGH, copied by hand from the
letter books at the Perkins Institution, 1854 (photocopied)
Box 13: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1870-1876, undated, and Samana Bay Co.,
Santo Domingo materials.
Folder 1: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1870-1876, handwritten index, n. d.
Folder 2-11: SGH Personal Papers and Correspondence, 1870-1876
Letter from SGH to Mr. and Mrs. Hazard re: their “insane” daughter Gertrude, 1871
Letter to SGH from George Finlay, from Athens, re: Santo Domingo, government in Greece,
1871
Letter to Mrs. Knowlton (SGH’s one time secretary) about her ill health, 1872
Letter from SGH to Mr. May, re: an argument Mr. May had with SGH’s clerk, 1872
Letters and notes concerning Samana Bay including correspondence with Spoffard, Capt. Lowry,
and a letter from SGH to Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, USA, 1873-1874
Letter from SGH to F. J. Campbell, 1874
Letters from SGH to Dr. Blackwell, re: Samana Bay Co. and a Mr. Spoffard. Dr. Blackwell was, in
1907, senior editor of Woman’s Journal, see clipping 1907, Boston Transcript in box about SGH,
1906-1910, 1874
Letter from SGH to Downer, asking help for SGH’s son-in-law, Hall, 1875
Letter from SGH to Downer, 1875
Copy of SGH’s conversation with Sanborn, July 22, 1875, speaks of being in Paris and seeing
James Fenimore Cooper, Lafayette, and re: Dr. Fisher and decision to work for blind in 1831,
1875
Proposal to annex Santo Domingo, defended with facts and figures, by unknown author (not in
SGH’s handwriting)
Folder 12-14: Howe XXI, Personal Papers and Correspondence, no date
SGH “philosophical ramblings” o the senses—taste, smell, etc. of Laura Bridgman
Letter from SGH to Horace Mann “valuable and interesting copy of a letter written assumed
from context to Horace Mann by Dr. Howe in his later life, in which he humbly points out that
his motivating force for which he had been acclaimed a “hero” etc., was ignorance of the
course of events, an adventurous spirit and “selfishness”
SGH letter to unknown recipient about school year at Perkins in the early years, no date
Letter to mother of boy at Perkins about his possible withdrawal
Rough draft of letter about State Industrial School for Girls
Folder 15: SGH’s translation of Diderot’s “Letter on the Blind”
Folder 16: Letter to SGH from A. M. Symmes, n. d.
Folder 17: Misc. lists and documents
Box 14: Box: Folder 1-27: Correspondence to SGH, 1838-1839
Folder 1: “A”
Ackerly, Benj.
Appleton, Sam M.,
Anid
Allston, John
Akerly, Samuel
[Auz], Dr. William M.
Folder 2: “B”
Baldwin, A.
Ball, John
[Bartley], Roberts
Blagden, Rev. Mr.
Bower, B.
Bible Society House (British)
Bigelow, John P.
Briggs, E. N.
Bowditch, N. H.
Broad, Samford L.
Bumstead, J. F.
Folder 3: “C”
Combe, Geo
Cushing, J. P.
Curtis, Thos
Colson, C. H.
Coygesdoll, Joseph
Geo Cox & Co.
Folder 4: “D”
De la Sagna, [R.]
Dennison, A. L.
DeWitt, Archibald
Dunbar, Henry W.
Folder 5: “E”
Edwards, [Murry (Governor?)]
Everett, Edward (Governor of Massachusetts), see Pierce, Delano, M. D.
Folder 6: “F”
Fearing (Physician)
Fearing, Mary
Fletcher, Richard
Friedlander, Julius R.
[Fusiche], Marshall
Folder 7: “G”
Gardener, O.
Girdler, Capt. R.
Gleason, Olive, see Pierce
Goff, Charles
Gold, Martha
Gutzlaff, Mary
Folder 8: “H”
Hall, Mr.
Harding, Jane
Hardwell, D.
Folder 9: “J”
Jeffries, John
Folder 10: “K”
Kimball, Caleb
Folder 11: “L”
Laurence, Abbott
Lovejoy, [Alia]
Lowe (Concert at Gloucester—financial info)
Lyon, G. P.
Lyon, Moses
Folder 12: “M”
[Messinga], D.
McKean, Jos M.
Folder 13: “N”
New York Institution for the Blind
Nelson, H.
Folder 14: “O”
Otis, H. G.
Folder 15: “P”
Patten, Isaac
Patten, [J./T.]
Penniman, A. W.
Pierce, Delano, M. D.
Pickering, John Esq.
Pijani, Pietro
Phillips
Phillips, T.
Plummer, Abigail
Plummer, Wm. S
Folder 16: “Perkins”, see also folder 25
Perkins, [Col. Thomas Handasyd]
Perkins, Dr. [A. M.?]
Folder 17: “Q”
Quincy, Josiah Jr.
Folder 18: “R”
Rhoads, Joshua
Robertson, Sarah
Rupele, G. R.
Folder 19: “S”
Sigourney, L. H.
Sallandet, T. H.
[Shaw], L.
Smith, Betsy, see Everett and Fearing
Folder 20: “T, U, V”
Tallant, Nancy
Tennery, Wm. [J]
Tenney, T. [A.]
[Thorn], James
Vose, Elijia
Folder 21: “W, X, Y, Z”
Weld, Theodore D.
Winthrop, Rob C.
Walton, John
John Whipple Debt Society
Folder 22: List of Annual Reports and other volumes in the Perkins “Blindiana” library
Folder 23: Unreadable
Folder 24: Mount Washington Sale
Folder 25: Copy of letter from Col. Perkins to H. G. Otis
Folder 26: from H. G. Otis to J. K. Mills
Folder 27: from Theodore Lyman to Osias Goodwin
Box 15 and 16: Greek Relief Committee materials, 1867.
Folder 1-14: Correspondence about the Greek Relief Committee formerly bound in a volume.
Letters have a brittle adhesive strip along one edge. Many of the letters are regarding
donations of money.
Series 5: Photocopied research materials and In-Look Archives Survey materials,
1980-2008
Box 17: Research Materials, and misc. 1990-2008
Folder 1: Archives Survey materials, 2002
Folder 2: Perkins’ history materials
Folder 3: “Silhouettes of Eminent Americans, 1839-1844”, by Andrew Oliver with pages on
Laura Bridgman, Francis Lieber, Thomas Perkins, Oliver Caswell (deafblind)
Folder 4: Directors’ Memorial Exercises, 1992
Folder 5: Dickens’ Quarterly, “Charles Dickens and SGH”, 1991
Folder 6: SGH correspondence transcripts, American Printing House for the Blind, 1993
Folder 7: Letter of Introduction for SGH, American Embassy, France, 1831 (photocopy), with
accession info, 2008
Folder 8: Photocopied research materials, letter from Fernald School to Ken Stuckey (research
librarian at Perkins)
Series 6: Howe family materials, oversize materials, photographs, 3D objects
Box 18: Howe family materials
Folder 1-3: Howe family papers/ Financial Info, Estate of Joseph N. Howe, Fr., SGH, Trustee,
1837-1868, bulk 1866
Box 19: Howe family materials
Folder 1-3: Misc. Howe Papers and Clippings, Howe family collection, clippings, 1911-1943
Folder 4: Howe family collection, correspondence: Julia Romana Anagnos, Maud Howe Elliot,
Laura Howe Richards, H. H. Richards, 1880-1961
Folder 5: Howe family collection, writings: Maud Howe Elliot, Laura Howe Richards, Henry
Marion Howe, 1922-1956
Folder 6: “History of the Fernald School”, Chapter by Laura E. Richards, 1940
Folder 7: “The Yellow House Papers. The Laura E. Richards Collection. An Inventory and
Historical Analysis”, 1972
Box 20: Howe family materials donated by Camilla McRory (Howe Family descendant)
Folder 1: Accession letters, correspondence, 1988, 2010, 2011
Folder 2: “A Modern Hero”, article on SGH, Wide Awake, 1890
Folder 3: “Defects in the Education of American Girls”, article on JWH, The Chautauquan, 1888
Folder 4: Envelope identify textiles created by JWH
Folder 5: Ring created from Julia Romana Howe Anagnos and JWH heirlooms
Folder 6: Perkins’ First Family exhibit layout, 2012
On Exhibit: Howe family objects in the Perkins’ First Family exhibit in the Perkins’
Museum located in the Howe Building. Many of these items Donated by Camilla McRory
great, great grand-daughter of S.G. & J.W. Howe
Bust of Samuel Gridley Howe, Plaster, no date
Plaster relief sculpture of Julia Ward Howe by F. Skipp, n. d.
Lace Cap. This cap was a signature accessory of Julia Ward Howe in her later years, and nearly
every image of her portrays her wearing it. Donated by Camilla McRory great, great grand-
daughter of S.G. & J.W. Howe
Pistol, Inlaid flint-lock pistol that belonged to Samuel Gridley Howe, who fought in the Greek
Revolution between 1824-1827
Majolica Lamp, n. d.
Metal Candlestick holder, n. d.
Metal Candelabra, n. d.
Box 21: Oversize materials photographs, prints, posters, documents
Laura Richards at 18, photographed mailed from The Horn Book to Nelson Coon, Perkins’
librarian in 1956
Resignation scroll of SGH from the Commonwealth of Mass Board of State Charities, 1875
Certificate of donation to the Howe Memorial Association (color poster)
Map to Mount Auburn Cemetery
“The Man Who Saved Millions from Pain” William Morton- surgical anesthesia, newspaper
clipping The Sunday American, 1912
SGH manuscript, “for the works of a Dwelling House on Mount Washington, South Boston”, n.
d.
SGH and the Poles, Columbian Centinel, 1832
Box 22: Oversize Materials, Howe Artifacts
Bible presented to Grovenoer Taft Murdock by SGH in 1864, it was used by SGH for many years
at Perkins when the school was located in South Boston.
Hall of Fame plaque, American Printing House for the Blind, Leaders and Legends of the
Blindness Field, SGH inducted 2002
Bowl- Import China that belonged to SGH and used by him before his marriage to JWH in 1843.
The China was presented to Perkins in January, 1984 by Mrs. Margaret H. McRory, Dr. Howe’s
Great Granddaughter.
SGH’s box containing seven straight razors. Each of the razors is inscribed with a day of the
week.
Diary of Samuel G. Howe, January- February, 1871. Kept during his visit to Santo Domingo as
part of the Government Commission investigating annexation.
Box 23: Howe family candlestick (1 of 2- other on exhibit)
Box 24: Howe family china, 11 small plates and 2 serving bowls, fruit motif with scalloped
edges, labeled “832” on verso. Donated by Susan McRory, a descendant of JWH and SGH, 2013
Series 7: Books and bound materials
On Shelf: Books, bound pamphlets, scrapbooks, notable by scarcity or provenance
“Letter Upon the Blind” by Diderot, translated by SGH and printed in Boston Line Type at
Perkins, 1857
Dr. Howe’s Writings: “Mass. School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth”, Reports 1-28 (2
volumes)
Dr. Howe’s Writings: Perkins Institution for the Blind, Reports 1-44 (3 volumes)
Dr. Howe’s Writings: Pamphlets. Education and Deaf-Mutes
Dr. Howe’s Writings: Board of State Charities, Reports 2-10, 1866-1874
Dr. Howe’s Writings: Board of State Charities, Reports 2-9, 1866-1872
Dr. Howe’s Writings: “Miscellaneous”.
“Scraps”: Scraps Written at Sundry Times and On Divers [sic] Occasions by Samuel G Howe
[Quondam Keigugyos] Vol. 1. Excerpts of published materials including annual reports. Front
cover labeled M. Anagnos.
Newspaper scrapbook mostly about Greece and the Cretans
S. G. Howe “Education of the Blind”, N. E. Magazine, 1833 (3 copies)
Scrapbook: 100th Birthday of S. G. Howe (2 copies)
“Memoire of H. Perkins”
“The Cretan Refugees and Their American Helpers”, Dr. S. G. Howe
Bound volume of “The Cretan”, 1868-1869
“When I Was Your Age”, Laura E. Richards, 1894
“To Arms! Songs of the Great War”, Laura E. Richards, 1917
“Two Noble Lives”, Laura E. Richards, 1911 (2 copies)
“Memoir of Dr. Howe”, Julia Ward Howe, 1876
Mass. School for the Feeble Minded, Reports 1-40, 1846-1887 (2 copies)
“An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution”, 1828 (5 copies, one belonging to Florence Howe
Hall)
“The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe: The Greek Revolution” (Vol. 1), with notes
and preface by F. B. Sanborn, 1906
“The Journals and Letters of Samuel Gridley Howe: The Servant of Humanity” (Vol. 2), with
notes and preface by F. B. Sanborn, 1906 (2 copies)
“Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl”, Mary Swift
Lamson, 1879 (2 copies)
“Notes on the United States of North America” Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, George Combe, 1841
“Samuel Gridley Howe”, Laura E. Richards, 1935 (2 copies)
“Stepping Westward: The Story of a Long Life”, Laura E. Richards, 1931
“Dreamers of the American Dream”, Steward H. Holbrook, 1957 (Waterhouse)
“Anatomical Observations on the Brain and Several Sense-Organs of the Blind Deaf-Mute Laura
Dewey Bridgman” (bound photocopies)
Unknown publication with section on “Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1799-1820 (bound photocopies)
“Merchant Prince of Boston: Colonel T. H. Perkins, 1764-1854”, Carl Seaburg and Stanley
Paterson, 1971
“Howe Genealogies”, Daniel Wait Howe and Gilman Bigelow Howe, New England Historic
Genealogical Society, 1929 (2 copies)
Gordon’s History of the Greek Revolution and Campaigns, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, 1844
“Recollections of Seventy Years”, F. B. Sanborn, 1909