The Story of Little Jakey

by Helen Aldrich De Kroyft

$40 · Offered by Good Books in the Woods

Hardcover, Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879. Very Good. Helen Aldrich De Kroyft 1818-1915 was a blind American author. Her husband died on their wedding day and a month later she woke up blind. Helen spent some time at the New York Institution for the Blind and learned to write across a page using a card for guidance. This book is presented as the true story of one of the blind children at the Institution, Little Jakey.

• Binding: Hardcover

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