A Beacon For The Blind

A Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General. Fawcett (1833-1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist who was blinded in a shooting accident aged 25. This biography published in 1914 is by the American welfare worker who founded the New York Association for the Blind.

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