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TO MR. WILLIAM WADE

Cambridge, February 2, 1901.

…By the way, have you any specimens of English braille especially printed for
those who have lost their sight late in life or have fingers hardened by long toil,
so that their touch is less sensitive than that of other blind people? I read an
account of such a system in one of my English magazines, and I am anxious to
know more about it. If it is as efficient as they say, I see no reason why English
braille should not be adopted by the blind of all countries. Why, it is the print
that can be most readily adapted to many different languages. Even Greek can be

embossed in it, as you know. Then, too, it will be rendered still more efficient by
the “interpointing system,” which will save an immense amount of space and
paper. There is nothing more absurd, I think, than to have five or six different
prints for the blind….

This letter was written in response to a tentative offer from the editor of The

Great Round World to have the magazine published in raised type for the blind,
if enough were willing to subscribe.

It is evident that the blind should have a good magazine, not a special magazine

for the blind, but one of our best monthlies, printed in embossed letters. The
blind alone could not support it, but it would not take very much money to make
up the additional expense.

To THE GREAT ROUND WORLD

Cambridge, Feb. 16, 1901.

The Great Round World,

New York City.

Gentlemen: I have only to-day found time to reply to your interesting letter. A