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little bird had already sung the good news in my ear; but it was doubly pleasant

to have it straight from you.

It would be splendid to have The Great Round World printed in “language that
can be felt.” I doubt if any one who enjoys the wondrous privilege of seeing can
have any conception of the boon such a publication as you contemplate would be
to the sightless.

To be able to read for one’s self what is being willed, thought and done in the
world—the world in whose joys and sorrows, failures and successes one feels
the keenest interest—that would indeed be a happiness too deep for words. I

trust that the effort of The Great Round World to bring light to those who sit in
darkness will receive the encouragement and support it so richly deserves.

I doubt, however, if the number of subscribers to an embossed edition of The
Great Round World would ever be large; for I am told that the blind as a class
are poor. But why should not the friends of the blind assist The Great Round

World, if necessary?

Surely there are hearts and hands ever ready to make it possible for generous
intentions to be wrought into noble deeds.

Wishing you godspeed in an undertaking that is very dear to my heart, I am, etc.

TO MISS NINA RHOADES

Cambridge, Sept. 25, 1901.

…We remained in Halifax until about the middle of August….

Day after day the Harbor, the warships, and the park kept us busy thinking and

feeling and enjoying…. When the Indiana visited Halifax, we were invited to go