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trouble ([personal profile] trouble) wrote2011-06-15 12:44

Letter to the Asylum, 1921

Found attached to an application to the Halifax School for the Blind:

Grant Falls, NB
27-October, 1921

Halifax School for the Blind,
C. F. Fraser, Supt.

Hon dear sir:--

The applicant, to my mind, is only short-sighted, is very unruly and is lacking extensively in grey matter (brain cells).

He will never become a poet, an orator, a musician or a signer [sic].

I would advise you to leave him with his father who is not more gifted than the son.

Yours truly,
Rev. T. [Redacted], D. D.


Yes, this was in the pile of rejected applications, but none of the rejected applications have notes indicating why they were rejected.

ETA: The very next application has someone, presumably the applicant's mother, writing across it "Will not leave her her. Go away from me now as she is not in a fit condition." :( It's like she was bullied into filling out the application.
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[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-06-15 15:45 (UTC)(link)
...I think the Reverand taught me for year 6 maths.
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[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-06-15 15:50 (UTC)(link)
We should. He's not invited to tea.
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[personal profile] jackandahat 2011-06-15 15:50 (UTC)(link)
Also, I know "History: Blind history snippets" means history of blind people, but I'm reading it like blind items in magazines - especially given you keep complaining about only having partial information...
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[personal profile] staticnonsense 2011-06-17 18:09 (UTC)(link)
*flail* bc of course being near or far sighted doesn't count for visual impairments!

-_- *throws rubber duckies at the reverend's feet*