SOURCES
CHAPTER 1. LAURENT CLERC
The Diary of Laurent Clerc’s Voyage from France to America in 1816 (Hartford, Conn.: American School for the Deaf, 1952), 5–12, 18, 22. Laurent Clerc Papers no. 68, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
“Laurent Clerc,” in Tribute to Gallaudet: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character, and Services, of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, with an Appendix, 2nd ed. (New York: F. C. Brownell, 1859), 107–8.
Laurent Clerc Papers no. 69, transcription by Clerc from the Albany Daily Advertiser, Nov. 12, 1816, and from the Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser, Dec. 11, 1816. Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
An Address Written by Mr. Clerc: And Read by His Request at a Public Examination of the Pupils in the Connecticut Asylum, before the Governour and Both Houses of the Legislature, 28th May, 1818 (Hartford, Conn.: Hudson and Co., printers, 1818).
Letter to Frederick A. P. Barnard, 1835, Laurent Clerc Papers no. 38, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
“Laurent Clerc,” in Tribute to Gallaudet: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character, and Services, of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, with an Appendix, 2nd ed. (New York: F. C. Brownell, 1859), 102–12.
CHAPTER 2. JAMES NACK
“The Minstrel Boy,” in The Legend of the Rocks, and Other Poems (New York: E. Conrad, 1827), 58–61.
“What the Deaf and Dumb are before Instruction,” in Tales of the Deaf and Dumb, with Miscellaneous Poems (Newark, N.J.: Benjamin Olds, 1935), 47–50.
“On the Early Domestic Education of Children Born Deaf, or Who Have Lost Their Hearing by Sickness or Accident,” in Tales of the Deaf and Dumb, 7–28, 35–39, 42–44, 46.
“The Orphan Mute,” in Tales of the Deaf and Dumb, 152–81.
“Emma,” in Tales of the Deaf and Dumb, 196–97.
CHAPTER 4. JOHN CARLIN
“The Mute’s Lament,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 1 (1847): 15–16.
“Advantages and Disadvantages of the Use of Signs,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 4 (1852): 49–57.
“The National College for Mutes,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 6 (1854): 175–83.
CHAPTER 5. EDMUND BOOTH
Letter to Mary Booth, Jan. 21, 1852, reprinted in Edmund Booth, Forty-Niner: The Life Story of a Deaf Pioneer (Stockton, Calif.: San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society, 1953), 50–52.
“On Emigration to the West by Deaf Mutes,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 10 (1858): 46–51.
CHAPTER 6. ADELE M. JEWEL
A Brief Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (Being Deaf and Dumb) (Jackson, Mich.: Daily Citizen Steam Printing House, c. 1860).
CHAPTER 7. LAURA REDDEN SEARING
“A Few Words about the Deaf and Dumb,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 10 (1858): 177–81.
“Belle Missouri,” reprinted in Jack Gannon, Deaf Heritage: A Narrative History of Deaf America (Silver Spring, Md.: National Association of the Deaf, 1981), 7.
CHAPTER 8. 1850 GRAND REUNION
“Testimonial of the Deaf Mutes of New England to Messrs. Gallaudet and Clerc,” in Tribute to Gallaudet: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life, Character, and Services, of the Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, with an Appendix, 2nd ed. (New York: F. C. Brownell, 1859), 189–203.
CHAPTER 9. DEDICATION OF THE GALLAUDET MONUMENT
“Ceremonies at the Completion of the Gallaudet Monument,” American Annals for the Deaf and Dumb 7 (1854): 23–26, 31–44.
CHAPTER 10. DEBATE OVER A DEAF COMMONWEALTH
John J. Flournoy, Edmund Booth, et al., “Scheme for a Commonwealth of the Deaf and Dumb,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 8 (1856): 120–125; 10 (1858): 40–45, 72–90, 140–56, 212–15.
Laurent Clerc, cited in “Proceedings of the Third Convention of the New England Gallaudet Association of Deaf-Mutes,” American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb 10 (October 1858): 212–15.
CHAPTER 11. INAUGURATION OF THE NATIONAL DEAF-MUTE COLLEGE
Laurent Clerc, “Address by Laurent Clerc, A.M.,” in Inauguration of the College for the Deaf and Dumb, at Washington, District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.: Gideon and Pearson, 1864), 41–43.
John Carlin, “Oration: A College for the Deaf and Dumb,” in Inauguration, 45–55.