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From Paul Proust de la Gironière, Vingt années aux Philippines, 1853.

From "Biographie de Philippe Roos," appended to L'Architecture et la peinture en Europe, 1853.

In 'Three Graces of Christian Science' Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), who was herself hard of hearing, tells the histories of a number of deaf, dumb, or blind children, and then goes on to detail three attempts to help such children. Her most extensive history is of Edward Meystre, a deaf and blind boy who was taught by M. Hirzel at the Blind Asylum at Lausanne. Hirzel, while teaching Edward to speak, rewarded him with cigars. Dickens added a footnote to Miss Martineau's account of the boy.

Harry Stone; © Bloomington and Indiana University Press, 1968. DJO gratefully acknowledges permission to reproduce this material.

Motivated by Victor Cousin's articles on Mme. de Sablé in Revue des deux mondes.

Based largely on John Dunton's The Life and Errors of John Dunton: Late Citizen of London; Written by Himself in Solitude (1705).