Excerpt from Memoir of Samuel Breck, Late President of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind IN compliance with the request of the Board of Managers, I have prepared the following Memoir of our venerable friend and President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1877 Original Publisher: S. Low, Marston, Searle,