Extracts from three letters to Mrs. T. H. Hale:
—Mrs. T. H. Hale: Dear Madam,—I understand that you can cure blindness. I have an eye made blind by gunpowder. There is a film over it and all I can see is a shadow as I move my hand back and forth before it, a short distance away.
—My eye is gaining in sight and strength.
—Can distinguish small spots on cards and read the headings of newspapers. I am so glad that I shall not have to go to the Eye and Ear Infirmary of Boston, to have the operation performed, that my doctor said I must. He was going down with me to see the city doctors cut and slash at my poor eye. But I like your treatment best.
