Item 5 - Letter from William Pyke Hargood Hutchinson to Lord Houghton

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Reference code

HOUG/E/K/1/5

Title

Letter from William Pyke Hargood Hutchinson to Lord Houghton

Date(s)

  • 23 May 1870 (Creation)

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Extent and medium

4ff; with visiting card (printed with MS annotation).

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Scope and content

Blurton P[arsonage]. - Houghton's recent endorsement of sign-teaching for the dead and dumb; teaching by word of mouth is more effective; his own son lost hearing through scarlet fever, and has been taught to speak by [unnamed] teacher of the deaf andread more

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