A BEACON FOR THE BLIND

Photo. Emery Walker PROFESSOR AND MRS. FAWCETT From the painting by Ford Madox Brown, now in the National Portrait Gallery

A BEACON FOR THE BLIND

BEING A LIFE OF

HENRY FAWCETT

THE BLIND POSTMASTER-GENERAL

BY

WINIFRED HOLT

‘He that is greatest among you

let him be servant of all.’

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

1914

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

TO THE FIVE ON TWO CONTINENTS

WHO MADE ITS WRITING POSSIBLE——

IN ENGLAND, B. T. AND F. DE G. E.

IN AMERICA, E. H. B., H. H.

AND R. H.

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