TYPEWRITING MACHINES FOR THE BLIND. rTo THE Eraroa or Tim
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Sra,—Probably some of your readers have typewriting machines for which they have no further use, and in such cases I venture to hope that they may be sent to this Association, and through it given to poor deserving blind persons whose only ready way of communicating with their sighted friends is by means of type- writers. The typewriting machine was invented primarily for the use of the blind, and the legibility of the writing and the facility with which it could be performed were the reasons for its adoption by sighted persons. It would therefore be very fitting that discarded machines should be bestowed upon the sightless poor, of whom there are many thousands in the United Kingdom alone. Typewriting is taught in most, if not all, schools for the blind, but from lack of means few blind people are able to obtain machines when they leave the schools. All kinds of machines in working order would be very gratefully received and acknowledged. —I am, Sir, &a., 206 Great Portland Street, W.
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