VI. Additional Communications respecting the Blind and Deaf 

 Boy, James Mitchell. By John Gordon, M. D. F. R. S. 

 Edin. 



(Read Nov. 20. 1815,; 



THE following circumstances respecting the Blind and Deaf 

 Boy, James Mitchell, have come to my knowledge since 

 the publication of Professor Stewart's Memoir ; and I doubt 

 not but the Society will think them worthy of being recorded. 

 They are derived from the most accurate and authentic of all 

 sources, the boy's sister, Miss Mitchell. 



In the month of April 1814, Mr Parker, an English gen- 

 tleman, (distinguished, as I have since learned, for his active 

 benevolence,) did me the honour to wait upon me, to commu- 

 nicate a plan for the instruction of young Mitchell, which had 

 some time before occurred to him, and which he was very de- 

 sirous should be put to the test of experiment. This method 

 seemed in no respect inconsistent with those principles which 

 in all circumstances appear to regulate the acquisition of lan- 

 guage; and I therefore expressed my willingness, to promote, 

 by every means in my power, the object which Mr Parker 

 had in view. 



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