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A Letter of Dr. John Waliis, 
{Geom. Prof. Oxon, and F.R.S. ) 
to Mr. Thomas Beverly; Concern- 
ing his Method for Inftrucling Per- 
fons Deaf and Dumb. 
SIR, 
IHave recieved your Letter of Sm, ii. Wherln you tell me the cafe 
of a Family, wherein you are concerned j which is really very fad. 
Of Eight Children now living, Five are Deaf and Dumb. ( And, I 
fuppofe, Dumb becaufe Deaf. ) 
You defire my Directions , How beft to fupply that T>e(ed: : Having 
had fome Acquaintance ( I underftand ) with Mr. ^exander Popham^ 
( who, I think, is yet living, ) whom ( being born Deaf) I taught (about 
four or five and thirty years ago) to Speak diftindlly, (though I doubt, 
he may now have forgot much of it j ) And , to Underftand a Lan- 
guage, fo as to exprefs his mind ( tolerably well ) by Writing, and to 
underftand what is w^ritten to him by others. As I had, before, taught 
Mr. Dcmid JVhaley : Who was Deaf alfo ; but is lately dead. 
Others , who were not Deaf, but had great Lnpediraents in their 
Speech, ( who Stuttered extremely, or who have not been able to pro- 
nounce fome Letters,.) I have taught to Speak very Diftindly, and to 
pronounce thofe letters which before they could not ; So as perfe(Sy to con- 
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