Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 52310-h.htm or 52310-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52310/52310-h/52310-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52310/52310-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cu31924028315400 A BEACON FOR THE BLIND [Illustration: _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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FOREWORD BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE VISCOUNT BRYCE LATE BRITISH AMBASSADOR TO AMERICA