[164] There is, however, a case reported before this of a deaf person who had received instruction, though hardly in America. This was a woman who was blind as well as deaf, and who lived at Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1637. She had come from England; but whether or not she had been taught before the coming on of her affliction, we are left in ignorance. All that we are sure of is that communication could be had with her. See John Winthrop, "History of New England", ed. 1853, i., p. 281; _Annals_, xlv., 1900, p. 91. [165] _Association Review_, ii., 1900, p. 34 ("Historical Notes concerning the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf"). No little debt is owed to Dr. Alexander Graham Bell for his researches into the early attempts at instruction in America. [166] _American Historical Review_, vi., 1900, pp. 65, 81, 82, 95. See also _Association Review_, ii., 1900, p. 527. [167] See A. G. Bell, "A Philanthropist of the Last Century Identified as a Boston Man", 1900; _North American Review_, civ., 1867, p. 512; _Annals_, i., 1848, p. 189; ix., 1857, p. 169; xii., 1860, p. 258; xiii., 1861, p. 1; _Association Review_, ii., 1900, pp. 42, 119. In some of these are given letters of Green appearing in the _New England Palladium_ and _Columbian Centinel_, of Boston, and the _Medical Repository and Review of American Publications on Medicine, Surgery and the Auxiliary Branches of Science_, of New York. Green also published a translation of de l'Epee's main work and extracts from his other writings. A review of "_Vox Oculis Subjecta_" appeared in the _Gentleman's Magazine_, Sept., 1783, and in the _Boston Magazine_, Dec., 1784, Jan., 1785. [168] Report of New York Institution, 1843, p. 17; _Annals_, ix., 1857, p. 168. [169] At this time the United States and England were at war, and Braidwood's adventure received official notice in a permit from the Commissary General of Prisoners to the Marshal of Virginia. [170] Braidwood was in communication with the promoters of the schools now being organized in Hartford and New York. [171] On these schools, see History of Virginia School, 1893, p. 3; Report, 1853, p. 25; Report of New York Institution, 1856, p. 17; _Annals_, ix., 1857, p. 170; xxi., 1876, p. 130; _Association Review_, ii., 1900, pp. 257, 385, 489; v., 1903, p. 400. In the last are given advertisements and notices concerning the school from the Richmond _Enquirer_, the Petersburg _Republican_, and _Niles' Weekly Register_, of Baltimore. [172] Among those who had given the matter thought was Dr. William Thornton of Philadelphia, who in 1793 published "Cadmus: a Treatise on the Elements of Written Language", there being an appendix on "A Mode of Teaching the Deaf, or Surd, and Consequently Dumb, to Speak". Transactions of American Philosophical Society, iii., p. 262, as cited in _Association Review_, ii., 1900, p. 113. See also _ibid._, v., 1903, p. 406; _Annals_, i., 1848, p. 190. He was the first writer in America upon the education of the deaf.