Transcription:
2 of the wound or its exact direction sight was completely gone from the injured eye for the first few days my physician
said it would be ever gone but I was surprised to find that on the fourth or fifth day I could see a little with it sight
con- tinued to increase for a few days but for the last three weeks it has not percep illegible increased or diminished I
called in a Dr Parvin lately, said to be a very skillful illegible list of large experience both here and in Europe He said
that he thought the iris permanently injured - that the crystatine lens was not injured. That of course my two eyes would
not work to- gether and that on the whole my chances of distinct vision were not good. But the bare possibility of anything
like full sight is now my illegible staining hope, When the wound was made, about 1/3 of a teaspoonful 3 of fluid like
the white of an egg flowed out upon my fingers aqueus fluid I suppose The eye has not lost its natural appearance I can see
sufficiently well with it, to avoid the furniture etc in walking through a room can almost in full light recognize some of
my friends But cannot distinguish one letter from another of common type I would like to hear Dr Carrs opinion of my case
When I received illegible blow I could not feel any pain or faintness because the tre- mendous thought glared full on me that
my right eye was lost I could gladly have died on the spot because I did not feel that I could have heart to look at any flower
again But this is not so for I wish to try some cloudy day to walk to the woods where I am sure some of springs sweet first
born is waiting