This Bible was published by Samuel Gridley Howe and was one of the first to print the text in raised letters so that people with visual impairments could read it. Howe was a physician, abolitionist, reformer, and husband of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” He became an advocate for the education of the blind and, in 1829, became the founding director of the famous Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. He developed a “line letter” system that allowed people to read by running their fingers over English words that were raised off the surface of the page. He printed his first “line letter” Bible in 1842. This later copy was published in 1898 by the American Bible Society using the same technique.