Where can I find copies of Louis Braille’s homework assignments, writings, letters and old newspaper articles?
We often hear this question from students who need primary resources for a report about Louis Braille.To our knowledge, Louis Braille did not write his homework assignments because there was no practical way for him to do so. At that time, students who were blind learned by listening to the lessons and memorizing them. Louis Braille was fifteen years old when he first presented his raised dot method of reading and writing to students and teachers at the school he attended. The students immediately recognized its value.The few writings by Louis Braille that we know of were primarily technical explanations of his raised dot method of reading and writing.A new biography, Louis Braille: A Touch of Genius, by C. Michael Mellor, contains photos and text of some of Louis Braille’s letters.The braille method of reading and writing that Louis Braille developed did not become widely used until after his death. There was no mention of Louis Braille’s death in the Paris newspapers of 1852.
