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Adelia M. Hoyt memoir and photographs
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UNFOLDING YEARS, 107 Braille Transcribing at the Library of Congress was now included in the new Division of Books for the Adult Blind, and under Miss Alice Rohrback it specialized in aiding students. Many of the Red Cross braillists throughout the country continued their work, mostly as a local project assisting libraries, blind students and other individuals in their immediate vicinities. The war news was most depressing and had its effect upon my sister. She would listen to the news broadcasts and read the papers constantly. She could hardly bear to have me out of her sight, and I regret now that I ever left her even though it seemed necessary at the time, for on my return I would find her almost in a state of nervous collapse. Since the spring of 1943 we had a very good colored woman with us named Lillian. She gave us only part time but was most efficient. The next winter passed uneventfully and the spring of 1944 was at hand. Easter was on the 9th of April, a beautiful day. For a long time Emma had been unable to attend church and on this lovely Sunday afternoon we sat on the porch for an hour or more. She seemed to enjoy this little outing. On April 25th Emma told me she was not feeling well and complained of being very tired. She had had chronic bronchitis for years and it was now more acute. The next day I persuaded her to remain in bed and I sent for the doctor. One former family physician had retired and the one we had since had now gone to war. In my last illness I had called in a doctor recommended by one of our neighbors. Neither sister nor I like the man but he had brought me through and now in lieu of anyone else I called him. From a medical standpoint he may have been all right, but his sick room manners were atrocious. He was uncouth to an extreme, loud voiced and brutally blunt. My sister took a decided aversion to him and evidently the dislike was mutual. He stormed at her and threatened to send her to a sanitarium if she did not obey his orders. All this tended to aggravate rather than help her condition
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UNFOLDING YEARS, 107 Braille Transcribing at the Library of Congress was now included in the new Division of Books for the Adult Blind, and under Miss Alice Rohrback it specialized in aiding students. Many of the Red Cross braillists throughout the country continued their work, mostly as a local project assisting libraries, blind students and other individuals in their immediate vicinities. The war news was most depressing and had its effect upon my sister. She would listen to the news broadcasts and read the papers constantly. She could hardly bear to have me out of her sight, and I regret now that I ever left her even though it seemed necessary at the time, for on my return I would find her almost in a state of nervous collapse. Since the spring of 1943 we had a very good colored woman with us named Lillian. She gave us only part time but was most efficient. The next winter passed uneventfully and the spring of 1944 was at hand. Easter was on the 9th of April, a beautiful day. For a long time Emma had been unable to attend church and on this lovely Sunday afternoon we sat on the porch for an hour or more. She seemed to enjoy this little outing. On April 25th Emma told me she was not feeling well and complained of being very tired. She had had chronic bronchitis for years and it was now more acute. The next day I persuaded her to remain in bed and I sent for the doctor. One former family physician had retired and the one we had since had now gone to war. In my last illness I had called in a doctor recommended by one of our neighbors. Neither sister nor I like the man but he had brought me through and now in lieu of anyone else I called him. From a medical standpoint he may have been all right, but his sick room manners were atrocious. He was uncouth to an extreme, loud voiced and brutally blunt. My sister took a decided aversion to him and evidently the dislike was mutual. He stormed at her and threatened to send her to a sanitarium if she did not obey his orders. All this tended to aggravate rather than help her condition
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