[3] In 1840, she graduated with the first class of Lexington Normal School (now Framingham State University)[4] and married Boston varnish gum importer Edwin Lamson (1811-1876) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 22, 1846, her twenty-fourth birthday.
[3] Lamson worked at the Perkins Institute for the Blind under superintendent Samuel Gridley Howe.
[6][7] When Lamson left her position at the Perkins Institute, Howe wrote that Lamson was an "able and excellent teacher...Indeed, to Miss Swift and Miss [Sarah] Wight belong, far more than to any other persons, the pure satisfaction of having been instrumental in the beautiful development of Laura's character.
The book reportedly drew heavily from journals kept by Lamson during her time as a teacher at the Perkins Institute.
In this preface, Lamson writes, "My aim will be simply to state facts, and in making selections from the daily reports of her teachers to omit nothing which can be of service in any department of science.