AutographsHelen Keller Seeks Funds for a Committee on the Deaf-blind



HELEN KELLER.
April 25, 1950, Typed Letter Signed, "Helen Keller," in pencil on watermarked, personal stationery, New York, one page, measuring 11" x 8.5", Choice Extremely Fine. Her letter, addressed to a "Mr. Luhrs", contains an appeal for funds for the "American Foundation for the Blind," in part: "I am indeed happy to inform you that a Committee on the Deaf-blind of America has been started. It is one of the departments of the American Foundation for the Blind with which I have worked for twenty-seven years All that time there has burned within me an unceasing pain because the problems of the doubly handicapped remain for the most part unsolved, and I have made one attempt after another in their behalf...Try to imagine, if you can, the anguish and horror you would experience bowed down by the twofold weight of blindness and deafness... Still throbbing with natural emotions and desires, you would feel through a sense of touch the existence of a living world, and desperately but vainly would you seek an escape into its healing light. All your pleasures would vanish in a dreadful monotony of silent days... The keenest touch cannot break their immobility. More than any other physically fettered group, they need right teaching and constructive procedures to reclaim them to normal society..." Keller's signature is carefully written at the bottom of the page, measuring over 2" long. A heartfelt letter, with superb content. The letter is offered together with the original transmittal envelope, 5.75" x 4.5". (2 items).