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HELEN KELLER 1951 Typed Letter Signed

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

HELEN KELLER.
January 25, 1951, 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 my deaf-blind fellows are receiving constructive help for the first time in the history of America. This work, now nearly nation-wide in scope, is being carried forward as one of the many services of the American Foundation for the Blind with which I have been allied for twenty-seven years...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 excellent content. The letter is offered together with the original transmittal envelope, 5.75" x 4.5" as well as a 5.5" x 4.25", 4 page printed brochure for Keller's foundation bearing a portrait of her on the cover. The lot also includes the self-addressed stamped envelope, measuring 5.5" x 4.5", for a donation addressed to "MISS HELEN KELLER 15 West 16th Street, New York 11, N.Y." (4 items).

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