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KELLER, Helen. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient about her family. [Tuscumbia, AL,
KELLER, Helen. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient about her family. [Tuscumbia, AL,
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KELLER, Helen Adams (1880-1968). Autograph note signed ("Helen A. Keller") to an unidentified recipient. [Tuscumbia, AL, 23 July 1889].

One page, 8vo, in pencil in her square hand, some minor creasing and soiling, a few short tears, one reinforced verso.

AN EARLY HELEN KELLER LETTER. Included in the American Foundation for the Blind exhibit "The Story of My Life by Helen Keller," who date the note to 23 July 1889. In it, she notes that her father, Arthur Henley Keller (1836-1896) who was editor of the Tuscumbia North Alabamian and a former captain in the Confederate Army, along with her two elder half-brothers James McDonald Keller (1867-1906) and William Simpson “Simp” Keller (1874-1925) “have gone to shoot the pigeons for us to eat.”

From Hadley, formerly known as Hadley School for the Blind
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KELLER, Helen. Autograph note signed to an unidentified recipient about her family. [Tuscumbia, AL,

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