Lot 4447
Keller, Helen (1880-1968) Blind, deaf, mute author. Typed Letter Signed in pencil, on personal stationery, New York, Feb. 3, 1949, one page, quarto. To Mrs. Friedman, requesting financial support for the Committee on the Deaf-blind of American, a newly-established department of the American Foundation for the Blind, with whom Miss Keller had worked for 24 years. In part: "…All that time there has burned within me an unceasing pain because the problems of the doubly handicapped remain for the most part unsolved….Now that there is a Committee to study their needs, I am writing to you because it offers a wonderful opportunity for your noble impulses -- effective aid to the most appealing and loneliest group of human beings on earth….Try to imagine…the anguish and horror you would experience bowed down by the twofold weight of blindness and deafness….All your pleasures would vanish in a dreadful monotony of silent days….I doubt if even the most imaginative and tender normal people can realize the peculiar cruelty of such a situation…." Light creasing in right margin, not affecting the signature. Excellent content.
Estimated Value $750 - 1,000.
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