May 2020 Auction Ends Thursday, May 28th, 5pm Pacific
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/28/2020
Helen Keller typed letter signed, dated 18 June 1954 on her personal stationery. Essentially a fundraising letter for the American Foundation for the Blind, Keller's prose rivals the Great Romantics in her beautiful use of language. Letter reads in part, ''...It has been said truly that good deeds are angels. There is nothing, I am sure, more previous than the satisfaction of knowing, as you move through life's uncertainties, that you have sent such angels into the future to cheer sad lives or strengthen the brave who refuse to let fate overcome them. That is what gives me courage to write to you. / As you may know, destiny has placed me among the co-workers with blind persons determined to hew a path out of the miseries of isolation and make good their place in society...With deep emotion I have often learned that people looking towards the Valley of the Shadow remembered the blind in their bequests. Such beneficent acts are angels who keep on working for them, take shape and beauty in ever growing aid to those who tread narrow dark ways...[signed in pencil] Helen Keller''. Two page letter on two sheets measures 7.25'' x 10.5''. Folds, else near fine.
Helen Keller Letter Signed -- ''...destiny has placed me among the co-workers with blind persons determined to hew a path out of the miseries of isolation...''
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