Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1940.

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Correspondence to Franz Werfel, 1940.

Appeal letter on behalf of the "American Rescue Ship Mission," a project initiated by the United American Spanish Aid Committee, with the avowed goal of providing transportation to Mexico for Spanish refugees being held in Vichy France.

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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968

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Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968) devoted her life to bettering the education and treatment of the blind, the deaf, and the nonverbal, and was a pioneer in educating the public in the prevention of blindness in newborns. Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880. When Helen Keller was 19 months old she became ill with Scarlet Fever, which resulted in her becoming blind and deaf. In her autobiography The Story of My Life, a book she first wrote in 1903 at the age of 23, she desc...