Correspondence with Van Wyck Brooks, 1940-1965.

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...

Thomson, Polly

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Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959

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Gladys Harding Brooks (1892-1959) was an Abilene, Kansas, native and a highschool friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower. From the description of Brooks, Gladys Harding, 1892-1959 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10610145 Gladys Brooks was Charlie Brooks's stepmother, the second wife of Van Wyck Brooks. From the description of Correspondence to Charles Van Wyck Brooks, 1947-1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 19173223...